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Late night phone call with Drug Fraud
Apr. 26th, 2019 07:11 pm So this guy texted Drug Fraud and he answered.
It's worth it to read the whole thing. Basically this fellow Daniel Enright's friend worked in autism services and got laid off because of the cutbacks. Ford offered to help find her a job and gave him an email for her to send her resume. Daniel asks about the cancelled plan to plant 50 million trees. Ford saw something about it in the news and called his office to find out because he hadn't heard anything about it. Ditto with the legal aid stuff; he blamed his office for misinforming him and said he'd look into it. He is "working" at 9 pm, answering phone calls, but essentially being a premier the way he and his brother were city counsellors—answering people's individual queries and making them feel listened to—except that doesn't scale to a provincial level. And someone, presumably an ex-Harris person, is setting the actual policy. (We already know it's not any of the ministers, because they're informed of policy right before they announce it, and are generally hidden from the press because they're so uninformed that they can't even answer questions.)
I don't know if it's true. I find it very credible. I guess this person could be making the story up, but I find it too highly specific to be fiction, and easily disprovable if that were the case. It is far more likely that Ford is lying and he absolutely does know what's going on but was pretending that he didn't to deflect blame.
But I feel that it is more likely that he actually is this clueless and he is just a walrus among all the trained seals, with a Harris ideologue running the show. Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice, but the ability to distinguish between them can help inform strategy.
It's worth it to read the whole thing. Basically this fellow Daniel Enright's friend worked in autism services and got laid off because of the cutbacks. Ford offered to help find her a job and gave him an email for her to send her resume. Daniel asks about the cancelled plan to plant 50 million trees. Ford saw something about it in the news and called his office to find out because he hadn't heard anything about it. Ditto with the legal aid stuff; he blamed his office for misinforming him and said he'd look into it. He is "working" at 9 pm, answering phone calls, but essentially being a premier the way he and his brother were city counsellors—answering people's individual queries and making them feel listened to—except that doesn't scale to a provincial level. And someone, presumably an ex-Harris person, is setting the actual policy. (We already know it's not any of the ministers, because they're informed of policy right before they announce it, and are generally hidden from the press because they're so uninformed that they can't even answer questions.)
I don't know if it's true. I find it very credible. I guess this person could be making the story up, but I find it too highly specific to be fiction, and easily disprovable if that were the case. It is far more likely that Ford is lying and he absolutely does know what's going on but was pretending that he didn't to deflect blame.
But I feel that it is more likely that he actually is this clueless and he is just a walrus among all the trained seals, with a Harris ideologue running the show. Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice, but the ability to distinguish between them can help inform strategy.
