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Globe editorial: A reminder, Mr. Ford, that you’re a conservative (archive.is)
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The proposal for a 60-kilometre tunnel is emblematic of the hollowness at the centre of the government’s ideology. It would cost some unknown tens of billions of dollars and have little effect on congestion. None of that matters to Mr. Ford. He wants to be seen to be on the side of drivers and that makes it worth any price.

It would be nice if Mr. Ford was as committed to some of his own past promises. In 2018, he pledged to cut income taxes for the middle class. He said then the move – cutting the second tax bracket from 9.15 per cent to 7.32 – would save families as much as $786 a year. That cut never materialized.

Instead Mr. Ford has made a series of populist pocketbook gestures, such as eliminating the fee to renew licence plates. Then he sent $200 cheques which landed in Ontarians’ mailboxes as the election campaign was underway.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-a-reminder-mr-ford-that-youre-a-conservative/

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm fucking salty that that ignorant fuck got back in. I guess thats what happens when you call a snap election, give no competing platforms a platform to run on, and send out ~~rebate~~ bribe cheques in the mail, during the coldest time of the year when you have the least amount of people who want to vote, actually vote.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I'm not happy but I'm not salty. It was pretty clearly going to happen. The opposition didn't show up.

Their party platforms on their websites were basically: 'Ford's a big meanie and is forcing us to suddenly pretend like we have ideas for the province'.

Like they literally said, that they didn't have adequate time to prepare and hash everything in their plans out. Theyre the opposition parties. They should always have this prepared. It is their literal jobs to have an alternative concrete plan to the current government's.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Yup. After watching the debate I began predicting another Ford majority and another record-low voter turnout. Glad I was wrong about the latter.

I've always voted NDP, but this was the first time in twenty years of voting that I didn't feel great about it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Yeah. I feel like the opposition parties not showing up is a serious problem in Canadian politics.

Here in NB, for the past five years, the official opposition Liberals had little to say. The Green Party leader (David Coon) did a great job of criticizing the premier, as basically a one man army.

The federal NDP is basically AWOL. Last time I looked, they didn't post much on YouTube, and they don't get much coverage from media. I'm not sure if that's because media doesn't cover them, or they're bad at publicity.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He's really not though, and neither is Trump. They're the face of their parties, but being the PC leader was just another way for Doug the drug dealer to get elected somewhere else after his brother made such a hot mess of municipal politics. He's a brand. He bends any way the winds of popularity blow him. Probably many of the dyed in the wool conservatives of his party don't like it, but the ones who want a job will hold their nose and go along.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Agreed.