hey also are paid who only stand and wait. In this city, that means the police, lots and lots of them. They can be seen at hanging around just about every festival, construction site, concert, marathon, parade . . . And although they do little, they get paid a lot, between $66.50 and $83.50 an hour.

As organizers of the proposed street closure discovered, it adds up. The cost closing Yonge and Church between Bloor and Queen and Bloor from Parliament to High Park four Sunday mornings, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., comes in at $840,000.

That’s how much it will cost to have a cop at every corner; $210,000 a morning, four mornings.