NP: Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s war with the elites has several fronts. He’s battling teachers on sex ed, environmentalists and economists on carbon pricing, transit boffins on light rail and most of the medical community on safe-injection sites. There’s little evidence Ford gives half a fig about sex ed, personally. But his aversion to “job-killing carbon taxes,” “streetcars” (as he calls any form of surface rail) and helping opioid addicts shoot up safely seems to be immovable.
“I believe in supporting people, getting them help,” he said on the campaign trail in April. “I ask anyone out there: if your son, daughter or loved one ever had an addiction, would you want them to go in a little area and do more drugs?”
“I’m dead against that,” he said. His government installed a moratorium on new safe-injection sites.
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