praktik
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Just wait til Jordan runs for PM
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Doug Ford, #jail2023
- Thread starter Bernnie Federko
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Just wait til Jordan runs for PM
praktik
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Finally free speech will be protected - the most important thing happening to our society is what insta-vinin' millenials get up to on campus.
Our Road to Ruin is now a Bridge to Total Freedom
Bernnie Federko
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DoFo mad, DoFo no like judges decision, folks. Rob look at him from beyond the grave, say courts like gravy, no support people across the province
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Bernnie Federko
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Premier Ford should now seek to shrink all the municipalities council sizes as a counter, show judges across the province he wasn't merely trying to fuck over those councilors he didn't like at city Hall
Bernnie Federko
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This press conference is something else. He's saying judges are partisan because they are appointed, and that he's overruling the decision by employing the notwithstanding clause!!
Bernnie Federko
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KickIT
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What is his urgency here? All his government has to do is mandate this change for the next municipal election and he is legally covered and the city can properly assess and plan for it. Instead he wants to invoke a controversial clause and recall parliament to make sure its done ASAP. Why should the rest of the province care? Aren't there other pressing issues his government should be looking at that affects all Ontarians? This is deeply personal to him.
el presidente Highsteppa
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Doug's eager to settle some scores with Toronto Council.
Note that the AG wasn't there at the conference with Doug said he'd push it through.
SneakyPete
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Doug Ford complaining about the ruling on his undemocratic bill being undemocratic.
Bernnie Federko
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Ford: "I would never imagine in a million years, a democratically elected government, by 2.3 million people, being overturned by one appointed judge. That's shocking."
Smyth: "But that's the judicial system."
Ford: "That is absolutely shocking to me."
Smyth: "But that's the judicial system."
Ford: "That is absolutely shocking to me."
Bernnie Federko
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He's also out touch with who appoints superior court judges - he claimed (out of his ass) this one was by McGuinty, but in reality they're from the federal government.
Bernnie Federko
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Lower. After he has the party vote on invoking the NWSC in the legislature on Wednesday.
Klubmasta Will
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Globe editorial: A bad law, a worse ruling and Doug Ford’s tantrum to top them both
^ This editorial sums up my view of all this. I think the judge's decision on Charter grounds was incorrect, and that Ford should respect the judicial decision and challenge it via appeal.
^ This editorial sums up my view of all this. I think the judge's decision on Charter grounds was incorrect, and that Ford should respect the judicial decision and challenge it via appeal.
KickIT
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Again, what is his goddamn rush to do this? Clearly he thinks this is the opportunity for his allies to snag up enough seats that Dougie can now rule Toronto. None of this would be an issue if he just said, next election these are the rules. But no, Dougie needs to control Toronto. What a farce.
praktik
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Pandora's box is opened after that vote.
Not only increased chance of many more applications of S33 in Ontario - but countrywide, as other Premiers follow suit for more and more issues.
Pipelines - right to work - whatever the fuck it is that courts slow down and is temporarily inconvenient to any sitting Premier.
Could even lead to constitutional realignment if it festers/percolates long enough. A messy one too since Quebec and all the premiers will be in love with S33 still, especially after starting to use it so much.
Doug Ford shows you what happens when you vote in someone who doesn't respect norms. A lot of our system is actually dependent on "norms".
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Bernnie Federko
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What will come to fruition first: A Charter Amendment or Toronto City Council raising Property Taxes or Flying Pigs?
Bernnie Federko
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SHOCKING
wickedken
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Ford is talking about judges "making law". There's room to appeal this particular ruling. And apparently judges "make law" "often", as per the Globe:
Only Parliament can fix Canada’s pipeline impasse
wickedken
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It does seem that Ford was eager to pull the trigger on this, especially when the ruling itself said that the short time constraint was the key factor.
Bernnie Federko
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Lots of callers on Ontario Today (CBC radio one at noon call in show) saying they voted Conservative but DoFo overstepped with this move.
el presidente Highsteppa
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The rest of Ontario is pretty much worthless without Toronto in the picture. He needs Toronto, but still wants to land a few shots at the City that spurned him (and John Tory for not paying a portion of the election costs he incurred).