{"id":70344,"date":"2019-06-23T14:18:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T18:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=70344"},"modified":"2019-06-23T15:11:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T19:11:10","slug":"listen-up-premier-fords-reset-might-just-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/listen-up-premier-fords-reset-might-just-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen Up! Premier Ford&#8217;s reset might just work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5890\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5890\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5890\" src=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2015\/10\/HM-0020-2-Profile-picture-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2015\/10\/HM-0020-2-Profile-picture-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2015\/10\/HM-0020-2-Profile-picture.jpg 321w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hugh Mackenzie<br \/>Huntsville Doppler<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s too early to write off Ford<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was surprised by a comment made yesterday by former NDP Premier Bob Rae. He was also interim leader of the Federal Liberals and likely would have become their official leader and perhaps even Prime Minister of Canada were it not for some vicious and bloody backroom politics inside the Liberal camp in days gone by.<\/p>\n<p>I have always liked Bob Rae and consider him a friend. He is loyal to his political views, which are often very different than mine, but he has always shown respect for the business of politics and for those who participate in it, regardless of their partisan positions. In more recent years, he has in many ways risen above politics and become a fierce and effective defender of human rights and is regarded by many, including me, as a statesman.<\/p>\n<p>But yesterday he was not very statesmanlike when he quipped, <em>\u201cIf someone can revoke two appointments the next day, cannot someone revoke a vote a year after?\u201d<\/em>  He was referring of course to the political woes of Premier Doug Ford and posturing that it would be nice if we could simply revoke the election results of a year ago that gave Doug Ford a strong majority government. I was surprised by this comment because Bob Rae knows better.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>He has no reason to like or support Doug Ford. But he has every reason to know how hard it is for a new Premier to govern during their first year in office. After all he has been there and done that. The challenges and problems of course were different, but Bob Rae had a terrible time during his early years as Premier. Even his own Party turned against him. I was there and I saw it.<\/p>\n<p>The one thing and probably the only thing that Bob Rae and Doug Ford have in common is that they both inherited, when assuming office, a huge economic problem. In Rae\u2019s case it was a recession. In Ford\u2019s case, it was an overwhelming public debt that will be devastating to Ontario\u2019s future if it is not seriously reined in.<\/p>\n<p>I am not a charter member of Ford Nation. In fact. I voted for Christine Elliott during the Ontario Conservative leadership race. But Doug Ford and his government were elected with a strong mandate to deal with Ontario\u2019s economic mess; to reduce the size of government and to cut costs. I support that.<\/p>\n<p>What I do not support and what obviously, if you believe the polls, what many other people do not support is the knee-jerk and arbitrary way the Ford Government has gone about doing what they were elected to do, without any apparent, comprehensive plan. Along the way they have made some serious mistakes and of course when it comes to cuts, many of those who support the need for them in theory quickly have a different view when it happens in their own back yard.<\/p>\n<p>And so it was time for a reset; the right thing for a Premier to do after a year in government and to the horror of much of the media, who want to see this government fail, it just might work.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Rob Phillips will be a much more effective Finance Minister than was Vic Fedeli, who got the top job in the Ford Government primarily for his role in sabotaging former party leader Patrick Brown. Phillips is much more qualified. For starters he has an MBA and is a graduate of the Rotman School of Management. He has vast business experience including stints as the Chair of Post Media and President and CEO of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation. He is highly regarded and respected in the financial community. Frankly, he should have had the job in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Phillips is strategic. He will discourage knee-jerk reactions. He will do what needs to be done to cut the size and cost of government to an affordable level, but he will do it in a well-planned and consultative manner. That is all we can ask for.<\/p>\n<p>Other Ministers who were moved in the Ford shuffle were moved for the right reasons; some because their talents were needed elsewhere, others because they were not effective where they were. It is a leader\u2019s job to know when that has to happen.<\/p>\n<p>It is also the leader\u2019s job to know when things are not going well in his own office. This is always the toughest job because leaders tend to surround themselves with people they know and trust and whose loyalty is unquestioned. But Dean French had to go. In simple terms, Dean French, as Ford\u2019s Chief of Staff, had alienated the Conservative Caucus, the very opposite of what he was supposed to do. In them, he fostered a culture of fear rather than a culture of loyalty. That can be deadly to any Premier.<\/p>\n<p>What Premier Ford desperately needs is a Chief of Staff who knows how to treat caucus and cabinet members with respect, not as trained monkeys. He may have that already with the Acting Chief of Staff Jamie Wallace, who has extensive Party and Government experience and is known for his even and respectful temperament and his strategic mind.<\/p>\n<p>I think of Hugh Segal, who was Chief of Staff to Brian Mulroney during a tough time in his mandate as Prime Minister of Canada. He made sure that Mulroney\u2019s caucus would take a bullet for him if need be. Segal treated caucus as the government\u2019s most important asset. He made sure they were highly respected, that they were fed, watered and cared for. By doing so, when times were tough caucus was there for the Prime Minister. Doug Ford does not need a Chief of Staff who intimidates caucus. He needs a Chief of Staff like Hugh Segal.<\/p>\n<p>Significant changes have been made in Doug Ford\u2019s government. Time will tell if they will make a meaningful difference in his popularity or his effectiveness. But in spite of the eagerness of some to do so, it is much too early to write him off.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler! Sign up for our free newsletter <\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was time for a reset; the right thing for a Premier to do after a year in Government, and to the horror of much of the media, who want to see this government fail, it just might work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26,1696,442,829],"class_list":["post-70344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","tag-breaking","tag-doug-ford","tag-hugh-mackenzie","tag-listen-up"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Listen Up! 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