I think it's more telling that his approval hasn't risen considering the victim/underdog role the right has cast him in. That tells me people aren't buying his rhetoric.

Read her twitter. The amount of mental gymnastics this woman does on a daily basis to hold these opinions must be incredible.

Maybe our companies don't have enough of a stake in this country to keep the jobs here? Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Caterpillar just move their operations from London to a state that is fairly anti-union? I would agree that the issue isn't exactly that our labour is too expensive, but...

He's not that clever. You know when your dog does something bad and gets chastised then goes and shits on the floor in protest? This is Rob Ford shitting on the floor.

How many manufacturing companies in Germany and Japan are foreign owned vs those in Canada? I'm curious.

Manufacturing left because our labour costs are high, how do we compensate for that? subsidies?

I'll conceed that, however, the point I was making was that loss of exports to the US will harm China's economy.

China is an export economy with a very small domestic market. If the US is done then China won't be far behind.

Ford told the suburbs what they wanted to hear.

And it was a hard lesson to learn.

He did have a good record being decent with money, and spending his office budget wisely. However, what alternative was there? Smitherman came with just as much baggage and Joe Pantalone did had little chance.

I don't believe fiscal conservatives actually exist. We hear the same rhetoric constantly about how lefties are spend spend spend, and yet when we elect conservative parties to power they do the same thing. I voted for Ford based on his record of being responsible with taxpayers dollars. I've...

"To be clear, the Labour Relations Act, 1995 provides the City of Toronto with the ability to implement new terms of employment once the negotiations have broken down and after the 17- day No Board period has expired" Can someone point me to this part of the Labour relations act? I might not...

People thought they were electing a small c conservative, and are now realizing that this is what conservatives are all about.

That is a rather loaded question. I believe in the right to freedom of expression, however, there are limits to how you can exercise that right. Having the right to freedom of expression doesn't give a person carte blanche to troll people on the internet, and since this forum is privately owned...

The Magna Carta has little to do with modern liberty, and it existed largely to protect England's feudal barons by limiting the power of King John. Modern liberty was borne out of the enlightenment. Also you should read about logical fallacies, because your arguments are full of them. If you...

Why is the city not installing their own information kiosks and taking 100% of the profit? Why allow Astral to have the lion's share? The private sector loves to take the government for a ride, and yet Ford complains we don't have a problem generating revenue?

Where do you get 8 centuries of liberty from? Liberty is a relatively modern concept.

Then create a thread arguing the hypocrisy of the CBC. Perceived corruption in the CBC is only peripherally related to Rob Ford, and really has no place in this thread. Either way, I'm sure you're aware that as one of the media the CBC will do whatever it can to grab headlines in much the same...

What exactly was the point of derailing this into an attack on the CBC? What does arguing that the CBC are hypocrites contribute to a discussion on Rob Ford?