It's so nice to see Ontario Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie finally taking some good punches at corrupt Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford.
This is one of the great ads her team has quickly cooked up in reaction to Ford's hot mic moment last week where he was caught on camera telling strangers how much he wanted Donald Trump to win the 2024 presidential election. It's the kind of numbskull instinct we've come to expect from Drug Fraud, my nickname for our mediocre premier who loves to flush billions of our tax dollars down the toilet.
Ford supported Trump winning 100%? Even though he is a convicted felon, an adjudicated rapist, a confirmed seditionist who tried to steal an election, a horror of a man who promised to destroy the world around him through economic and military disruption including massive tariffs. Anyone with half a brain could see the danger a second Trump term would mean. It's why massive majorities of Canadians including Ontarians wanted Kamala Harris to win that vote.
But not Dougie. He thought Trump was great simply due to ideological fantasies in Doug's head.
Nonsense.
Now Crombie is putting the screws to Ford who called this 16 month early election to take advantage of the potential chaos Trump is now unleashing on Canada with his threats to slap 25% tariffs on all Canadian goods being sold in that country, in violation of our trade agreements.
I remain completely baffled what any Ontarians see in this fraud of a premier. Doug Ford has no intelligence, no vision, no program beyond flip flopping to spend billions wherever and whenever it suits his interests or those of his big rich friends (or folks he wants to be his friends one day soon.)
Ontario is a total mess. Our health care is a mess and unable to provide for our health needs due to mismanagement and neglect by Ford, who was more concerned about bribing us with $3 billion worth of cheques, or flushing $2 billion down the toilet to speed up the sales of booze in corner and box stores, rather than spending that money on fixing Ontario's actual problems.
Our housing situation is a nightmare, but Ford is doing little about it, despite his big words. He even used the housing crisis as an excuse to try to sell huge chunks of the Greenbelt to his friends so they could profit in the billions - a move so corrupt, it's still under RCMP investigation. That's the other major reason we're having this election in Ontario now rather than the usual June 2026. Ford hopes to slip back into power before the RCMP come knocking to take him away in hand cuffs.
The only hope today is that Bonnie Crombie finally brings the fight and a decent competing message to counter the Ford nonsense, and give reasonable Ontarians an alternative government they can vote for. They haven't seen such an alternative much prior to this election, but are now seeing Crombie (and to some extent, NDP leader Marit Stiles) on the hustings every day repeating her message.
Thus far, Crombie has been impressive, focusing her main message on health care, day after day. Plus, she's talking about safety, housing, economic growth and diversification, fighting poverty too. But her main focus is on fixing health care, which helps to define her candidacy with voters. Plus she's sharing moments of passion in this campaign, giving voters insights into what makes her tick, what drives her, why she is in this race.
It's not to boost her ego and line her own pockets by doing favours for the continent's richest billionaires, like Doug Ford. It's to make a better life for her aging mother, and all aging parents, for all kids and young people struggling in this economy, and everyone in between.
I can only hope Crombie keeps up her focus on health care in this election. And also that when the provincial leaders' debate finally happens (perhaps the second last week of February), Crombie continues with her stellar, strong messaging she's been giving on this campaign trail and impresses voters out of their Ford stupor.
We won't be better off with another four years of Doug Ford. Doug Ford deserves to be kicked out of office for his insufferable arrogance calling this early election simply to grab more power for himself.
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