Toronto Star, Oct. 17, 2010

... Burton said a key question in the race “is whether we’re going to keep moving forward, controlling growth and getting our finances under control as I’ve done, or go back and have unbridled growth. We had fallen behind on facilities and things as basic as road maintenance, and I’ve reversed that.” He said that over Mulvale’s last two terms, taxpayer debt had grown from $10 million to $24 million. He said he cut it by nine per cent, to $22 million, in his single term. ... “There’s no doubt in my mind that if she continued to be mayor, the town would be different than it is now,” Burton said. “I was elected with a mandate for change and I implemented change. Our rate of tax increases was lower than hers. I reduced taxpayer debt and made developers pay more. “I was elected by a population that was tired of waiting.”

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