You are never sure who is in with Ontario premier Doug Ford. Here he is breaking up the confusion over who does what for whom in Peel Region. He is making Brampton and Mississauga free-standing cities. He has even appointed an expensive group of overseers to make it all happen expeditiously.
We know that Mississauga mayor Bonnie Crombie doesn’t care what Ford does as she is going for the brass ring of Ontario liberal party leader. She wants to get into Queen’s Park where she can go after Doug Ford mano-a-mano, so to speak.
But that leaves Patrick Brown with Brampton as a form of booby prize. And we all know that Patrick has much greater aspirations than just mayor of Brampton.
He still wants to get even with the conservatives on the committee that kicked him out of the last federal conservative leadership race. That guy is so desperate for publicity, I am surprised he wasn’t the judge for the latest hotdog eating contest, or one of the contestants.
But we were all surprised that if Caroline Mulroney can get an instant promotion to Ontario lawyer and a King’s Counsel without bothering to pass the bar admission, why was Patrick overlooked. He is not embarrassed that he graduated from Windsor University and in all those years in politics in Barrie, he never seemed to bother to pass the bar admission to practice law in Ontario. His buddy, Walied Soliman, had acquired the legal credentials to be chair of his law firm and was one of the few who might have deserved having a KC designation—for something other than being a good conservative.
There was a bit of confusion about former premier David Peterson already having a KC designation. He was given that in an era of progressive conservatives in Ontario who gave the designation to the new liberal party leader at Queen’s Park. They had no idea that he would have the support of the new democrats after the election, to push them out of office.
They also did not know that he would cancel all the KC foolishness that had become such a joke to the legal profession.
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