I’m not going to sit here and pretend that I either understand or particularly care about local Mississauga politics. I just want you to listen to this dipshit.
Premier Doug Ford says if former Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie tries to come back as Mississauga mayor he “will send an army down here” to help incumbent Carolyn Parrish.
“It was an absolute disaster under Bonnie Crombie,” Ford said Wednesday at a housing construction site in Mississauga where he was joined by Parrish.
“You know something, I never get involved in municipal elections, but I will send an army down here to make sure I support Mayor Parrish,” said Ford.
“So what I say to mayor Bonnie Crombie: bring it on, let’s go, we’re ready,” he said.
Yes, this is indeed the same Mr. Never Gets Involved In Municipal Elections who once dramatically changed the city of Toronto’s electoral boundaries and council composition smack in the middle of an active campaign for no damn reason. If you want to argue that he did have a reason, that’s fine. Perhaps he did. It’s good now and then to take a careful look at how governments function and see if they can be made more efficient and cost effective. But nothing about that was careful. He had a bug up his ass and the newfound power to do something about it, and so at the worst possible time, that’s what he did.
The more things change, something something something.
I wouldn’t be surprised if one day in the not too distant future, Bonnie Crombie wakes up and finds that she suddenly lives in a different city thanks to a new law redefining what counts as Mississauga.
That’s a joke…I think. It’s awfully hard to tell sometimes.