Wynne to Ford: Step aside
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I did not vote for Norm Kelly. He is no doubt elected by one ward of residents as a city councellor but not as mayor.
She is legally the premier of Ontario. But she was not elected as such.
Something tells me that some people are listening too much to wynnes' p e n i s. :lol:
Nobody is elected premier of Ontario. You don't get to vote for that regardless.
Nobody has claimed that Norm Kelly is the mayor. The simple fact of our system in Toronto is that most of the power lies with city council. There are many duties that council traditionally allocates to the mayor, but they are certainly not bound to do so, especially if they have no confidence in the person currently in the office of the mayor. It would be irresponsible of them to allocate jobs to someone that they do not think can carry them out.
So Ford is obviously entitled to carry out all of the roles legally enshrined in the office of the mayor, but if you want to actually get anything done, you really need to talk to the person who actually has influence with city council.
Well technically she was. She (?) was elected as an MLA by her riding and as leader of the party by registered party members, who come from all over the province. Remember that in Canada we vote for the person, not the party even if this is not what always happens in practice.
It's perfectly fine to call her him. Gay men call each other she and her. I hear it all the time. Stuff like;"That George is such a bitch, she's seeing Leon and Mark."
I know that is how it works. But in similar situations, John Turner after Trudeau, Kim Campbell after The Great Muldune, the newly elected leader (and in those cases legal PM) usually has the decency to re-affirm the mandate with an election within short order. They tend not to presume they have the right to govern as benevolent dictator without re-affirming that with a vote.
Wow since when does your vote count in Toronto ?
A direct slap at your premier and education minister I see .
I have no idea whether Ford should be replaced or not, but the way Norm Kelly was parachuted in there while still calling Ford the mayor was crass ignorance..................either bounce the man or wait for the election for it to happen. It's not just an affront to a political figure but to another human being. Very classless act!
The sooner we can have an election to get rid of Wynne the happier I'll be. The only reason she's even there is because McLiar, being the coward that he is and knowing that the ship was sinking, ran away like a scared baby.
At least when he realized that he ****ed up and his continued presence would prevent work from getting done, he left.
What else would you want him to do?