Premier Doug Ford thinks young people need to work harder.
“It drives me nuts when I see young, healthy people and they’ll call me saying, ‘I can’t find a job,’” Ford said earlier this week during a speech to the Toronto Region Board of Trade. “I assure you, if you look hard enough, it … may be in fast food or something else, but you’ll find a job.”
But Ford’s “old man yells at cloud” take on Gen Z’s economic plight couldn’t be more detached from reality. What Canadian youth really need isn’t better work ethic. It’s political leaders willing to work harder for them — or, at the very least, not against them.
