It is an unfitting and ugly end for the Toronto mayor
You have to expect that sort of treatment if you get into politics. Amira Elghawaby was probably thrilled to be asked to serve as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s special representative on Islamophobia, and got publicly humiliated for her efforts. Dominic Barton could have gone on being a high-flying global big shot rather than serving as Canada’s ambassador to China; instead he spent last week being shredded by a Commons committee for his efforts.
In Bad Idea No. 2, he chose in that same election to run in a riding pretty much owned by the then-formidable Kathleen Wynne, who wiped the floor with him. Just to complete the disaster, he then struggled to find anyone in his caucus willing to quit their seat so he could contest it, then — when someone finally agreed — managed to flub away what had previously been a safe seat and was forced to step down.
Maybe his years as mayor weren’t a parade of success on success, though he did a good enough job to get twice re-elected and was still popular up to last Friday. Toronto is a very difficult city to run. The challenges are enormous: housing, poverty, sleepers on the street, weird crime, horrible traffic…Article content
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