steveintoronto
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Except they don't. Far from it, save for your eyes. It wouldn't be a story if they did, would it?It’s understandable that foreigners would view Ontario as nothing more than a two bit imitation of the US, but that’s no excuse for us to do so, however much we may disdain Ford.
Perhaps the point has alluded you, rampant preconceptions do that, but Canada is viewed as distinctly different from the US in US, UK and the world press. And that's why the parallel is so shocking and newsworthy.
Perhaps you haven't noticed, you would have to be an international reader to, but rightly or wrongly, JT is the darling of the western press, and along with Merkel, considered to be the remaining flag bearer for the progressive liberal centre with Obama's demise. Not to mention CETA and TPP.
It is precisely because Canada is considered distinctly different that 'these' headlines are appearing in the informed, outward looking international press. The last big shock for them was Rob Ford. A shock for us too...
Toronto Sun? Not so much...
Here's how The Economist (that bastion of leftie, tax-loving, anti-corporate "rot") sees it:
https://www.economist.com/news/amer...-anti-elitist-politicians-canada-are-courtingA different kind of populismAnti-elitist politicians in Canada are courting immigrants
That is no reason for liberals to be complacent
Print edition | The Americas
Apr 19th 2018| OTTAWA
EVER since Doug Ford became the leader of Ontario’s centre-right Progressive Conservative Party on March 10th, he has been asked if he is Canada’s Donald Trump. The two have much in common. Big, beefy and blond, Mr Ford inherited a large product-labelling company, yet campaigns against elites who “drink champagne with their pinkies in the air”. He loathes regulation and taxes, and vows to repeal Ontario’s carbon cap-and-trade system. Two books about his late brother Rob, Toronto’s crack-smoking mayor, paint the surviving Ford as impulsive, undisciplined, indiscreet and a bully.
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Of course it was written by an elitist:
http://www.madelainedrohan.com/Madelaine Drohan is the Canada correspondent for The Economist. For the last 40 years, she has covered business and politics in Canada, Europe, Africa and Asia. In 2016, she became a senior fellow at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. In 2015-2016 she was the Prime Ministers of Canada fellow at the Public Policy Forum.
She is the author of The 9 Habits of Highly Successful Resource Economies: Lessons for Canada, a research report that she wrote in 2012 for the Canadian International Council.
Her book, Making a Killing: How and why corporations use armed force to do business, was published in 2003 by Random House of Canada and in 2004 by The Lyons Press in the United States. It won the Ottawa Book Award and was short-listed for the National Business Book of the Year Award in 2004.
When possible, she conducts journalism workshops for media in Africa and Southeast Asia, with a special focus on business and investigative journalism.
She was awarded a Reuters Fellowship at Oxford University in 1998, and the Hyman Solomon Award for Excellence in Public Policy Journalism in 2001. She was a 2004-2005 Media Fellow at the Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership and the 2004-2005 Journalist in Residence at Carleton University.
She has sat as a volunteer director on the boards of the North-South Institute, Transparency International Canada and Partnership Africa Canada, where she was also president. She lives in Ottawa.
Doug reads that as "Blah, blah, blah, blah...She lives in Ottawa.". So she must drink tea and hang out with the Governors-General and go to costume balls and spend taxpayers money.
"I'll cut her job and the position of G-G if I'm elected!"
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