If you’re a politician and you disagree with a court ruling, it’s fine to say so. By all means, feel free to calmly and rationally explain your issues with the judge’s decision and maybe even muse about possible next steps that your government may take if applicable. But at no time should you go out of your way to threaten a judge and generally whine like a little bitch. Don’t pull a Doug Ford, in other words. Christ, just listen to this fuckin’ man baby chew about the absolutely foreseeable consequences of a problem that his government has done nothing to fix and in some ways has actively made worse.
Ford said Gibson’s decision was “the most ridiculous ruling I’ve ever seen” that puts the rights of a few dozen people over millions of future transit riders.
“He comes out with this cockamamie idea that they’re gonna hold up transit, so for what, 30 people, they’re going to hold up millions and millions of riders, communities and everything,” Ford said at an unrelated press conference in Sault Ste. Marie.
“The judge is saying that we got to hold up projects and everything,” he said. “I wish I could get that guy’s address, I’ll send 50 encampments in his backyard and see how he likes it.”
It’s nice to hear him say, as he does in the video, that he’s going to take care of these homeless people. I’d love to know when he plans on starting and what he’s going to do. Are we raising social assistance rates? Restoring rent control so that people don’t become homeless simply because they’re priced out of the market? Mandating that a significant percentage (like maybe half) of all new housing be affordable? Tackling the waiting lists for geared to income housing? Funding supportive housing? Restoring funding for all the harm reduction sites you shut down? Building new shelter spaces instead of all of those stupid jails? Emphasizing support in the jails we already have instead of just warehousing people and hoping that the magical fairies will come and sprinkle mystical happy rehab therapy dust on everyone as they get released? Any of that would be far more worthwhile than whatever it is you’re doing now. I suggest getting off your ass and getting to work.