The Provincial Government is in full damage control, today ... trying to salvage the Tories chances in a province that contains a third of the population of Canada and that currently gives the provincial Tories less than 10% of the popular support. Ford et al are backpedaling on stiffing the victims of Autism so that they can build more billion dollar subways that Toronto doesn't want.
This would have been initiated by the Federal Tories starting to panic, no doubt. Ford has done real damage to that brand and their blundering may have just cost the Tories a majority of even a mandate of any kind.
Blustering Yahoos only fly for the 10% of the population that are already blustering Yahoo's, except that they believe that they represent some sort of silent majority and not the freak Fringe of knuckle walking outsiders.