{"id":22852,"date":"2013-11-06T11:41:58","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T16:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=22852"},"modified":"2013-11-06T14:27:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T19:27:22","slug":"dear-mayor-ford-among-our-living-national-treasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/11\/06\/dear-mayor-ford-among-our-living-national-treasures\/","title":{"rendered":"“Dear Mayor Ford: among our living national treasures”"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Warren<\/a> explains why Toronto’s Mayor Rob Ford had to exist:<\/p>\n

… every left-thinking person in the Greater Parkdale Area had been teased to apoplexy by the contemplation of this gentleman. This because he was: 1. fat, 2. colourful, 3. rightwing &, 4. freely elected by a large margin over some gay leftwing establishment darling. (Some other reasons have accumulated since then.)<\/p>\n

Turns out, the police have recovered some video in which \u2014 it is alleged \u2014 our peerless mayor is shown doing crack with local low-life. Whether smoking or snorting or otherwise ingesting, we do not know, & neither apparently does our splendid mayor, who now says he was actually too drunk to remember the occasion. Dear Mayor Ford: among our living national treasures.<\/p>\n

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Quite frankly, we tried mayors who were not<\/em> crackheads. They didn\u2019t work out. Also, the last one didn\u2019t drink enough. That\u2019s why we elected Ford. He\u2019s doing great: slashing through the city bureaucracy & privatizing everything he can. He even holds the civic unions in subjection: not one has dared to strike. And ho, he\u2019s trying to build subways. Anyone who has attempted to ride a trolley across this town will understand our need to tunnel. So what<\/em> is the problem?<\/p>\n

As our good, excellent mayor told his Police Chief: bring on your video! Ford says he\u2019s curious to see it himself, & that the rest of Toronto would surely also like a chance to catch it on YouTube<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Gentle reader knows I am a traditionalist in most things, & a loyal Canadian. Our very first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, was a magnificent drunkard, who managed to hold office for nearly twenty years. There is an Arabian Nights of anecdotes that our primly officious historians have been too shy to tell. Verily, half of Macdonald\u2019s Cabinet were awash most evenings, & the debates in Parliament were enlivened thereby. Almost all the damage ever done to this country was by sobersides.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Update<\/b>: Take it away, Taiwanese animators!<\/p>\n