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His pension will pull in more than half that. I'm sure he'll be just fine.
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His pension will pull in more than half that. I'm sure he'll be just fine.
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QV
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Those kinds of guys always land lucrative jobs. It's no small thing what he's accomplished so far. He can make bank until 65 or sooner, then he will retire very, very well off.
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As leader of the Opposition, and a long time MP, has has enough connections to useful people to be hired pretty fast.
The animosity between parties on the hill is mostly manufactured image. When off the clock most are pretty friendly to each other, so I suspect he has lots of friends and acquaintances in the LPC, NDP, CPC, and the "movers and shakers" of Ottawa in general.
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I know that part. Don't care. The additional bridge is a good idea, and Moroun isn't entitled to a lack of competition.
I am interested in the idea of non-federal levels of government cutting deals with foreign governments. In the specific case, it's just between the US and Canada, and seems unexceptionable. Maybe it's a really good idea, and should work both ways. I can guess that some people who are happy with the bridge and happier that it puts Trump's nose out of joint might feel differently if Canadian provinces were cutting deals with Trump's administration. So also a maybe : maybe lower levels of government should be able to talk about deals across borders, but have no powers to execute them.
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Just to support what @Czech_pivo has said, I've lived in SW Ontario since 2009 and since then have been across that border dozens of times. To say that the Moroun organization is aggressive in the protection of their monopoly by way of litigation is an understatement. There were numerous issues before the Gordie Howe bridge was approved. Rick Snyder, the Republican governor of Michigan, finally threw a lot of effort behind getting the deal done against some heavy duty lobbying from the Moroun organization and his political backers. Those were tremendously contentious years.
All this long before Trump's presidency was just a wet dream.
The last few years have actually been pretty quiet until this last whirlwind assault.
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So the Premier of Ontario who spends all his time trying to be the Mayor of Toronto wants to be the Prime Minister of Canada?
No thanks.
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He's been a better premier than most that I have seen over 20+ years of watching politics. When faced with backlash against an unpopular and frivolous choice, he adjusts course. Most just bash on and hope that the tiny vocal minority they are appealing to come out on election day.
The LPO imploded and have remained in that state because they forgot that the "folks" matter, and get to have their say every few years.
The backroom dealings in Queen's Park aren't any worse than they were before, it's just that the "legacy media" is mostly captured by LPC/LPO believers, so every greasy deal is front page news on repeat.
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Ford is very corrupt. Your right they weren’t worse than the LPO/LPC but that doesn’t mean they weren’t corrupt too.
I miss the Harper days where the largest corruption scandal they can find is a senator buying a 16$ glass of orange juice, instead of billions in corruption and no one batting a eye.
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Other than Harper lying and breaking his Alliance-PC merger bargain with MacKay, but it didn’t have overt money in Harper’s pocket so some people excuse him for it.
Ford pushed some shady stuff especially with the greenbelt construction stuff, but as @Furniture noted, he reads the room when ‘folks’ don’t like something and he adjusts course. I’ll take Ford all day long over Wynne, McGuinty and Rae.
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I have tremendous respect for Ford as a politician- he's got combination of... genuineness?, pragmatism, and flexibility that makes him teflon. He's just a semi-likeable dude doing a job, and when he gets caught out we all shrug as if to say "eh, that's just Dougie, carry on"
Case in point- the administration is openly in the pocket of a handful of GTA developers, corruption that has contributed to a (almost decade now) of incompetence on the housing file which is arguably one of the largest drivers of the national housing and cost of living crisis - and it's just "the shady greenbelt construction stuff"
I've met both Ford and Bonnie Crombie a few times (pre and during her tenure as Mississauga Mayor). Super minor/short interactions. A couple of public events and a dinner with Ford, a few events with Crombie. Ford has always seemed a genuinely affable guy, and actually talks to you. People I know have more time with him and worked with him and are positive about him, at least as a person to interact with. That doesn't mean he's a good premier, I'm firmly in the camp of he's the best of bad options, and have serious concerns about corruption with his government. I'll also probably be voting for him in the next election because I don't know that anyone better is going to be stepping up, and much of Ontario's probably in the same boat.
I don't know anyone who has had a positive thing to say about Bonnie Crombie or her assistants. Granted, more limited experience with her.
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This sums things up nicely onPolitical parties and those that follow party dogma blindly without the ability to think and question independently.
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That's not politics, that's herd dynamics. People are still mammals. For every successful 'independent thinker' there are probably dozens of Groks that got stomped to death by mammoths, died painfully trying a new mushroom, or whatever other millions of ways we've managed to kill ourselves.
Mob psychology is fascinating though, but that's exactly why they teach people to take charge at a first aid scene; as soon as you do that other people will stop to help vice just walk by, or all the other many crowd efforts throughout history. Less 'blindly following' than being bolstered by others to do something as part of a group, but being afraid to take the first step.
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'Mob psychology' is exactly what got Trudeau the Younger elected the first time -
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Lots of factors on the cost of living crisis. The fact we stopped making public housing in the 90s is a slow burning one which has had very long term effects.
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Never underestimate the power of style over substance. People repeatedly confirm they prefer smiles and socks over dour boring competent administration.
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Yes there are. And the cost of living crisis isn't limited to the housing crisis. But the housing crisis is a massive part of it. And land use planning and housing are provincial files (municipalities are delegated extensions of provincial jurisdiction and accountability that Ford is ultimately accountable for, and have been a huge driver. He's been at the wheel for coming up on 8 years, and arguable actively contributed to the problem.
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