All of us in Ontario,
indeed in Canada, have been treated to a great deal of American news in the
past year. Much of it has focused on the leader of that country: a man who
appears incapable of telling the truth, breaks promises as easily as he makes
them, plays at his job like a game, and is an embarrassment to most of his
people.
There is one valuable thing,
however, that we can learn from this man: how NOT to vote.
People in the United
States voted for a man who said he was “one of you”, though he wasn’t. A man
who said he would help the common man, though he didn’t. A man who said you can
have it all without paying for it, though we all know you can’t.
Too many Americans
fell for this, and they are paying for it now.
Doug Ford is simply
Donald Trump wrapped in a maple leaf. A rich, bombastic, right-wing politician
who will say anything for a vote, and means not a word of it. We don’t have to
guess where this leads: we just have to look south of the border to see the
results. Do we want to lose respect, becoming a laughing stock, and – oh by the
way – see massive cuts to our social programmes which will go to line the
pockets of the rich?
We have seen this type
of “populist” candidate before. We know where it ends up. Right now the polls
are saying that Doug Ford has a lock on the June election. Prove them wrong.
Prove we are better than that.
