• Badland9085@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    DoFo looks for what gets him votes and does the thing. I’ve, thus far, seen no other principles behind this man, maybe except for his obsession with Toronto. Of course he’ll play Captain Canada cause why would you not play that to get people to think they can rely on you? He targeted bike lanes because Ontario is car-centric and most people are forced to be motorists, who are generally inconvenienced by bike lanes in the short term, and it’ll get him the support he wants. He struck down education workers’ rights to strike, because families are inconvenienced, and there are a lot more families than there are education workers. 200 bucks rebate with no regards to the cost of actually sending out that money, just because it’ll most probably get him the support he wants.

    • StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world
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      You’re not wrong. It’s so. SO blatant. “Mom’s cheesecake” blatant.

      Maybe OT, but I think the car-vs.-bike obsession is entirely manufactured and every time a politician stands in the way of bike lanes and public transit, they’re virtue signalling to the O&G lobby. Same with being overly weird about plastic bags, utensils and packaging (petroleum byproduct) and how much we need them.

      On bill 28, he and his gleefully instituted it because his funders and peers want to get rid of unions. Remember that “we have very well paid educators who should feel lucky they even have jobs - paidforbythegovernmentofontario” shit on the radio that August? And I saw them jeering at the peanut gallery when they passed it (Ford was, no surprise, at the cottage or some shit). That whole debacle was DoFo’s owners testing to see what workers rights they could get away with removing by fiat.

      Maybe that’s why he wants a “stronger mandate.” The furry wee gods help us all…

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      2 days ago

      If there’s a consistent principle, it’s looking for opportunities to enrich himself and his buddies.