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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (28 children)

Wasn't he the cocaine guy from a few years ago?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

Well, it was crack, but ~~yes. He went from being a mayor to a premier.~~ And people are shocked that the corrupt asshole is acting all corrput.

Edit: It was his brother, as the commentor below points out. But Dougie was known to be shitty before he was premier.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (6 children)

No, that was his brother. Rob Ford was mayor of Toronto and died a few years back.

Doug Ford is his brother who used Rob's popularity and name to propel himself to premiership.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My mistake. Thank you for the correction. Still a corrupt shitbag though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He won with less than 23% voter turnout, the lowest turnout in Ontario's entire history.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yep. 18% of all eligible voters in Ontario gave this guy a Majority government.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fed up citizens HATE this one dirty trick that shouldn't be allowed

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I don't understand why elections don't have quorums. My condo can't do something obvious (fix AC chiller) without having enough owners agree, yet we can be governed by a party that gets a majority after most voters actually sat out with the attitude, "they all suck."

If a quorum isn't met in an election, all candidates for that riding should be barred from running again, and a new election should be called.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I love that we have a perfect analogy to help drive home the point the next time a Party whines it would make it to hard to win or whatever the fuck is holding us up yet

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