When was the last time you liked a federal conservative candidate? And where would you rank Drug Ford compared to the last ~5 or so?
I mean, trick-ish question. Other than Timmy O'toole, all of the federal conservative candidates in my lifetime have been assembly line creations of the Preston Manning Foundation, or actually Preston Manning himself. If I was ranking them, he'd be 2nd after O'Toole though, just on account of not being from the Preston Manning conveyor system of alberta dickwads.
But there's not a lot to like about Ford tbh, he didn't hatch when Trump started getting stupid
- Uneducated by most standards
- Nepo Baby'd into a senior management position in his mid 20's with his family's company. His most notable career experience prior to this was as a successful street pharmaceutical represenative.
- Got into politics entirely through nepo baby connections and then airdropped into his family connected Toronto ward to win his first seat.
- Was a hilariously bad city councillor. His single biggest contribution as a councillor was putting forward a plan to build a monorail in the port lands. Fucking mono rail. Everything else was obstructionist horseshit and mindless budget populism with his brother. Accused TPS of trying to get "pay back" at his brother by investigating his crack use, fraud, and random criming that he was clearly doing. Dougie was also found to have broken multiple city integrity laws during his time with the city to funnel contracts to his family's company.
- Rumour has it that he and his team were responsible for the Patrick Brown rumour that torpedoed his campaign
- Started his reign as Premier with an audit of government finances because he insisted that wasteful spending was abundant....remember when there were 6 Billion dollars in "efficiencies" to be found? lol, yeah about that.
- Tried to give away chunks of the greenbelt to housing developers so we can have more suburban sprawl in a region that already has busted ass traffic. Probably broke the law while doing so.
- Managed to basically steal federal funds earmarked for healthcare...during a fucking international pandemic.... and shift it towards general revenue to make his budget look better, despite the system badly, badly needing investment. Spent 3.5 Billion less than what they had actually budgeted, because clearly our healthcare system didn't need it.
- Shit a few hundred million out the door so that we could buy beer at corner stores a few months earlier than we would have been able to had we just waited.
I could go on.
Like I said, I'll take a scumbag on my side in a knife fight. But when the knife fight is over, we still aren't friends.
