Halton Home Inspector wrote:
Yes, isn't that amazing. It must bother you that so many people are willing to forgive him and remember him for all of the good things he did.
What good things did he do? He was a frugal money manager sure but most of his political horses failed big time. His ignorance on most subjects was astonishing (as an example check out some of his subway vs light rail debates)
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As far as political successes go, he had none, really, unless you count getting garbage privatized on one side of the city as a notable accomplishment. The fact that he "spoke to" many people is only notable in what it reveals about people. It reveals nothing positive about Ford's impact on politics, Toronto, or on Canadians.
"A dedicated man of the people," he was called, in a statement from "his family" (I do not know which members of his family prepared this statement). No. He was not a man of "the people," he was a man who was out for himself and others like him: white middle- or upper-class men.
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Rob Ford combined this lack of civic knowledge with hungry political ambition to create the absolute worst kind of politician. He relentlessly celebrated his own civic ignorance and did so at the expense of others.
His near-total lack of knowledge about the job he was supposed to do is not debatable. Bear in mind that, when Rob Ford’s conflict of interest case went before the courts, his defense was that he had no idea he had done anything wrong because he had never read the councillor’s rules handbook (despite holding municipal political office for a dozen years by that point). Instead, he offered his own creative and completely wrong idea of what constituted a conflict of interest—after having been warned multiple times that he was in a conflict and should not speak, and did so anyway. He really did think that he had reduced the city’s planned debt (he did not), and saved the city a billion dollars (he did not), and that he had spearheaded policies that lowered unemployment (it increased over his watch), and that there was a crisis of wasteful spending at City Hall (KPMG audited the city and found very little).