Bruce Arthur: Now is the time to redraw our city. We need more room to breathe, not less

When John Tory became mayor, Toronto seemed a daunting task. The subway system was as inadequate as the tax base. Traffic was hell, housing was increasingly unaffordable, and the history of this city - years of small-minded Protestantism that produced a three-piece-suited civic straitjacket - had conspired to make this city a tricky thing to transform.