Doug Ford’s election promises don’t add up
Ford’s messaging on his promised “audit” of Liberals’ spending hits a low point in political rhetoric, even for him.
With the Ontario election just seven weeks away, we’re starting to get an idea of what a Doug Ford government would look like.
It’s a rabble-rousing brand of politics, to be sure. But it’s also mathematically challenged.
The Progressive Conservatives have not released a comprehensive election platform, nothing so clear as that. But their leader, who prides himself on his straight talk, has been racking up promises in the past few days. None of them, however, add up the way he claims they do:
- Ford says his first act as premier will be to fire the head of Hydro One.
Ford thinks the “six-million-dollar man,” Mayo Schmidt, makes too much money and plenty of Ontario voters probably agree with him.
What he’s counting on, bolstered by his own blustery statements about Schmidt and the Hydro board “laughing themselves to the bank” while customers struggle to pay their bills, is that fewer voters will know he can’t actually fire Schmidt. That’s because Hydro One was partly privatized two years ago.
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