Ontario Premier Doug Ford answered President Donald Trump’s “Lake America” decree Saturday with a billboard-sized message on the Canadian shoreline — “Lake Ontario. Now and Always” — as Canadian leaders met the move with ridicule rather than outrage.
Wearing a Team Canada soccer jersey, Ford unveiled the sign near Grimsby, Ontario, and posed for photographs. The 24-by-12-foot (7.3-by-3.6 meter) sign stands on 6-foot (1.8-meter) legs, putting its top about 18 feet (5.5 meters) above the ground — roughly two stories high. The message is repeated in French, one
The display followed Trump’s executive order directing U.S. federal agencies to call Lake Ontario “Lake America.” After months of tariffs, threats to make Canada the 51st U.S. state and personal attacks on its leaders, the reaction in Canada has mixed defiance with mockery.
Two blowhards in a blowhardoff. The canadian sign is correct but debating Trump on these terms only validates and eggs him on.
It’s the exact sort of childish bullshit that we should expect from an ignorant moron like Ford. Everyone else went “OK, whatever” and ignored the whole thing because it’s childish bullshit, and then Ford had to go and validate the whole thing by building a sign to prove just how much it definitely absolutely 100% for sure did not bother him no sir not even in the slightest. This is literally the exact response Trump is looking for.
Says he’s “Team Canada” but then sells Ontario out to the US. Fuck Ford.
How so?
Doug Ford is exactly the same personality type as Trump, and given the same opportunities as Trump had would probably end up in exactly the same place. He is a dishonest, opportunistic, populist, malignant narcissist. He will say and do whatever he thinks will get him the support he needs to accomplish his deeply corrupt personal goals, which have nothing to do with helping the people of his province or country and everything to do with securing his own future and the people he considers to be others like him. And you might be tempted to apathetically respond “all politicians are like that” and that may even be objectively true to some degree at this time, but that is reductive and normalizing bad behavior is not a valid solution to anything unless you want to invite even more bad behavior. Holding people like this accountable is the only cure for it. Shaping the public discourse around them is an important and probably fundamental part of that, and we cannot do it alone.
The staples deal? Or where he laid off wsib staff and outsourced it to Texas?
Oh, okay, thought I might have been missing something in this article.
Ontario open for business
Pointing at an easily-edited sign for a photo? He should really know better. That’s going into the folder.
Ford is a narcissist. He only exists to line his and his cronies pockets. He is doing so many bad things it’s hard to list here. 1 example: Our child has been waiting 5 years now for basic therapy for his autism. OAP (Ontario autism program) has been cut to the bone. We were “approved” but then it is we will let you know. There are others that have been waiting over 7yrs. These kids cannot get time back and are not being taught how to live in the world. It will have repercussions for decades. He has done similar stuff with the student loan program. Ford needs to be gone yesterday.
