OTTAWA — Whenever Doug Ford puts on that feel-your-pain “folks, I’m being honest with you” face, his pandemic-fighting plan from yesterday is about to be slammed into reverse – and replaced by something even worse.
I’ve been watching politicians since covering Calgary city council alongside a television reporter and future premier named Ralph Klein – yes, I’m that old – and I’ve never seen such raging ineptitude as Ford is now showing as Ontario premier.
And never have life-or-death actions and reactions fallen so short of the minimum threshold for competent leadership.
Everyone is piling on Ford. I’m not a fan but the real culprit in this mess is Justin Trudeau and his cronies.
Ford has been brutal in his use of lockdowns, they could have been much more selective had the lessons of the first lockdown been learned. The focus should have switched to isolating and protecting the most vulnerable, our elderly. Allowing large scale infection prone employers to operate while small businesses were shuttered was clueless.
My Mother died of Covid she contracted in a hospital in March never having been offered a vaccine. Unconscionable.
Justin on the other hand screwed the entire nation over by taking direction from Beijing and completely bungling the vaccine file.
