Mayor Ford Gone Wild

What more can I add to what's been said about Mayor Rob Ford?

Mayor Ford has, while in office, used illegal drugs, been inebriated in public, and driven a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol.   He has also been caught driving distracted (apparently, he was reading printed material), and when caught, he gestured as if he was pointing a gun at the witness.  There have been other transgressions by this mayor against the people of the community, and against the finer sensibilities of decent, civil citizens.   This is no way for a government leader to lead.   This mayor has lost his dignity and his respect.

Mayor Ford is truly a politician gone wild.   For the good of his city, for the good of his family and all who are dear to him, and for his own good (not least his own health), he should step aside.  But, alas, this mayor will not go quietly.

One way or the other, Mayor Ford will not be mayor of Toronto much longer.  But the ending is likely to be ugly.

What a shame.

Abolish the Canadian Senate!

The Canadian taxpayer is fed up with the Senate, a government body that does nothing except rubber stamp all legislation and exhausts nearly $100 million of taxpayers' money each year.

Yes senators are connected to major Canadian corporations and can provide a back-channel conduit to Canadian business for the government.  Yes they sometimes give advice to our political parties in Parliament.   But those are weak reasons for preserving a body which, at the end of the day, really exists as a way for the prime minister of Canada to reward his influential supporters, to keep them comfortable well into their retirement years.

No thanks.

As long as we're doing some belt tightening, it's time to close down this useless (to Canadians) body of gas bags and use the hundred million dollars saved each year to help a few more poor people in this country.