Featuring Mike Duffy, Rob Ford, and Kevin O’Leary — and those are just some of the runners-up
It’s not good to be cynical about politicians in general. Most are in the game for the right reasons. But over the past 10 years, a good few of them — and their advisers — have really let the side down. With an obvious bias toward Central Canada and federal politics, here are the Top Five Worst Political Ideas of the 2010s.
The 2010 Toronto mayoral election: Even some of Rob Ford’s biggest fans will wish aloud that he had never run for mayor. His brand of politics simply didn’t scale from city councillor to chief executive. It took a huge toll on his personal life. As it did for the city, which will be dealing for decades with delays and bad ideas he pushed through council.
Kevin O’Leary for Conservative Leader: It was at least a rush of schadenfreude to watch the jumped-up carnival barker fail miserably trying to win the race , and then fail miserably trying to pay back his campaign debts. His lawsuit against Elections Canada over rules prohibiting him from paying them himself is scheduled for April.
Quebec’s Values Charter:Remember the pictographic representations of acceptable and unacceptable attire, unveiled by the Parti Québécois government in 2013? The ideas underpinning the charter were popular, but the whiff of the Iranian morality police was not. Seven months later, the Liberals won a majority government.
Quebec’s Bill 21: The best anyone can say about new restrictions on civil servants’ attire is that they’re not as bad as the Values Charter.
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