we Canadians should good-naturedly accept as a perfectly good excuse ...... even after he gets caught lying. Every one of us, I imagine, has tried illicit drugs at one time or another and as long as he's not addicted to crack-cocaine, that's one thing ...... the 'drunken stupor' thing usually indicates someone who spends more than a little time being pissed, not an example I'd want for my children in Toronto, or anywhere else. He's an arrogant, self-entitled, millionaire asshole.
Ford was a right wing populist—a rarity for Canada—or, as his brother called Ford during the campaign, Canada’s Sarah Palin. His platform was stopping the government “gravy train.” In office, he semi-privatized the garbage collectors and barred transit workers from striking. He used the city’s surpluses to pay down debt. He slashed benefits to city employees and says he’s saved Toronto $1 billion since taking office, a claim many councilors dispute.
But Ford wasn’t a details guy. “During my time on his campaign and in the mayor’s office, I probably knew where he was about 50% of the time,” says Adrienne Batra, his former communications director who left to become editorial page editor at the Toronto Sun at the end of 2011. “He’d just disappear and you’d ask him where he was and he’d say, ‘Oh, around town.’” In recent months his behavior has become more erratic, former aides say. He skipped council meetings to coach football and wouldn’t show up to work until after 11am. A court in November threw him out of office for using mayoral letterhead to raise money for his gridiron charity. He won an appeal in February.
Read more: Rob Ford, Toronto Mayor, Singlehandedly Makes Canadian Politics Interesting Again | TIME.com
http://swampland.time.com/2013/06/04/toronto-mayor-singlehandedly-makes-canadian-politics-interesting-again/#ixzz2jpFzOrEJ
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