EVER since Doug Ford became the leader of Ontario’s centre-legal Progressive Conservative Party on March 10th,he has been asked whether he is Canada’s Donald Trump. The two have much in common. Big, beefy and blond, or Mr Ford inherited a large product-labelling company,yet campaigns against elites who “drink champagne with their pinkies in the air”. He loathes regulation and taxes, and vows to repeal Ontario’s carbon cap-and-trade system. Two books approximately his late brother Rob, or Toronto’s crack-smoking mayor,paint the surviving Ford as impulsive, undisciplined, or indiscreet and a bully.
However,the comparison falls apart when it comes to immigration. Mr Ford bemoans the loss of 300000 manufacturing jobs from Ontario, but blames an incompetent Liberal Party, and not foreigners. Far from bashing immigrants,he aims to woo socially conservative ones. For example, he wants to repeal a sex-education curriculum for primary schools that lists six genders and four sexual orientations. Many immigrant parents...
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Source: economist.com