Province isn't looking good either, and yeah they have their share of the responsibility, but it doesn't look good for the city, especially when he wouldn't declare a state of emergency.
Even if it wasn't the city's fault at all, and I do believe they share some of the blame, it still looks bad and will no doubt be in the minds of some voters when they cast their ballots.
Call it the Nenshi effect. How much one can do, or is supposed to do in a crisis is debatable, I'll agree. But times of crisis and emergency are huge in the minds of voters. Look at Hurricane Katrina and Bush, and on the flip side, look at Superstorm Sandy and Obama and Christie, or the Calgary Floods and Nenshi. You can still come out of it looking better, or worse, and I think Ford took a bit of damage on that one. Not a ton, but a little.
Province isn't looking good either, and yeah they have their share of the responsibility, but it doesn't look good for the city, especially when he wouldn't declare a state of emergency.
Even if it wasn't the city's fault at all, and I do believe they share some of the blame, it still looks bad and will no doubt be in the minds of some voters when they cast their ballots.
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If he would have declared an emergency, the province and federal government would have made resources available. He wasn't the only one though. I live in Clarington and was without power for 3 days, and some people here were without power for longer, and our mayors didn't go to the province either. Same thing with Pickering and Ajax.
I am sure that if they were personally affected though, it would have been a different story.
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Oh, wasn't assuming you were defending him. It's a valid point of discussion. I do think it hurt him a bit though, especially when he was stubborn about not calling a state of emergency.
If he would have declared an emergency, the province and federal government would have made resources available. He wasn't the only one though. I live in Clarington and was without power for 3 days, and some people here were without power for longer, and our mayors didn't go to the province either. Same thing with Pickering and Ajax.
I am sure that if they were personally affected though, it would have been a different story.
Yeah, I think a lot of people dropped the ball, not piling it all (or even a lot of it) on Ford. Problems across the board and at all levels. Just reasoning that it will probably be in the minds of some voters when the election comes, and it won't help him.
Didn't council strip Ford of some of his powers? Is he even able to call a state of emergency?
I think that was part of the reasoning behind him not. It wasn't that he wasn't able to, but that if he did, because of the powers that were stripped, he would have been pretty much eliminated from the decision making and the public appearances so it was part of him not wanting to.
However, I admit I heard this from someone who is anti-Ford so it may not be correct. Actually, if anyone here knows the full story, or if I am close, I'd love to know too.
I would protest that Wynne looks a lot worse after the ice storm than Rob Ford does, with her gift card debacle and throwing Meilleur under the bus over it. At the end of the day, no municipality in the province declared a state of emergency over the ice storm that I'm aware of (I have been in Clarington with my parents and Clarington certainly didn't) so Ford's views on the ice storm were obviously in line with the other municipal leaders in the area.
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I don't disagree. I would just say, everyone looks bad. Province definitely has more tools at their disposal.
I did say I wouldn't put a lot of blame on Ford. But a little. He is the mayor, and people were without power for 10+ days in some circumstances. There was real danger of people freezing to death, people dying in hospitals, etc. Regardless, my point is, even if there wasn't much the elected officials could do, it's the sort of thing that sticks in the heads of the voters.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who was visiting Vancouver this weekend for the funeral of a family friend, was ticketed by RCMP this evening for public intoxication and jaywalking, sources have told Global News.
He said I fd up boys. I was just trying to cross the red light here, and this officer stopped me, said Ian Currie, who saw Ford being ticketed by officers, to Global News.
He said I thought it was looser on the West Coast, I thought you were cooler over here, said Currie. We said its still the RCMP, man.
Mayor Rob Ford’s wife worried about her husband’s drug addiction and asked for help getting him clean shortly after he was elected, according to a new book.
“He still thinks he’s going to party,” Renata Ford told a confidant in a Tim Horton’s parking lot outside Etobicoke. “He thinks that he, oh, you know, ‘I’ll get off the pills, but I’m not giving up the blow.’”
That conversation, which the Star’s Robyn Doolittle heard on a recording, is one of several newly uncovered details from her book Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story, to be released Monday. It raises new questions about Ford’s substance abuse and offers further insight on the inner circle that tried to get him help.
His wife, through their lawyer, is claiming the conversation never happened.
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