Watch out Doug Ford, the liberals are going to get you. You pulled out all stops to win the two provincial by-elections last week. Local radio ads for your government must have run heavy in Toronto and Ottawa. You did personal canvassing with the media in tow. It was a hell of a time to campaign in that heat.
But you might as well have stayed in Muskoka. The liberals took both ridings. And what else can you expect? People are getting to know you. They are getting to know you are a phony. You don’t care about the people in Ontario. You only care about Doug Ford. Do you dare call another by-election? Unless you change the numbers needed to be recognized as a party again, the liberals will gain some more strength soon. You are not going to get through the next three years unscathed.
And, you, premier Ford, are going to learn that premiers have to answer to the people. As an old con artist (P.T. Barnum, maybe) was accused of saying, “You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.”
Every day, more people in Ontario are realizing that you disrespect them by lying to them. They are realizing that you are just a huckster, selling them out. You lied about protecting the Greenbelt. You bluffed your way into the premier’s office, promising to do a good job for us. Do you remember the foolishness of “a buck a beer”? You are letting us down. You are stupidly denying the problems of global warming. You are debasing Medicare to help your friends in making money. You are not interested in the problems of the sick. You see them as an opportunity for someone to make money.
And, you obviously have no interest in higher education. You turned a private schooled person loose as education minister. You were out there making promises to throw money at fixing things but somehow much of the money was never spent.
Recently, your attorney general tried to sneak in a new generation of conservative ‘King’s Counsels.’ This was stopped 37 years ago by a premier who said it was just a cheap sop for lawyers. And you bald-faced told the media you did not know about it. Are you telling us that it was never on a cabinet agenda? Liar, liar, pants on fire!
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