NP, McParland: I can’t say for absolute certain, but I’m pretty sure the overwhelming majority of people who voted for Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives in June are pretty pleased with their choice right now.
Ontario’s rookie premier ensured that when, out of a clear blue sky, he revealed he was taking the city’s municipal elections and dumping them by the side of the road. Plans for the vote were well under way, candidates lining up, forms being filled, money raised. Then Ford announced that, instead of 47 squabbling, money-draining, time-wasting city councillors, he would chop the number to 25.
Naturally, great squawking ensued. The beating heart of left-wing Toronto, having long ago decided Ford was the Canadian version of That Awful Man in Washington, is more than ever convinced that Canada’s biggest province has been abandoned to philistines. Elsewhere, outside the great, bumbling, unwieldy, self-absorbed world that is Toronto’s grossly inefficient municipal government, people rolled their eyes, cried “Hallelujah!” and wondered how it could possibly have taken so long.
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