Ex-mayor Ford
There are four reasons why Rob Ford is hated by every progressive person in Toronto, to the point where they actually froth, like Pavlov’s dog, when his name is mentioned. 1. He is fat. 2. He is colourful. 3. He is rightwing. And the clinching point: 4. He was freely elected Mayor of Toronto by a large margin, over the gay leftwing darling who’d been groomed for the post by the municipal establishment.
This morning, an Ontario judge rectified at least the last of these objections, by ordering him removed from office. At issue was a frivolous charge brought by a leftist complainer under the Province’s arcane Municipal Conflict of Interest Act. But the complainer was represented by Clayton Ruby, a major league “human rights” lawyer, the mention of whose name makes us froth like Pavlov’s dog.
It seems our fat, colourful, rightwing mayor is guilty of an unimaginable crime. He used his mayor’s office letterhead to help raise $3,150 for a kids’ football charity — to benefit a little league with which he’d himself been associated (as a volunteer coach). Can you believe it?
And then he made it worse for himself by not showing the proper grovelling respect, when met by a vocal barrage from the usual Council commies. He even refused to pay the money back from his own pocket. He said “see you in court” which, in Ontario, is a very grave tactical error for anyone known to be rightwing. The case went to the Ontario Superior Court, on whose bench sit several characters whom we could characterize — including Clayton Ruby’s wife.
The case was not decided by her, however, but by her colleague, Judge Charles Hackland. To be fair to him, he plainly acknowledged that the Act itself is a joke, that Mayor Ford had in no way acted dishonestly, that the punishment in no way fit the minor & arguable technicality of the “crime.” But then he passed sentence, vacating the result of a major Canadian election in which, as it were, the wrong side had won.
Elsewhere in the fine Province of Ontario we have mayors like Joe Fontana of London (Ont.), safe in office while under investigation by the RCMP on serious fraud charges. But as a former godfather for the federal Liberal Party, the man can pass as a progressive. The town’s municipal council has voted for him to leave office while facing these charges, but who are they? Mere elected officials. They have no standing under the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act, designed to receive suits only from extremely well-funded private busybodies. As in this case, against the mayor of Canada’s largest city.
The Toronto media, which is full of journalists — a class overwhelmingly Smug Left — is already exulting in the decision. The taxpayer-funded CBC (both television & radio) has had at him constantly. The progressive Toronto Scar has sent reporters to stalk him night & day, running big black headlines over nothing stories. In exposé after exposé, they have revealed to their amazed readers that Mayor Ford is — can you believe it? — fat, colourful, & rightwing. Last week the big media scandal was that he slipped & fell on artificial turf outside City Hall, while throwing footballs at another charity event. He tried to laugh this off with a self-deprecating joke about his “padding.” But the media had him nailed.
“Democracy” is the window dressing for the Nanny State. Ford was elected specifically to do something on behalf of taxpayers about the incredible unionized profligacy at City Hall. That meant taking on powerful & monied vested interests, which he has courageously done. He survived a withering campaign of slander while running for office. But the filth have got him now.
You are correct. It’s an outrage.
The citizens of your municipality should no longer submit to these unlawful authorities.
I know that CTC hates this stuff, but his comment did make me:
They don’t, any longer, submit to these unlawful authorities, dear CTC. One of the misfortunes of this Misrule is that the citizens of our municipality, & every other we know, have lost all respect for duly constituted authority, & simply take what they can grab. We might refer to previous posts; especially the one entitled, “Confucius Says.”
What would be nice to see now would be a massive protest march to Toronto City Hall demanding that Mayor Ford be reinstated. That won’t happen though. This is Canada, home of the sheep that fail to even bleat.
I shall print this column out and distribute it to all the smugly fucklings with whom I come into contact. (Lord, there are a lot of them.)
Well done!
Bring back the fat guy!!!!!!!!
Re-elect Mayor Ford!
The more I think about it, the more appalled I become by Ford’s removal from office. It amounts to a putsch at the municipal level.
Many Canadians, including DW, decry the dismal state of affairs in D.C. Yet, it’s noteworthy no American officeholder has ever been booted from office by an unelected judiciary. Even upon conviction of a crime, our officeholders must be kicked out by impeachment or by a recall election; i.e., through the democratic process.
So, where is democracy in greater danger? Toronto or D.C?
CTC, Canada is much, much more undemocratic than the United States.
For example, the force behind our so-called Charter of Rights and Freedoms (one Pierre Trudeau) once invoked the draconian War Measures Act to deal with a ragtag bunch of separatists from Quebec. He also frequently invoked closure in Parliament when debate got too annoying for him to endure.
Our Charter of Rights and Freedoms is the document that allows our judges to play at being legislators without having to bother with things like ballot boxes. If you are a leftist with an agenda, then get onto the bench in Canada and start using the Charter to engineer whatever you want to engineer.
Pierre Trudeau is more popular today than when he was alive. To top it all off, our so-called “conservative” government under Prime Minister Harper has recently opened a new $2.5-million visitor’s centre at Bethune Memorial House in Ontario’s lovely Muskoka region. For those who may not know, Norman Bethune was a hardline communist doctor who assisted Chairman Mao (perhaps the greatest mass murderer in history), to gain power over all of China.
As you can see, America’s attic is in much need of a major renovation.
As one of democracy’s most ardent critics, DW must be pleased with the mess in the attic. Presumably, he sees it as a fire hazard that will ultimately lead to a conflagration, leaving only a slab upon which may be built the House of Monarchy.
Speaking of Norman Bethune, I once met his cousin, also a doctor, who lived in Baddeck, Cape Breton.
I had to ask the inevitable: What was Norman Bethune like? His cousin didn’t skip a beat: “A shit,” he said.
I could say the same about Clayton Ruby, and worse. Doesn’t the fact that his wife is a colleague of Judge Hackland constitute some kind of conflict of interest — and, in this case, a genuine conflict?
I second M. Pepall’s battle cry: “Bring back the fat guy!!!!!!!!”