Videodrome
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Premier Doug Ford's Ontario
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Yikes.
SunriseChampion
Senior Member
Doug Ford is a pig alright, but he's not a communist pig.
Also, I'm glad to know I'm not a real person....that's why my votes don't count! It all makes sense now.
tiffer24
Senior Member
"I didn't know nuttin..."
adma
Superstar
Dean French = governmental malware.
tiffer24
Senior Member
Ford’s review of recent appointments will include Andrew Suboch, chair of a judicial committee that helps choose justices of the peace, because of connections to Dean French. Mr. Suboch has long-standing family ties to Mr. French through a provincial lacrosse team.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/pol...sh-criticism-after-departure-of-another-dean/
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/pol...sh-criticism-after-departure-of-another-dean/
zang
Senior Member
So, hydro CEO duly appointed by another government gets fired to the tune of millions in severence.
“Secret” patronage appointments get asked politely to resign, no black mark on their resume, when severance for “without cause” would be worth about two weeks of pay. Why not set an example and outright fire them, Dougie?
That doesn’t sound like a guy who “hit the roof”; it sounds like a guy who got caught.
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narduch
Senior Member
They probably would have gotten away with it for the most part but giving that 26 year old frat boy a $160k job that he was totally unqualified for tipped off the media to continue sniffing for more
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
What they should really be asking is how come the
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adma
Superstar
If I may make an observation: unlike, say, Sask's Grant Devine government where the stench wafted through all of cabinet and caucus, this seems *highly* centralized--by and large, Ford's PC caucus is shielded from the worst of it, other than being trained seals, etc; their weakness is their "strength", so to speak..
And essentially, Dean French's inlaws-and-cronies modus operandi was but a supposedly "safely" once-removed version of what would have been DoFo's own modus operandi--largely because within the tightly-knit Fordiverse, anything beyond is terra incognita. And on the personal one-on-one level which the Fords most succeed at, it's actually a disarming way of doing things; like, knowing that someone who *always* has someone who can do the job for you--even if it's a matter of procuring illegal Oxycontin (as per one of the more notorious incidents of RoFo's 2010 campaign)
And essentially, Dean French's inlaws-and-cronies modus operandi was but a supposedly "safely" once-removed version of what would have been DoFo's own modus operandi--largely because within the tightly-knit Fordiverse, anything beyond is terra incognita. And on the personal one-on-one level which the Fords most succeed at, it's actually a disarming way of doing things; like, knowing that someone who *always* has someone who can do the job for you--even if it's a matter of procuring illegal Oxycontin (as per one of the more notorious incidents of RoFo's 2010 campaign)
John_Dee
Active Member
He hit the roof because he got caught. And I don't doubt his anger is genuine; we all know he has a temper like a blast furnace, and (naturally) he immediately began screaming that everyone but himself was to blame even if he bore direct responsibility. He's that kind of guy.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
But geez, let’s stop that budding narrative that this is a Dean French problem - no, it is a Ford Family problem - Rueben Devlin, Gavin Tighe, Ron Taverner, Earl Provost and even Dean French himself - they are their fixers. Patronage is at the very core of the relationship.
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Thinker
Active Member
Just like he and his brother had enforcers doing the dirty work at City Hall. Doug is the godfather of all crap that's cooked up at Queens park, he is in charge and had his enforcers do the dirty work.
I find it interesting that he keeps doing it and doesn’t think anyone will notice
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Me might be thinking people are going to give the issue a pass - but of course, now is a different time from a year ago.
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zang
Senior Member
And there's a certain percentage of Ford voters who bought into the rhetoric about ridding the government of cronyism, only to find under Ford it's in full, unabashed force.
It's a minor problem hiring qualified friends for jobs, because they can at least do the actual work. A year in and the Ford government has been blatantly hiring people vastly unqualified for cushy positions. Taverner could be taken as a one off, but this week… Whoooooo boy!