Ontario did much better on COVID cases and deaths than ANY lower 48 US state and, AFAIK, any European nation, despite Canada getting vaccines late due to federal govt, not Ontario. Ford has handled crisis with dignity and deserves credit, not blame.
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2/ to show just how well Ontario has actually done, here are charts comparing daily New Cases and Deaths for Ontario relative to neighboring Michigan, Florida and, in Europe, France. Ontario has done much better. Similar with every other jurisdiction in lower 48 US and Europe. 
3/ Ontario science advisory panel projected 100 deaths per day in March-April. Actual results are far lower than even the most optimistic projections, much better even than 97.5% percentile optimistic. Yet partisan Ontario media fails to credit Ford for this accomplishment.
4/ Ontario science advisory panel projected 10000-30000 cases per day by end of January, increasing exponentially. Ontario has got through dangerous winter with daily cases held thus far below ~4500 and mostly well less. No one predicted this in December.
5/ this was accomplished despite Ontairo receiving essentially zero vaccines between Jan 20 and Feb 15 and very few vaccines in March, as Canada fell far behind US in vaccine supply. Despite this failure by Trudeau government, Ontario outperformed US states with ample vaccines.
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