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Sunday, August 5, 2018

Contempt for the people of Toronto

Doug Ford spits in the face of Toronto


Doug Ford’s out-of-nowhere plan to cut Toronto city council in half amounts to spitting in the face of the city and its voters.
Make no mistake: this is an act of supreme contempt for all of us, the people of Toronto.
It’s undoubtedly true that Ford is targeting his political opponents — the mainly left-leaning representatives of downtown wards that voted against him, as well as a couple of his rivals (notably Patrick Brown) who were running in the now-cancelled elections for regional chair in Peel and York regions.
But the way he’s going about this makes it much more than just a vindictive act of partisan score-settling, bad as that is. It’s a profoundly unfair move that subverts democracy at the local level and interferes directly in an election that, let’s remember, is already well underway.
You do not, as Mayor John Tory put it on Friday, change the rules in the middle of the game. But that’s exactly what Ford is doing by upending Toronto’s municipal election almost two months after candidates were able to officially enter the race.

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