To me Mr. Trump is odious for many reasons but I’m qualified to criticize primarily his terrible environment protection policies, and those of his appointees. This video pokes fun at Trump in general and can be shared anywhere. If you want the screens as single images, find them here on the Politics page and share them too.

Doug Ford’s SUV

On the Politics page scroll down for some similar photoshops about Doug Ford.

I’m unhappy with Mr. Ford who is ahead in the polls and might become the next Premier in Ontario and who has no clue about regional or national economics, saying he would wipe out the polluter-pays cap and trade program partnership with California and Quebec. It sounds like he would also do everything he can to damage 3,000 clean energy companies and 65,000 clean energy jobs in Ontario. Only 1500 people in the province work in oil and gas. This just makes no sense at all.

He was born wealthy (although he pretends he’s one of the ‘folks’ like Trump), and most of his education was related to the family printing business and the family pastime of football. His brother was the crack smoking late Mayor Rob Ford, and Doug has coasted on Rob’s ‘achievements.’ He calls himself a businessman but I worked with him, and he’s not what I would call brilliant in that area either.

Sadly, the existing Liberal government has been in power so long that people are restless for a change. It didn’t help that the government bungled the energy file both politically and in reality. They privatized part of the provincial hydro company just before rates shot up. People think the two were related but really decades of bad decisions around nuclear were a big contributor (45%), and old infrastructure that needed upgrading (49%) like in every jurisdiction added to the financial mess. Then of course, the trolls started blaming clean energy (6%).

Kathleen Wynne, whose actual policies in non-energy areas are quite good, is in big political trouble. And like so many politicians she gambled on staying put, when maybe a new leader could have refreshed things. It’s unfortunate, because this Doug Ford person is a populist like Trump and is just going to slash everything like a previous premier named Mike Harris, who made a real mess.