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花钱买选票还是工作的
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所以，伪恩再做一届还是有可能的
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Doug Ford得赶紧拿出点对付的方案来。
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Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford says his wise management would save the province $6 billion without layoffs but offers no specifics beyond a general air of Make Ontario Great Again, Heather Mallick writes. (Chris Young / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE PHOTO)
By Heather MallickStar Columnist
Sat., March 31, 2018
New parents will be celebrating Ontario’s new budget plan for free licensed daycare for children between 2-1/2 and kindergarten age. The toddlers themselves, quietly swallowing whole grapes and staggering towards a power outlet with a wet finger, are oblivious, which is why they need daycare in the first place.
Small children are danger magnets and must be kept under constant surveillance. Also, they are poor which is why they give their parents unsightly fingerpaintings at Christmas. Kids are society’s deadbeats, their only asset a certain animal magnetism, and they are no help paying the huge rent or mortgage costs currently crushing Toronto families even though apparently some of them have their own rooms.
(Progressive) Conservative leader Doug Ford must have forgotten early parenthood and his own toddlerhood or he wouldn’t have responded with this extraordinary remark. “It’s amazing how they pledge billions of dollars for children who haven’t even been born.” Imagine sneering at the pre-conceived. It’s not like they can fight back.
Ford did not say, “It’s amazing how they pledge billions of dollars for old people who are going to die anyway,” even though the Liberal budget will also pay for medication and home maintenance for seniors. That’s because seniors have power, and I mean real power.
Ford is correct about one demographic. The $2.2-billion child care provision will begin in 2020, before some parents have even committed the foul acts that will produce tiny consumers. Some tax-happy toddlers will be stuffing their mouths with $20 bills (seriously, they would do that if daycare staff let them anywhere near paper money) but a large number will have aged out, as they say.
Premier Kathleen Wynne says the budget offers “the freedom to choose when it’s time for mom or dad to go back to work. We’re playing the long game here, folks.” Preparing for the future is one of the purposes of government, given that individuals tend not to voluntarily tax themselves now for a future that might never happen. It’s the same with credit card debt.
So Ford is playing the short game, if that is a concept, and has not even offered voters a Conservative platform as the provincial election approaches on June 7. The man has a chaotic mind, his party is dishevelled and discredited by the scandals of the Patrick Brown era, and he has nothing to offer beyond absurdities like “I’m surprised the finance minister isn’t up here promising free cars. You get a car. And you get a car.”
He refused to say which of Wynne’s spending plans he would halt if he were premier. He is without political courage. Would he kill new dental care? Increased funds for mental health care? It puts him in the uncomfortable position of riding on her coattails or clinging to her skirts or some other wardrobe-related metaphor for fear.
The Liberal budget includes minor tax changes, with those earning $130,000 a year to pay about $200 more. “Today’s budget includes massive — I repeat, massive — tax hikes,” said Ford on Wednesday. He talks like Donald Trump in 2016 saying “Hillary Clinton plans a massive, and I mean massive, tax increase.”
Ford claimed it would cost a family of five $1,000 more. As the CBC’s Mike Crawley pointed out with some puzzlement, that’s only if five adults in your family are each earning over $130,000 a year. Ford even adds like Trump.
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Doug Ford leaves a press conference after being named as the newly elected leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives at the delayed Ontario PC Leadership announcement in Markham, Ont., on Saturday, March 10, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
Doug Ford is controversial.
The former Toronto city councillor and current leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party has been filmed handing out $20 bills to constituents; he’s said that a treatment home for children with autism “ruined” the neighbourhood he lived in. Meanwhile the Globe and Mail has alleged that when he was growing up, for several years, Ford was a “go-to dealer of hash.” Put simply, there is no shortage of fodder for Ford’s many critics on the left who feel he is unsuited for the job of premier of Ontario.
So when an outrageous 2014 tweet from a @CouncillorFord Twitter account made the rounds this week, its vile contents fit all-too-perfectly into the view so many have of Ford. In the tweet, the author mocks Olivia Chow, then a candidate for the Toronto mayoralty, for her accent. “Maybe @OliviaChow should use the @TorontoLibrary to learn Engrish,” the tweet reads. “She’s not mayor material, anyone from the Ford family is!”
It is unquestionably racist.
It is also very much fake.
Not in the intentionally designed fake-news, out-to-get-you way—the @CouncillorFord account was transparent satire, at least when it was active; it’s now suspended. But that hasn’t stopped screen grabs of the tweet from being widely shared and discussed. We know that, thanks to Google’s Trends tool, which shows that over the past week in Ontario, the six fastest-rising search queries related to “Doug Ford” have been about that tweet, ranging from “Doug Ford engrish” to “Doug Ford racist tweet.”
As the Ontario election campaign gets underway and various anti-Ford campaigns emerge, the viral sharing of the tweet is a dangerous and wrong way to make a point.
The fake Ford “Engrish” tweet is currently at a low burble. But it’s a timely reminder to reconsider a myth of the left: that it is the right that has a monopoly on believing and spreading falsehoods. No matter your political alignment, fakery that preys on confirmation bias is a dangerous thing, and to think that any person is immune is all the more fraught.
We’ve seen hoaxes, fakes and satirical messages be readily shared and consumed by the left in the United States, from the rampant resharing of a fictional quote that claimed Donald Trump told People in 1998 that Republicans are “the dumbest group of voters in the country,” to the many tweets and fake stories around the Russia investigation. There’s an entire cottage industry devoted to faking tweets from Donald Trump, riddled with typos and factual inaccuracies, including this fairly clearly faked one that was retweeted more than 28,000 times, which is telling about the state of what Americans believe could be tweeted by the President of the United States. There was also a widely shared—and fake—story from “Alternative Media Syndicate” that alleged police were setting fire to the campsites of people protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline.
No matter what the easy provocations indicate, the hard, human work of politics is never black-and-white, and rare is the person who does not enter politics with the earnest desire to do the right thing. Regardless of a person’s disagreeable qualities, no one deserves to be slandered. Whether voters agree with their platforms, policies and personalities, that’s entirely subjective; the facts, though, are not.
Confirmation bias blinds us to that fact, and stops us from being able to assess people according to what they really stand for, as Angela Wright wrote in Maclean’s recently: “The left often characterizes conservatives as heartless program slashers who hate women, gays, and minorities; the right, meanwhile, routinely paints liberals and progressives as snowflake crybabies who want to shut down free speech with invented identity politics.” And such relentless caricaturing on the part of parties on the left and the right only softens the ground for folks who either aren’t fair dealers or who are so willing or eager to become aggrieved that they suspend critical thought long enough to believe and share something fake. And with social media deluging us with more information than ever before, it’s a climate where there’s simply less opportunity to stop and think—a problem that knows no partisan bounds.
The Ontario election hasn’t even been called yet, and it’s already shaping up to be one of the most rancorous in memory. So this is an ideal moment to recognize that no person, regardless of their politics, is immune from confirmation bias—and that our democracy deserves better than decisions hardened by fiction. Let’s not do the foundational practice of voting a disservice by being swayed by instincts and truthiness instead of truth itself; you deserve public officials that are voted in or out based on what you know—and not just on what you think you know.
Vigilance may not feel as good as easy outrage—but our democracy demands it.
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这次省选如果Ford不能取胜，保守党人只能怪自己选错了领导人，在这个至关重要的事情上做出了错误的选择。
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Some anti-Doug Ford signs have gone up in Riverdale playing on familiar beware-of-dog signs. This sign is not put out by the Not Doug group. (Richard Lautens / Toronto Star)
By Robert BenzieQueen's Park Bureau Chief
Mon., March 26, 2018
An online guerrilla campaign attacking Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford is causing a buzz at Queen’s Park.
While the June 7 election campaign does not officially kick off for another six weeks, the new grassroots group, Not Doug, has launched a slick website aimed at the rookie Tory leader.
“There are many reasons why Doug is a bad choice for premier,” the website says before listing a litany of Ford’s controversial statements about autistic children, abortion, women, racism and drugs, among other topics.
Under each is a link to a mainstream media story that is the source material for the quote, including the Star, the National Post, the Globe and Mail, Global News, and Toronto Life.
“This isn’t about the Progressive Conservatives, Liberals, NDP, or Green party; it’s about preventing incompetent, unqualified individuals from taking power, just because they’re the loudest ones in the room. A Doug Ford government would be a disaster for Ontario,” the site says.
The Toronto-based website also features anti-Ford posters that can be downloaded and printed off at home. Copies have been springing up on public bulletin boards and construction sites over Toronto since last weekend.
Liberal campaign co-chair Deb Matthews said the governing party has no connection to the website.
“No. In fact, I’d love to know who it is; it’s very good,” Matthews said Monday.
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath’s office said it has nothing to do with it, either.
Ford’s spokesperson, Melissa Lantsman, emphasized the Tories are remaining focused on the looming election, instead of getting sidetracked by online attack ads.
“We know that insiders will say and do anything to make this election about anything but (Premier) Kathleen Wynne’s abysmal record on the economy,” said Lantsman.
The Not Doug organizers, who want to remain anonymous because they all have day jobs, insisted Monday that are “genuinely just a few concerned citizens that put together our own resources and time to make this campaign happen.”
“We are not affiliated with any political party, union, business, taxpayer group, or interest group otherwise,” the Not Doug team said via email.
“It’s kind of funny seeing people talk about how we look like we’re backed by some greater interest; our campaign was built in hours on a laptop. A staple gun, some design skills and a printer helps, too,” they wrote.
“We encourage and welcome anyone to join us, to challenge us and to have discussions with us. We plan to have a presence at key events and we will be releasing new facts up to the election.”
Doug Ford spoke Saturday at a campaign office opening in Ajax and a rally in Oshawa. He said as premier, he could attract investment by cutting red tape. (Rick Madonik/Toronto Star)
While some are former PC voters, they worry Ford would be like mercurial U.S. President Donald Trump, they said in a phone interview with the Star.
“After seeing what has happened south of us and in other parts of the world, we really want to avoid populism and a blatantly false rhetoric from taking hold of Ontario.
“We don’t think the public understands what the consequences of a Doug government really are.”
Unlike 18 other organizations, including the Liberal-friendly Working Families coalition of unions and the PC-boosting Facebook campaign Ontario Proud — Not Doug has yet to register as a third-party group with Elections Ontario.
“Very little money has been spent on this,” said the organizers, who added that they are “diligently keeping records” to ensure they stay within provincial spending limits.
“To some people, it might look expensive, but technology and a bit of design skill can help you make a really polished campaign for next to nothing; it’s really something anyone can do on a weekend with some friends.”
