It seems that Doug Ford's populist fixation with beer and cars and interference in Toronto's politics is not fooling anyone. A poll taken at the end of May (which I missed until now) records an all-time record low favourability rating for an incumbent premier (-53.5%), substantially lower than even Kathleen Wynne's at the end of her tenure (-35.3%) - a pretty impressive feat in less than a year!
At the Raptors parade earlier this week, Ford was the only politician to elicit wild and sustained booing (even Justin Trudeau received a more or less neutral response). And this was from an audience that you might have thought was Ford's perfect target audience - no "latte-sipping urban elite" crowd this.
Now, opinion polls don't really mean anything (except as a very rough gauge of the popular will), and we are stuck with Ford for another three years, come what may. But it has renewed my faith, at least a little bit, in the Ontario electorate, after their almost unforgivable lapse in judgement last June.
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