OP-ED: Ford betrays Ontario conservatives with his reckless behaviour

Sue-Ann Levy writes, "Premier Doug Ford is a lethal combination of power madness and foolishness. He has yet again proven this during the current federal election campaign."

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Author: Sue-Ann Levy

I said this during the snap $185-M provincial election we didn’t need in February: Premier Doug Ford is a lethal combination of power madness and foolishness. He has yet again proven this during the current federal election campaign.

Whether he covets the federal leadership — because after all he’s done such a fine job in Ontario — or he’s upset that federal PC leader Pierre Polievre didn’t worship at the altar of Ford, his comments have been classless, nasty and just plain stupid.

The most recent, which aired on the eve of the election, did not just betray a trust but was unethical and highly unprofessional.

Whatever may have happened within his office with his staff should be private, not permitted to air as a dirty laundry for the salivating legacy media already highly biased against Polievre.

Besides, whatever happened to loyalty?

I had high hopes for Ford when he first was elected in 2018 and I was still writing for the Toronto Sun after Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne virtually destroyed the province.

He has let me down, along with Ontario Conservatives.

All he’s done is ruled by polls and in a fashion akin to an autocrat, has banished from his caucus those who dare cross him.

Goldie Ghamari is a prime example. She dared tell the truth about Islamists.

The education ministry needed a complete overhaul and the DEI activists who found their way into key administrative positions at the school boards put on notice.

The universities had become increasingly woke as well.

But seven years later, I can honestly say that the situation is far worse in education.

The Premier sat back and did nothing, no doubt too weak to take on the system and the unions.

Students have suffered tremendously.

Ford never cleaned out the DEI and anti-black racism activists in the education ministry and the system has become a circle jerk of black activists moving from school board to school board with no oversight by the Ford government.

The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) has been limping from crisis to crisis with no accountability whatsoever including the Richard Bilkzsto tragedy — the result of a DEI indoctrination session by a black activist who got off scot-free and enabled by the highly overpaid director of the school board, Colleen Russell-Rawlins.

She retired last November with her vacation credits and a hefty pension.

The previous education minister, Jill Dunlop, who was useless, assigned DEI activist Patrick Case to study the field trip turned into anti-Israel hate fest last September (which involved a teachers union vice president). Predictably Case came back with a weak report which was kept secret until word got out in the past week.

The most recent minister Paul Calandra just announced that a supervisor will oversee the board but only because of its ongoing financial mismanagement.

In the past 19 months Ford — while claiming he’s a good friend of the Jewish community — has let terror dominate the streets of major Ontario urban centres and the police take a hands-off approach.

Even though his solicitor-general Michael Kerzner is Jewish, he has done nothing to make police forces impose anti-masking laws and other laws that would prevent the terrorist sympathizers from blocking our main roadways.

The ultimate has been allowing these masked Hamasniks to pray on our major streets and to block traffic.

When I saw Ford on CNN trying to look tough (and promote his image) about the tariffs I wanted to throw a shoe at the TV.

I laughed at his ridiculous decision to pull all US liquor off LCBO shelves, even though taxpayers have already foot the bill for it.

Real leadership is not barking on TV at Donald Trump but taking a moral stance on the many issues facing the province.

Ford has proven himself to be opportunistic, a coward and lacking a moral compass.

So when I saw the tweet concerning his criticism of Pierre Polievre not building relationships (i.e., not kissing Ford’s ring) my hair stood on end.

If our Premier has entertained any thought of becoming federal leader I’m betting this will come back to haunt him.

You don’t burn bridges with members of a party that will support your ambitions.

Ford has created a dumpster fire.

Frankly, he’s not up to the job.