Most of us, when we hear “more efficient” think it means doing the same thing using fewer resources, or doing more using the same resources. Clearly that’s why it’s an attractive term for a politician. Except in Ford’s vocabulary, it often means “not doing something anymore at all.”
If everyone is clear on that, it could save a lot of confusion if he one day announces — having promised no layoffs — that a bunch of government employees are being served “efficiency notices” that mean they will no longer have jobs, for instance. It’s just one of many instances where his particular vocabulary, however, is not an aid to understanding but a hindrance.
“Savings,” is another one of those tricky ones in his vocabulary. Especially “$1 billion in savings.” At the debate last night he mentioned it again for the bajillionth time — the claim that when his brother was mayor of Toronto, they found over a billion in savings.
Doug Ford's billion-dollar claim is not only untrue, it's complete nonsense
In Doug Ford’s vocabulary, the term “savings” means pretty much anything he wants it to mean, writes Edward Keenan.
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