Thread by @downtownrob88

Dean French, forced to resign as Ford's chief of staff for cronyism and patronage in June 2019, becomes his former boss's emissary on behalf of the Mad Max/Duck Dynasty convoy in meetings with federal government and City of Ottawa officials;

The behind-the-scenes intrigue.../2

https://twitter.com/PnPCBC/status/1560024394981842944

..affirms the premier of Canada's largest province has backchannel ties to an outlaw convoy whose members advocate mass citizens’ arrests and a government overthrow, believe Trudeau is the illegitimate son of the late Fidel Castro of Cuba and that a ridiculous QAnon Queen of../3

...Canada, Romana Didulo, will imminently declare martial law across the land. But Ford wouldn't coordinate with the federal Liberals to settle the occupation;

Ford is unconscionably (and stupidly) absent from 3 tripartite meetings beginning Day 11 of the Mad Max occupation../4

...between federal ministers and the Ottawa mayor – failing to even send his attorney general;

Snowmobiling Ford goes incommunicado for 5 days while the domestic and US-funded Jethro convoy of anti-Trudeau, anti-mandate anarchists barrelled through his province beginning.../5

... Jan 26, 2022, sideswiping Toronto before hightailing it to Ottawa, promptly turning 20 blocks of the capital's downtown core and Parliament Hill into a dystopian truck-stop on Jan 29;

The Konvoy runs amok in Ottawa, bringing 24/7 diesel fumes, honking horns and images .../6

...of children being used as shields against police actions;

The QAnons arrogantly brandish a farcical "Memorandum of Understanding" challenging Canadian democracy, wave Nazi swastikas and US Confederate flags, (but lack a permit, plans or portapotties);

The Ford-bolstered../7

...squatters indulge in violence and vandalism, urinating on a war memorial, dancing on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, desecrating a Terry Fox statue, plotting to kill RCMP officers and block vital bridges. Nonetheless, Ford emerges Jan 31 and comes out for both anti-vax.../8

...trucker/thugs AND vaccines, unwilling to halt an occupation that only 14% of Canadians "strongly supported" according to a contemporaneous Abacus poll;

Amid rumblings downtown Toronto would experience a trucker uprising, Ford was upbeat as he abandoned downtown Ottawa .../9

...residents to bullying, harassment, anti-Semitism, misogyny and homophobia in their own neighbourhoods;

Proclaimed the premier about the white replacement theorists roaming the streets: "I just hope it's always a peaceful protest. If people want to come down and protest.../10

...God bless them."

The premier recants 2 days later, Feb 2, vowing zero tolerance for the urban camper/squatters as public and media demand Ford "pick a lane" over the convoy. Ford declares the Ottawa truck honking must end, but takes no direct action;

Windsor-Detroit's..../11

...Ambassador Bridge, an auto industry lifeline, is blockaded by 30-plus tractor trailers Feb 7. Ford describes the act of economic terrorism as "unacceptable", but again offers up nothing concrete; /12

Feb 8, Ford turns down City of Ottawa request for an emergency declaration over trucker occupation, then into its 11th day, as the negligent, possibly complicit premier absconds from his duty of care to Ottawa residents, embracing instead the CPC strategy of ensnaring the PM../13

..in the uprising;

The slow-playing Ford later acts on Feb 11 with little fanfare, hesitant to offend his shrill base of Covidiots;

As combined police forces arrest and remove the capital occupation following Trudeau's Feb 14, 2022 Emergencies Act passage, (police towed.../14

...more than 70 vehicles and arrested 191 people on 389 charges) Ford spins an alternate reality Feb 19: "I’ve worked on a plan for weeks and was hours away from ending this protest, but the federal government jumped ahead of my team."

Ford promised to send 1,500 OPP to help./15

..disperse the Ottawa occupiers, but ultimately dispatches only 100, contended Ottawa police Feb 7, with the Duck Dynasty convoy then into its 9th day;

Asked in a Feb 18 presser about his inaction on the capital occupation, Ford, who unilaterally cut Toronto council wards in./16

..half in the middle of the city's 2018 election campaign, contended without irony in a rich, condescending and plainly false statement that he's not one for "barging into another jurisdiction."

Ford's 3 appointees to the Ottawa Police Services Board were forced to resign.../17

..over their support for the first capital occupation; not only were some Ottawa police and OPP propping up or actively prolonging the trucker nightmare, one of the on-the-ground occupiers was a Ford-friendly member of the Ottawa police board confusing ignorance with..../18

...patriotism;

"This raises more questions than it answers,” said the Liberals' John Fraser on Mar 3, 2022, concerned that sensitive information on police strategy was provided to protest organizers or participants by Ford's 3 Ottawa police board appointees; /19

The Ontario Liberals accuse Ford of allegiance to the outlaw truckers over his refusal to enforce his own Ontario Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act provisions against owners of vehicles seized in the Ottawa occupation and the Windsor blockade. /20

The 39 convoy transports impounded pending payment of up to $100,000 each in fines have been reportedly returned to owners without penalty;

The communications chief for Ford's Solicitor General, the minister responsible for police services, contributed financially to the.../21

...occupation convoy;

Ford's Instagramming pseudo-socialite daughter, Krista Haynes, 30, and suspended police officer husband, outspoken anti-vaccine activists with apparent influence on the premier, are photographed unfurling a "F**k Trudeau" banner during the trucker.../22

...convoy's Toronto segment; another Ford daughter touts her "natural immunity" while denying the utility of vaccines.

#CLUSTERFORD #onpoli

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