The Ford-Fedeli Hammer

[dewline]

News from the provincial legislature in Toronto: Going after kids and teenagers, after oversight professionals, after Francophones across the province...and he expects us all to become (or resume being) drunk or stoned to distract us from the fact.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-pc-fall-economic-outlook-cuts-tax-lcbo-1.4906718

Comments

[dewline]

At least Ford doesn't have a literal nuclear option. And maybe legal action can restrain him and his crew from some of the worst of what they plan to do?

[moon_custafer]

What worries me there is that he’s already successfully used the Notwithstanding Clause once against a court that said “nope, unconstitutional,” so I imagine he’ll just keep doing so like a hacker in a Hollywood movie who can break past any security barrier by typing or saying “Override.”

[dewline]

He was going to invoke the Notwithstanding Clause, but then he got himself a favourable court ruling on the Toronto city council restructuring, which made that invocation unnecessary.

Sadly.