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      Well, it was crack, but yes. He went from being a mayor to a premier. And people are shocked that the corrupt asshole is acting all corrput.

      Edit: It was his brother, as the commentor below points out. But Dougie was known to be shitty before he was premier.

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        No, that was his brother. Rob Ford was mayor of Toronto and died a few years back.

        Doug Ford is his brother who used Rob’s popularity and name to propel himself to premiership.

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                  I don’t understand why elections don’t have quorums. My condo can’t do something obvious (fix AC chiller) without having enough owners agree, yet we can be governed by a party that gets a majority after most voters actually sat out with the attitude, “they all suck.”

                  If a quorum isn’t met in an election, all candidates for that riding should be barred from running again, and a new election should be called.

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                    I love that we have a perfect analogy to help drive home the point the next time a Party whines it would make it to hard to win or whatever the fuck is holding us up yet

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        Rob Ford was mayor of Toronto, and he was filmed on video smoking crack.

        He was an extremely conservative mayor who axed a lot of social programs and privatized things like garbage collection.

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          And this is Doug, Rob’s (who passed away) brother. Doug likely got Rob into drugs in the first place, as he’s a known former dealer.

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              Have you not seen his default shit-eating grin expression that he has all the time? The man is scum and regrets nothing that doesn’t actively lose him money.

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                  The most hilarious (and sad) thing about our province is that it’s run by a sticker salesman who both doesn’t want to sell profitable stickers (license plate renewals), and who sold defective stickers (blue license plate stickers).

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            Just wait until you hear about what his brother wants to do. Privatize healthcare. And conservatives are jumping for joy about it.

            Kinda weird that conservatives bitch non stop about a few bucks in taxes, but think paying $15,000 out of pocket for an x-ray is the way.

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              Sadly, I don’t see public healthcare surviving into the 2030s in this country. Too many people subscribe to the IDU-funded propaganda that two-tier is a “good thing”, and that’s the leading edge of a slippery slope to a sheer cliff… The Provinces (mostly run by Cons) are bleeding the system. PP will deliver the death blow unless he’s stopped from getting into power.