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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Its crazy that a judge can overturn a basic election result based on this.
Did Ford do something stupid, absolutely, but I don't know if it should have been enough for the bench to step in and kill a results election.
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Whether or not it should be allowed is up to the provincial government of Ontario. As the law is written the bench didn't have a choice. Would you rather the bench make decisions based on harsh laws, or overrule the laws made by a democratically elected legislature?
Ford let it get to that point and gave the judge no other choice. He convinced them he knew what he was doing and that it wasn't a trivial dollar amount. It was probably one of the easiest rulings the judge has had to make, all the while wondering how the leader of the biggest city in the country could have let it get to that point.