By Judi McLeod -- Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director——Bio and Archives--October 23, 2018
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“It was unfair, she raged. It was undemocratic. It was savage. It was brutal. It was also over with, and the election had gone ahead without evidence of any permanent damage to democracy, but what would the CBC be if it couldn’t open the show with a diatribe against that horrible man who had somehow become premier?”In spite of CBC, Canada’s main news carrier, subsidized by $1-billion a year from the taxpayers’ purse, Premier Ford’s council cutback was over, just like breakfast. Keesmaat, offering “progressive proposals” was late in getting into the race, didn’t have much in the way of an election budget and talked about the possibility of senior levels of government coming up with the scratch needed for some of her post-election dreams.
“Did anyone really think Doug Ford, accused by many of slashing the size of council out of pure spite, would suddenly shower untold millions on a city he claims is a model of “dysfunctional government and … political gridlock?” The one that hounded his brother and removed his powers, handing them to the deputy mayor, Norm Kelly (who, coincidentally, lost his seat on the new, smaller council Monday).” (National Post)
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