备战六月，赶走韦恩

New Person 说:
查了查，还真有DOUG FORD和大麻的报道。
Globe investigation: The Ford family’s history with drug dealing
This investigative report reveals that:
  • Doug Ford, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s brother, sold hashish for several years in the 1980s.
  • Another brother, Randy, was also involved in the drug trade and was once charged in relation to a drug-related kidnapping.
  • Their sister, Kathy, has been the victim of drug-related gun violence.
In the 1980s, anyone wanting to buy hashish had to know where to go. And in central Etobicoke, the wealthy Toronto suburb where Mayor Rob Ford grew up, one of those places was James Gardens. In the evening, the sports cars often wound along Edenbridge Drive, past the gated homes and the lawn-bowling pitches, until they reached the U-shaped parking lot. By nightfall, the public park was a hash drive-thru. One former street dealer, whom we will call "Justin," described the scene as "an assembly line."

There were usually a number of dealers to choose from, some of them supplied by a mainstay at James Gardens – a young man with the hulk-like frame and mop of bright blond hair: Doug Ford. "Most people didn't approach Doug looking for product. You went to the guys that he supplied. Because if Doug didn't know you and trust you, he wouldn't even roll down his window," Justin said.
Today, Mr. Ford is a member of Toronto's city council – and no ordinary councillor. First elected in 2010 as his brother was swept into the mayor's office, he has emerged as a truly powerful figure at City Hall –– trying to overhaul plans for Toronto's waterfront less than a year after arriving. He also has higher aspirations, and has said he wants to follow in the footsteps of his father, Doug Ford Sr., by running in the next provincial election as a Conservative.

Meanwhile, he serves as his brother's de facto spokesman. As Toronto is gripped by allegations that its mayor was captured on a homemade video smoking what appears to be crack cocaine and his office descends into disarray – his chief of staff was fired on Thursday – Doug Ford has been the only person to mount a spirited public defence of his largely silent sibling. On Friday, after the Mayor finally made a statement about the accusation, he was the one who fielded questions from the press.


Well before the events of the past week, The Globe and Mail began to research the Ford brothers in an effort to chronicle their lives before rising to prominence in Canada's largest city. Over the past 18 months, it has sought out and interviewed dozens of people who knew them in their formative years.

What has emerged is a portrait of a family once deeply immersed in the illegal drug scene. All three of the mayor's older siblings – brother Randy, 51, and sister Kathy, 52, as well as Doug, 48 – have had ties to drug traffickers.

Ten people who grew up with Doug Ford – a group that includes two former hashish suppliers, three street-level drug dealers and a number of casual users of hash – have described in a series of interviews how for several years Mr. Ford was a go-to dealer of hash. These sources had varying degrees of knowledge of his activities: Some said they purchased hash directly from him, some said they supplied him, while others said they observed him handling large quantities of the drug.

The events they described took place years ago, but as mayor, Rob Ford has surrounded himself with people from his past. Most recently he hired someone for his office whose long history with the Fords, the sources said, includes selling hashish with the mayor's brother.

The Globe wrote to Doug Ford outlining what the sources said about him, and received a response from Gavin Tighe, his lawyer, who said the allegations were false. "Your references to unnamed alleged sources of information represent the height of irresponsible and unprofessional journalism given the gravely serious and specious allegations of substantial criminal conduct."
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Not worse than Justin Trudeau and her mother
 
Ford's letter to his supporters:

It’s all about jobs.
Wynne’s Liberals have talked a good game.
But they’ve never met a tax they didn’t like.
And they’ve never had a tax they didn’t hike.
While they’re busy yapping, folks are hurting.
They’ve talked about opening up the north, but let me tell you this:
If I have to hop on a bulldozer myself, we’re going to start building roads to the Ring of Fire.
That region can do for Ontario what the oil sands did for Alberta.
Good mining jobs in the north mean good manufacturing jobs in the south.
We’re going to make Ontario the greatest place in the world to open a business.
And the greatest place in the world to get a great job you can count on being there for the long-haul.
 
GuardianAngel 说:
Ford is labeled as ultra right in this leadnow article.

Lol. Easy to label anyone they do not like ultra right. Maybe they are ultra ultra ultra left?
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现在的形势是：反对傻笔的都是极右！:D
 
duskanddawn 说:
省 NDP 的竞选牛肉来啦！看牙医和处方药免费！

韦恩已经让安省债台高筑，火娃丝这是准备寨上加债，加税花钱再上一层楼？

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美国企业减税，她要给安省企业加税？企业无竞争力只有死路一条，企业倒了老百姓从哪儿来钱交税？没有税收怎么支持牙医和处方费用？这NDP明摆着就是个250！
 
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Within hours of Doug Ford’s leadership victory last weekend, Ontario Progressive Conservatives who to that point wondered aloud whether they could possibly serve under such a person started falling into line.

Loyalty, self-preservation, opportunism, blind partisanship, genuine resolve to defeat Kathleen Wynne – whatever it was, even though only two PC MPPs had backed Mr. Ford’s campaign for Patrick Brown’s old job, others promptly began appearing alongside him at public events or enthusiastically praising him on social media.

Doug Ford is the new leader of the Ontario PC Party

No incoming leader would think twice before accepting caucus support. But for Mr. Ford, a different sort of help that also quickly became available poses a tougher question: What to do about the backroom veterans, establishment members of a party he not long ago pronounced needed an “enema,” now making it known they too are ready to serve?

The implicit offer is that he could have something approaching a traditional campaign, steered by the same sorts of political professionals who would have done so for Mr. Brown, or Christine Elliott or Caroline Mulroney.

Mr. Ford does not appear to have rejected that offer, yet. But his first week on the job seems to have been a struggle to figure out just how much he wants to conform to the usual expectations of a party leader and whom he trusts to help strike the right balance between that conformity and being true to his family’s populist political brand.

That tension has been evident, partly, in how Mr. Ford presents himself in public, flirting with normalcy but still rankling Tories who expect a certain level of discipline.

Mr. Ford has been visibly trying to reassure Ontarians who fear he is as much of a bull in a china shop as his late brother Rob proved while Toronto’s mayor, or as Donald Trump. With infrequent exceptions, he has been respectful toward political adversaries, polite to media, unthreatening in tone. He has made the right noises about Tories coming together to defeat Ms. Wynne’s Liberals and sometimes, fallen back on talking points when interviewers have asked about thorny topics such as his social conservatism.

But he also embarked on media interviews obviously lacking much knowledge of what the government he seeks to lead actually does, leading to an angry confrontation with a CBC host that got enough attention to undo some of his hard work to play against perceived type. And when more in his comfort zone he sometimes veered onto ground no other PC leader would – his claims he would lead his party to a historically large victory, for instance, boastful in a way that did not exactly discourage Trump comparisons.

Even Mr. Ford’s comments in support of private rather than government-run marijuana sales raised some eyebrows among Tories. Since when were they more liberal than the Liberals on pot? Was it part of any broader strategy, or just freelancing?

That last question was especially tricky, because amid some degree of behind-the-scenes jockeying, it was still being determined who had the leader’s ear and the organizational reins.

At the start of the week, word out of Mr. Ford’s camp was that his leadership campaign manager Michael Diamond – a protégé of Nick Kouvalis, once the best-known backroom figure in the Fords’ world – would run his general election campaign. Then it was that Kory Teneycke, former communications director for Stephen Harper and short-lived Sun News executive, had taken control. Then the campaign-manager talk centred on Chris Froggatt, an Ottawa lobbyist who was John Baird’s chief of staff during his early cabinet days.

Meanwhile, Dean French – a confidante of Mr. Ford last prominent in party politics as a Canadian Alliance organizer under Stockwell Day – was said to be serving as campaign chair, with much clout in personnel decisions. Other semi-familiar names surfaced, among them city councilor Michael Ford (the leader’s nephew) and former MPP Frank Klees.

If all these folks have anything in common (aside from mostly being white and male), it’s that none are currently members of the Conservative political establishment. Whether because of their own choice or personality conflicts, never having impressed the right crowd or time having seemingly passed them by, they are not part of federal leader Andrew Scheer’s team; few if any would be playing key roles for other provincial leaders.

Mr. Ford isn’t gutting his party’s entire infrastructure; many of the mid-level staff and organizers from Mr. Brown’s era are staying. And more prone to seeking approval from powerful people than he prefers to let on, Mr. Ford may yet be persuaded to surround himself with more of an Albany Club crowd, instead of the relative outsiders now at the highest levels.

It would be easy to make a case for the steadiest possible hands, capable of crafting the safest possible campaign. Opinion polls, after all, suggest the PCs could beat Ms. Wynne with just about any leader, so long as they don’t yet again find a way to beat themselves.

But then, Mr. Ford is not any leader. Those around him may have to embrace some chaos.

His current crowd may be more suited to that than the usual suspects. Other Tories view many of them with some of the same skepticism they did Mr. Ford until a week ago. Perhaps together, they can figure out how much they want or need to prove their detractors wrong.
 
duskanddawn 说:
省 NDP 的竞选牛肉来啦！看牙医和处方药免费！

韦恩已经让安省债台高筑，火娃丝这是准备寨上加债，加税花钱再上一层楼？

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跟土豆，韦恩一样的套路。借钱呗。
还好，还能借几年。等债务评级太低，借不到钱时，也该下台了，让新上台的党(那种时刻，很可能是保守党)操心呗。
 
阿土仔 说:
美国企业减税，她要给安省企业加税？企业无竞争力只有死路一条，企业倒了老百姓从哪儿来钱交税？没有税收怎么支持牙医和处方费用？这NDP明摆着就是个250！
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NDP历来就是250，你才知道？
 
Global mail is struggling to comprehend what is coming in Ontario.
 
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