Doug Ford’s battle to win at any cost is dangerous for Canada
David Moscrop is a Canadian contributing columnist for Post Opinions.
It’s been a bad few years for making decisions in Canada. Or, at least, it’s been a bad few years for how we make decisions. First, the federal Liberals abandoned voting reform efforts promised during the 2015, citing a lack of consensus (which they never tried to achieve). Around the same time, rumblings that their marquee energy project, the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline, was in trouble started to get loud. Then, in August, the Federal Court of Appeal struck down the project’s approval, ruling that the government must address flaws in the review process.
And now, there’s Doug Ford and the Great Section 33 Caper. A one-term city councilor in Toronto turned unlikely premier, Ford is unreasonably fixated on local politics. His old stamping ground’s local politics, that is. He targeted the city this fall, declaring his intentions to cut its council by nearly half just months before the Oct. 22 municipal vote. His party was mum on this plan during the provincial election. But once in government, Ford decided to go full-bore on it.
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