It may be too late for Councillor Gloria Lindsay Luby to distance herself from Mayor David Miller, according to one of her Etobicoke colleagues on city council.
Lindsay Luby, who represents Etobicoke Centre (Ward 4), resigned from Miller's executive committee, saying she was growing "increasingly frustrated" with the city's direction.
But Doug Holyday -- Lindsay Luby's mayor while they were both on Etobicoke council prior the creation of an amalgamated Toronto on Jan. 1, 1998 -- said she may have supported Miller for too long to be able to distance herself from him now.
"She got elected in central Etobicoke as a fiscal conservative, but she went to City Hall and, in effect, crossed the floor," Holyday said.
He called her a "loyal Miller supporter," who was on the mayor's "socialist team."
But Lindsay Luby denied her move had anything to do with the vote, and she said she isn't worried about it, nor her reputation as a conservative.
"That's what I am. I even carry a card," she said. "I have always had a strong plurality ... I think results speak for themselves."
Lindsay Luby said she made the decision to resign from the mayor's hand-picked executive committee, as well as her chairmanship of the city's government management committee, after this summer's 39-day municipal strike and a decision by senior staff to withhold information about a $200-million accounting error regarding the city's sick-bank liability.
"I have always tried to be a team player because of the need for council to work together," she said. "The mayor wanted me on board because I would bring a different point of view, which I tried to do many, many times."
Miller said Lindsay Luby's decision was "regrettable."
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