Just how dumb is Ontario premier Doug Ford? We all know why and how he is screwing with our Greenbelt. We have understood his close relationships with developers. It dates back to his brother’s time in the Toronto mayor’s chair. Doug was the understudy at the time—sitting in Rob Ford’s former councillor seat.
That must have been when Doug got the political bug. How could he help but not jump into the race for conservative party leader when Patrick Brown had tanked. Here he was a one-time councillor and a failed mayoralty candidate. Why not go for the brass ring of provincial leadership? And then you are king of the hill!
Ford blustered his way through the 2018 provincial election. Who knows what the results would have been if liberal Kathleen Wynne had not quit before election day?
There were lots of missteps for Doug in that first term. The idea of the provincial police providing him with a travelling bedroom, hardly flew, and his choice of police commissioner was a no-no. The pandemic was unexpected and catastrophic. You had to admit that the premier played his role. Enjoy the lockdowns and wear your mask the public was told. Needless to say, healthcare workers did not enjoy their life with that fatuous ass misdirecting things.
Highway 413 came out of the woodwork to help Doug’s developer friends. Nobody could seem to explain how these developers had determined the locations of all the cloverleafs in this highway from nowhere to nowhere. The liberals had ditched the highway before it had seen the light of day. He had to tie it to the Bradford Bypass—at least the bypass had some supporters.
But despite the bumps on the road for Ford in that first four-year term, the opposition had nothing to bring to the table for the second go round. The liberals continued in their dismal non-party status after experimenting with a non-leader. The new democrats had to admit that their leader was no panacea and she demoted herself to the municipal field.
Ideally, the liberals and new democrats could merge and that would guarantee us the end of the Ford era at Queen’s Park. They could call themselves liberal-democrats. I wonder if they are smart enough?
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