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Ontarians: Don’t let any talking point or any physical threat keep you away from the polls this time. His win is not inevitable. Please, show up and TRY to vote Ford out.
I want to get behind his Captain Canada act as much as the next person, but the media coverage has been absolutely maddening! DoFo is always patriotic when he’s campaigning.
We know calling a snap election in the middle of this absolute chaos is bullshit. Mr MZO, Notwithstanding Clause, omnibus bills, continually counter-suing any court decision in our favour, who took away education workers’ right to strike just to show they could, made rent control a mystical thing of the past and on and on. This twit wants a Stronger Mandate? To do what, exactly?
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"God bless the President and don’t get me wrong. Full disclosure: I’m a big Republican.” - literally DoFo
“Donald Trump’s a business man. He’s a very successful business man. I think he’s a marketing genius. They needed change down in the US. Obama has been an absolute disaster in my opinion in the US. I run a business, the healthcare costs are going through the roof for not only the businesses, but the people.” - DoFo
“I would love to see Canada be the 51st state. The Canadian citizens, […] They’d have much better health coverage. I think the people of Canada would like it.” - Trump, Jan 24
DoFo looks for what gets him votes and does the thing. I’ve, thus far, seen no other principles behind this man, maybe except for his obsession with Toronto. Of course he’ll play Captain Canada cause why would you not play that to get people to think they can rely on you? He targeted bike lanes because Ontario is car-centric and most people are forced to be motorists, who are generally inconvenienced by bike lanes in the short term, and it’ll get him the support he wants. He struck down education workers’ rights to strike, because families are inconvenienced, and there are a lot more families than there are education workers. 200 bucks rebate with no regards to the cost of actually sending out that money, just because it’ll most probably get him the support he wants.
You’re not wrong. It’s so. SO blatant. “Mom’s cheesecake” blatant.
Maybe OT, but I think the car-vs.-bike obsession is entirely manufactured and every time a politician stands in the way of bike lanes and public transit, they’re virtue signalling to the O&G lobby. Same with being overly weird about plastic bags, utensils and packaging (petroleum byproduct) and how much we need them.
On bill 28, he and his gleefully instituted it because his funders and peers want to get rid of unions. Remember that “we have very well paid educators who should feel lucky they even have jobs - paidforbythegovernmentofontario” shit on the radio that August? And I saw them jeering at the peanut gallery when they passed it (Ford was, no surprise, at the cottage or some shit). That whole debacle was DoFo’s owners testing to see what workers rights they could get away with removing by fiat.
Maybe that’s why he wants a “stronger mandate.” The furry wee gods help us all…
If there’s a consistent principle, it’s looking for opportunities to enrich himself and his buddies.
I’m not hearing anything from the NDP, and I’m getting a lot of ads from the Liberals about how Doug Ford is bad, not nothing about why I should vote for them.
This is just going to be a repeat unless they change their strategies.
Unfortunately, that’s all political ads these days. “The other side is bad…” with nothing about how the people can be better served by the party behind the ad.
Don’t forget, he’s still under a criminal investigation over trying to bulldoze the greenbelt, and that’s before his latest legislation to bulldoze part of the greenbelt to build his bypass for a highway that doesn’t even reach anywhere near capacity.
That hat of his that says Canada is not for sale is on backwards, as Ford is the single biggest proponent for selling off Canada in Ontario, and he’s been doing that the entire time he’s been our premier, and to the detriment of all Ontarians.
Frankly, it’s insane how he has any support when he’s made everybody’s life worse, especially for rural Ontarians when he’s entirely neglected them in favour of focusing all his energies tearing up Toronto.
Spot on. This was our Premier right before he started cancelling contracts for windmills we’d already started building, iirc.
Doug Ford may talk a big talk on being the leader of Team Canada, his money-grabbing motives makes him the weak link when it comes to walking the walk. He’s shown himself to be lobbied easily with a big enough donation like the stag and doe party, and he _absolutely _ would fold if some prominent American lobbyists, like the one who has donated substantially towards a Trump presidency makes a relatively small donation to either craft loopholes in any proposed retaliatory measures or just completely back down on the bluff.
Well did anyone actually expect this clown to have an gram of introspection or awareness of anything besides his imagined, perceived worth?
