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MTown said:
Please! I swear I'll stop being a jaded old soul if we get a minority government.
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I agree. There is no way Premier Doug could possibly govern in the minority. Bullying is alls he's got, and bullying don't work work when the folks you are bullying can kick you to the curb.
 
Roy's Square said:
I agree. There is no way Premier Doug could possibly govern in the minority. Bullying is alls he's got, and bullying don't work work when the folks you are bullying can kick you to the curb.
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"The elites have prevented me from pulling efficiencies out my arse, folks."
 
About the drama teacher post...

I think you have a valid reason, Justin Trudeau is a shadow of the man his father was in experience, intelligence and leadership and his style is mostly based on virtue signaling and imaging.

So, Ford is rather simplistic but frankly our politics in general in Canada has gotten very shallow in general like the US.

The difference between Canada and the USA is that very racist rhetoric would not work but simplistic and populist rhetoric would easily sell in Canada and why I think Ford will win easily.
 
MTown said:
Out of luck. Newsletter went out of publication over a decade ago. I mostly just talk to myself now.
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What about the voices?
 
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Roy's Square said:
I agree. There is no way Premier Doug could possibly govern in the minority. Bullying is alls he's got, and bullying don't work work when the folks you are bullying can kick you to the curb.
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But as we have seen last time with Robbie, hopefully, sooner than later to prevent such damage.

Anyway, bullies are a minority, what do you have against minorities?:p
 
Ontario Progressive Conservative Party leader Doug Ford reacted to the release of Ontario’s so-called ‘Sunshine List’ Friday, calling it an example of the “reckless spending policies” of Kathleen Wynne’s government.
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From 680 News, at this link.



Doug Ford’s Minimum Wage Scheme Will Cost Workers $800 /Year

From north99.org, at this link:

Doug Ford, Ontario’s new Conservative leader, has announced his plan for the minimum wage — and it’s not good news for workers.

While Ontario’s minimum wage is scheduled to rise to $15 on January 1, 2019, Ford has pledged to cancel this increase.
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All for the people; hmmm...
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Doug Ford and the revival of the war on the car

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Take heed, Toronto commuters and motorists. With Doug Ford leading the Progressive Conservative party, the "war on the car" will once again be declared. Time to fasten your safety belts.

Ford is an avowed motorist who seems to see anti-car conspiracy everywhere. In 2012, he called a proposed light-rail line evidence of the "war on the car" and he has cited the recent King Street pilot as another example. For him, bike lanes and streetcar projects are attacks on regular people, irresponsible experiments cooked up by the lefty, loonie, bicycle-wielding downtown elite. To many observers, Ford's "war on the car" rhetoric is proof of his small-minded, dangerous, right-wing thinking.

The war on the car, which Ford happily fought against before alongside his late brother, ex-Toronto mayor Rob Ford, has traditionally been waged in print and on television and social media. Each side derides the other. The "progressives" paint those who prioritize the automobile over bikes and public transit as Trumpian hicks hell-bent on destroying the planet. The "regular working folk," meanwhile, dismiss bike-lane enthusiasts as champagne-socialist-snowflake space cadets. It's survival of the smuggest.


Politically, this conflict favours Ford because, when he says "war on the car," he really means "war on the suburbs." He's said as much. "Some people just can't take public transit," he said last year on a CP24 interview after the King Street pilot was launched. "Some people out in Scarborough and Etobicoke, they can't just easily hop on transit." The more critics attack him on this issue, the more popular he will become with suburban voters, the same voters who made his brother mayor, the same voters he needs to win in June.

You can call Ford many things, but stupid isn't one of them. Nobody should be surprised by his ascendancy to Tory leader. It is likely Ford realized he had zero chance of defeating Toronto Mayor John Tory, but has a shot against the anabolic unpopularity of Premier Kathleen Wynne. He tested his current provincial platform in a 2016 byelection when he helped get Progressive Conservative candidate Raymond Cho elected MPP in Scarborough-Rouge River. The Tories used three wedge issues to win: transit, hydro rates and the sex-ed curriculum. He must know that transit is a contentious issue he can use to his benefit.


So, as the election gets under way, once the war on the car is renewed, Ontarians will have to decide whether or not to fight. Pacifism is the best choice.

For the anti-car crowd, for instance, that means stop demonizing the suburbs and please, pretty please, stop comparing Toronto to Copenhagen. Copenhagen started its migration away from the car in the 1970s, and its population is a quarter of Toronto's. We will never catch up. A better fit for the GTA would be Bogota's TransMilenio, a bus rapid-transit system that moves 2.4 million people per day. For the record, I hear Bogota has a lot to offer and Copenhagen isn't exactly without its flaws. Denmark's Prime Minister just put forward a "ghetto plan" that would allow police to double punishments in the city's underprivileged areas (but hey, look at all those bike paths).

For the "common sense" car folks, that means admitting that the status quo is a disaster. It means admitting that bike lanes do not cause congestion. It means admitting that while gridlock is a drag, it's nicer to be seated in your air-conditioned vehicle than jammed in an overcrowded streetcar. It means admitting that car fatalities are not the unavoidable cost of getting around but man-made tragedies that can be stopped. It means accepting that increasing your car commute by 10 minutes is worth it if it alleviates the commutes of those who opt to take public transit.

Or we can keep firing sanctimonious tweets at each other from the parapets and then gasp in wonder as Ford is anointed our new premier.
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...and a War on the Bicycle.
 
sixrings said:
Just got home from dinner and turned on the news. Doug Ford wants to find efficiencies. 6 billion worth. I love buzzwords with zero probability to happen.
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"Efficiencies" are just cuts that politicians don't want to admit to during an election.

And to be honest, I actually don't blame Ford for doing this. How did Hudak saying he was going to layoff thousands of public servants turn out? Incidentally, the Liberal commissioned Drummond report suggested a similar approach to balancing the books.

As Kim Campbell once said, "An election is no time to discuss serious issues." Politicians like Ford are what we deserve because our public is ill disposed to discuss issues with any maturity. The public wants books balanced, but doesn't want cuts or tax increases. Or they don't mind cuts, as long as it doesn't impact their lifestyle. Etc.

I despise the current attitude. But it is what it is.
 
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