Delgrande

What Mike Del Grande said

By Toronto Sun

  • Piggy-gate

    Piggy-gate
    "Whoever took my pig, give him back, thank you."
    "I just hope he doesn't get mailed back to me a slice of bacon at a time. I'm waiting for a ransom note."
    "Don't hurt Piggy. We're willing to look at a ransom demand, but just remember, we don't have a lot of money here."
    - Del Grande after his piggy bank, brought in by the budget chief to remind councillors to save money, was stolen. <a href='http://www.torontosun.com/2011/06/16/prodigal-piggy-bank-back-home' >"Piggy" was returned a few days lat

  • On saving Riverdale Farm

    On saving Riverdale Farm
    "Since we have animals there and they are hatching eggs and they've got pigs, etc., there, there will be an opportunity then to breed animals and (sell) them to a local farm. There are some opportunities there that could be looked at and look at the operating model a little bit different."
    - Del Grande in July 2011 on possible ways to keep the city's Riverdale Farm open

  • War of words

    "I've got family, I've got kids, I've got grandchildren, I'm not interested in leaving burning babies in their cribs because there is no fire service or women being raped because there is no police services."
    - Del Grande in September 2011 during a war of words with the Toronto Professional Fire Fighters' Association after he suggested in a Toronto Sun story that the alternative to budget cuts in all departments would be to cut the fire and police service by 50% like in some U.S. jurisdictions.

  • Fluoride flop

    Fluoride flop
    "It's not the 1940s and 1930s or whatever where people's teeth were rotting, etc. There is toothpaste that has fluoride in them, there is all kinds of other things."
    - Del Grande in November 2011 after he lost a surprise bid at budget committee to get fluoride removed from the city's water to save $2 million.

  • Del Grande lays it on the line

    Del Grande lays it on the line
    “If at the end of the day council wants to blow $5 million, $10 million, $20 million, $50 million, that’s them. I can tell you — guaranteed, guaranteed, for sure — they won’t have me anymore as budget chief. I have no interest at all under that scenario."
    - Del Grande in December 2012 threatening to quit if councillors don't rein in spending