• Sabin10@lemmy.world
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        Well it prevented Doug from being elected mayor of Toronto so now he does whatever he can to hurt the city. It sometimes feels like this is his main objective as premier of Ontario.

        • grue@lemmy.worldM
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          If it’s anything like Atlanta’s relationship with the rest of Georgia, that was probably his main selling point for rural and suburban voters.

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            So basically “I’ll fuck over those snobs in the city to please the rural folk”?

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              Literally.

              It’s insanely ironic because amalgamation being forced on the city by the province is why his father’s political career got cut short. Amalgamation of Toronto. Which is where he lives, and where he has been elected to represent an MPP of Etobicoke North.

              Sure it was Etobicoke pre amalgamation, so maybe he’s still treating it as not Toronto? But those bike lanes in the OP are in Etobicoke.

              Here is an article from when he was in the running for party leadership:

              Ford made this anti-elite announcement, ironically, in the basement of his mother’s sprawling house in Etobicoke, source of the Ford political dynasty which includes his late father (Doug Ford Senior, an MPP from 1995-1999), late brother (Rob Ford, city councilor and then Toronto mayor from 2010-2014), and nephew (Michael Ford, former trustee and currently a councilor in Rob Ford’s former ward of Etobicoke North). Doug himself served and ran unsuccessfully for Mayor in 2014 against John Tory.

              In terms of political dynasties, read, elites, the Fords really don’t have much competition in the GTA, or even in Ontario. But that’s not how Ford will depict it. Despite their wealth and influence, the Fords have a family tradition of communing with the common man, and connecting with voters far less fortunate than they.