Thread by @downtownrob88

In a vindictive salvo against former Toronto city council colleagues, (no other city was targeted) Ford cuts wards from 47 to 25 in Aug 2018, four and a half months into the municipal election campaign ending in November; Ford also cancelled planned regional chair elections.../2

...in Peel and York, thwarting the ambitions of his political foes, Brampton mayor Patrick Brown and Liberal leader Steven Del Duca;

Toronto sued, and the courts hurriedly ruled Sept 10 that Ford’s gerrymandering of political districts was undemocratic. So Ford accused the.../3

...courts of being undemocratic for upholding the constitution, threatening to invoke the Charter's last resort notwithstanding clause;

Sept 18, 2018, days after learning of the Superior Court loss, Ford complained to reporters that a "democratically elected government" is.../4

...being “shut down by the courts.” He also falsely accused the judge of being a crony appointed by former Ontario Premier McGuinty, even though the judge was not appointed by McGuinty – the judge was an appointment of the federal government.../5

Ford threatened to invoke the Charter's notwithstanding clause in the face of the City of Toronto lawsuit, but nonetheless prevailed following a narrow 5-4 Supreme Court decision in October 2021. The SCC found he had the right to make the intervention; /6

in a dissenting opinion, Justice Rosalie Abella said Ford's Orwellian-named Better Local Government Act was unconstitutional.

#onpoli
#VoteFordOut2022

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