It's OK, you can name me. I won't be offended.
Yes, Rob's mistakes are tiny compared to any of the provincial Liberal's. But the errors themselves aren't the point, in part because we are all human and we all make mistakes regardless of private sector, public sector, left or right, municipal or federal. The problem with Ford is that all his little errors point to the same huge, glaring problem of his mayoralty, and that is the harm that his approach would do to Toronto. You can't grow a healthy, thriving, metropolis by cutting everything in sight. It doesn't help the city's economy to make people more reliant on cars. There are real economic costs to social degradation, and like any other cost, deferring them just makes them more expensive to fix later. The city's debt was always well under control. It's the infrastructure that has been neglected for decades that is our real burden. And just as with excess debt, we are benefitting by doing nothing now, at the cost to future generations.
These aren't exactly outlandish observations, they're pretty simple and straightforward. But Ford demonstrates every single day that he is too arrogant, ignorant, juvenile, combative, and incompetent to even consider these views. There's only one way to lead according to Ford Nation: Cut, cut, cut! It's the simpleton's guide to governance, and it gets votes because people don't appreciate anything they have, only what gets taken away.
My objections with Ford have never been about all the stupid little scandals that keep cropping up, and in some cases I have defended him against them. Check this thread again. My objection is purely to do with his twisted political mentality.
As for the Liberal scandals, they are unfortunate but as I said, to a certain degree they are inevitable. None of them suggest either malevolence or incompetence (except for e-health) on the part of the Liberals. The ORNGE problems were corrected as soon as they were uncovered, and since no party is prescient, their response is as good as we could ask for. The power plant closures were going to be one of those "damned if you do, damned if you don't" things because there was such strong opposition to them, even from parties now complaining that they were cancelled! Understandably, the liberals chose the option that helped them retain power. And while I'm hardly a defender of McGuinty, (it just looked that way because I kept insisting on substantiation for complaints about him that nobody ever provided), he was always going to be far better than any cut, cut, cut Conservative.
