The PC leader has learned to stop worrying and love big government
Remember Doug Ford? The old Doug Ford, I mean. The Doug Ford who wanted to “stop the gravy train” at Toronto City Hall. The Doug Ford who crusaded against overspending and waste. The Doug Ford who claimed that he and his brother Rob, the mayor, had saved the city more than a billion dollars.
The election budget he thrust into the shop window for voters last month boasts that “our government is making record capital investments” in Ontario – a cool $158-billion worth over 10 years.
Of course he is far from the first political leader to be co-opted by government. Once ensconced in office, most find it much more pleasant to announce programs than to cancel them. Given a choice between cutting the ribbon on a new train station and confronting a crowd of government workers furious about having their salaries frozen, they tend to take the smoother path. Leaders of all stripes spent big to confront the pandemic and many found they got rather used to it.
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