Re: Doug Ford to invoke notwithstanding clause to override judge’s Toronto council ruling
Carjosse:
Ontario elected him with full knowledge of his authoritarian political leanings and his alleged and checkered political and personal past. Now they have to live with their ill-considered electoral decision for the next three to four years plus. The silver lining is that Mr. Ford will likely so discredit right-wing populism (as opposed to right-wing political parties) that sanity will return to Ontario in a few years time, albeit with a huge political hang-over-headache and humiliating regret. Hopefully other Canadian provinces and all Canadians will learn from Ontario's supreme folly and not make the same mistake in their own provincial and in federal elections.
Doug Ford, like most authoritarians, does not hold the Rule of Law in high regard. He, like others of his ilk, prefers the Rule of Man which often morphs into the Rule of the Man. This ideology sees power as a system of personal relationships and not as a system of offices and institutions with clearly defined mandates and limitations. Mr. Ford will try to bend Ontario to his will and will make any political deals necessary in the service of his will. If that means overriding the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, I am sure he is fine with that. That is the danger of following the Rule of Man - all institutional limits to ambition and power are removed or pushed aside in the pursuit of the leader's great cause and all means are acceptable to the weilders of power as they attempt to realise their great projects and ambitions. It was thus with Quebec's Maurice Duplessis in the 1930'e-1950's and it will likely be the same in Ontario at least for the next few years. Ecce Homo Imperator!
Cheers.
Evilroddy.
well...I'm-a-gonna have to call Horse Kaka here.
Eloquent horse kaka...but...you know...
The Toronto municipal government has been expanded steadily for years, without consulting the citizens of Toronto.
If you ask around Toronto, you'll quickly find that most people support a reduction in the number of councilors.
Now, setting aside your obvious disdain for Ford. The fact is, he won a majority in Ontario and he did so because he brought common sense to a toxic political environment, created by the Liberals. His message was simple. The Ontario government has done nothing but waste money and promote common PC jack-assery. Even The Star, which is nothing more than a Liberal bent rag, could only honestly report the 'nearly half' of Torontonians oppose this action by Ford. Nearly Half...no real numbers sited...just 'nearly half'. What an obvious obfuscation of the facts by butt-hurt Libbies.
As for your suppositions about Ford being some sort of authoritarian...PFFT...
You are engaging in pure sound-bytes. Throwing **** at the wall, hoping something will stick.
The fact is, he has every right to invoke the 'Not Withstanding' clause, and I applaud his willingness to do what's right, instead of what the bleeding hearts club howls.
The Liberals lost, and they did so in large fashion. It is their own faults that Ford is Premier of Ontario. Had Wynn and her merry pack o' SJWs not frigged over the public at large so much, perhaps Rob Ford wouldn't be in a position to do what he's doing.
Thus, although eloquent in presentation...your post is just a litany of sound-bytes and general horse kaka.
But it reads well so thanks for that...
