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    Doug Ford hat ein außergewöhnliches Mandat völlig verschwendet


    Doug Ford hat ein außergewöhnliches Mandat völlig verschwendet

    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-doug-ford-ontario-premier-wasted-mandate-majority-government

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    1. AdAnxious8842 on

      It is disappointing. I’m not a Ford fan but voted Conservative for the first time in utter disgust of the Liberals (as an aside, they unfortunately did not waste their mandate, they just did all the wrong things but that’s another discussion..).

      I wonder if part of the problem is that Ford/his government never looked longer out than the next election and „politics of distraction“ became their go-to approach. Now, three elections in, looking back, there’s really nothing to show for it except a few good scandals involving his developers friends. If you think about it, that’s what is going to stand out.

    2. Godzilla52 on

      I feel like Ford missed his calling as either a campaign organizer or a diplomat. Guy definitely knows how to campaign, make deals, seize political initiative and keep his base energized (even distracting them from his government’s multiple controversies/blunders and has also been able to rebound from various polling slumps etc.) but as an administer he constantly prioritizes personal self-interest over the long term wellbeing of his province. (or arguably even his party after his departure)

      He’s a bit of paradox to me because I genuinely don’t think he’s a good premier, but I simultaneously admire his political gamesmanship and ability to stay afloat etc. He’s the most electorally successfully OPC leader since Davis, but his administrative legacy is probably as shallow as premiers that have been in office less than 5x as long as he has etc.

    3. ForeignExpression on

      It’s a lot worse that wasted a mandate, we are in this mess precisely because of Doug Ford’s decisions over 8 years to prioritize nicky-nacky distraction policies centered on booze and cars and entirely forgetting human beings and the wellbeing of the people while making back room deals and changing the laws constantly in his favour and stamping out democracy and trampling our rights and misspeanding our money and running huge deficits and screwing everybody over and stealing tax payers money and getting fatter and fatter.

    4. calimehtar on

      He did well for a few reasons: he’s a great communicator, and his faults for the first two terms fell into a political blind spot: he didn’t make visible, painful cuts to spending and so got a pass from the political center, and due to being a conservative avoided being held to account for deficits by the Sun.

      There are plenty of things he *should* have done with his mandate but he ran mostly on his personality and without a platform to speak of, so I guess we got what we deserved.

      It was clear from the beginning for people from Toronto who knew Ford that he was corrupt and in this also seems to have shielded him from criticism: Yeah he’s corrupt, and?

      Full disclosure: I’ve never voted for him but honestly, having lived during the Harris era, I expected worse and was pleasantly surprised.

    5. CrowdScene on

      His mandate to do what? I don’t even recall the PCPO releasing a comprehensive platform in any of his elections, instead offering meme worthy sound bytes that are likely to trend on social media (how’s that 401 tunnel coming along, Doug?) without saying anything about long term goals, so what do voters think they were voting for Ford to do?

    6. PineBNorth85 on

      He’s wasted his entire tenure. Not one thing has improved since 2018. Just been managed decline, poorly managed decline at that.

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