We can revisit this thread in a year's time. I'm sure you'll be shaking your head for even suggesting Ford might not be so bad.

Wynne was a disaster in many ways, but similar to the U.S. where people were fed up with the status quo, handing over the reins to a populist yahoo promising to shake things up isn't the solution. It just gets worse in many ways.

But he's still going to be a disaster, long-term.

And a lot of people won't notice the disaster because it won't affect them directly, but his conservative party is going to roll back sex ed in classrooms to pre-1995, just to keep references to homosexuality and trans identities out, leaving more kids confused, scared, and deeper in the closet. That's dangerous. Also, you can expect cuts to health care and education to fund his tax cuts. He's going to follow his brother's example of "Let's find efficiencies!" and when he discovers that those "efficiencies" add up to next to nothing, he's going to start cutting.

We can probably expect something similar to Mike Harries/Ernie Eaves.

I've known pot dealers who might fit that category, but most drug pushers I've come into contact with are pure and simple salesmen and business people. If they are selling meth, heroin, or cocaine, they count on the addictive properties of the drug to provide a reliable market. They are interested in only one thing: profit. If good salesmen are people persons, than they are that, too, but they aren't in it to make people feel good. If they were, they'd be taking a far smaller cut.

Doug Ford wants Toronto Pride to include police in parade before he attends.

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