![]() ![]() Holding the line on spending was good - now he should focus on shrinking it. He lost that fight, so now he’s talking about the next election. Shrinking government and finding the gravy got boring, so he moved onto subways. And there’s no real reason he couldn’t, except that he has seemingly lost interest. If Mayor Ford can deliver smaller government to his base, they may well continue to support him. These provide him opportunities to deliver base-pleasing victories, or least have a delightfully polarizing tiff with the unions. But he’s got a library strike going on, not to mention the ongoing negotiations with CUPE 79. I think the very real doubts most observers now have of Rob Ford’s … uhh, I guess we have to call them leadership … skills are justified based on his recent defeats. Gurney: He should focus on what he was originally elected to do - build a more efficient, smaller government. Can you think of any matters on which Rob Ford might productively put himself to work in the next two and a half years? ![]() But surely there are things for which it might be helpful to have a mayor who lives and exists in the present. And having realized that he will not, in fact, be getting subways during this term of Council, he has simply checked out, his eyes ahead to the 2014 race and the Council term beyond. Convinced that he has successfully reduced the size and cost of government and improved customer service, Ford is bereft of any vision or ambition for this city that does not involve repeating the words “taxpayers” and “subways” until such time as they accidentally form the basis of a syntactically sensible sentence. His messiah having failed to arrive, he begs for more time, more faith and the hand of his brother to smite his enemies. Having given up on any attempt to govern, Rob Ford has once again stepped outside the system in an apparent effort to relive the glories of 2010, when he could promise anything he wanted - the responsibility to deliver it falling upon a magical “private sector” that would bring about heaven on Earth. Goldsbie: I feel like I’ve been living in, a city with no mayor in it. Join the conversation Tyler Anderson/National Post/Files Article contentĪfter a rough week for the Mayor, Jonathan Goldsbie, Matt Gurney and Chris Selley have a progressively weirder discussion about how the Mayor can get back on track. ![]()
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