{"id":170004,"date":"2018-07-09T04:16:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T08:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=170004"},"modified":"2025-01-13T18:10:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T23:10:44","slug":"davids-blog-make-ontario-great-again-not-quite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/09\/davids-blog-make-ontario-great-again-not-quite\/","title":{"rendered":"David\u2019s Blog: Make Ontario Great Again? Not quite"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CICNews founder, Attorney David Cohen. (Photo: CIC News<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Doug Ford\u2019s election at the start of June as the Premier of Ontario, Canada\u2019s most populous province, has elicited numerous comparisons to Donald Trump \u2014 except when it comes to immigration.
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\nLike Trump, Ford inherited a fortune built by his father and yet successfully managed to portray himself as an average guy in it for his fellow average guys.<\/p>\n

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And like Trump, Ford addressed voters\u2019 economic and social anxieties in stripped down language while railing against the so-called elites, sparking a populist surge that caught many by surprise.<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s the issue of immigration.<\/p>\n

As we all know, Trump put immigration front and centre as a key concern that he promised to address if elected.<\/p>\n

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He portrayed immigrants and immigration as clear and present dangers both to national security and to the job security of American workers.<\/p>\n

His supporters \u2013 many of them white men without a college degree \u2013 welcomed his talk of restoring their privilege in a rapidly globalizing world, the not-so-subtle subtext of his \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d campaign slogan.<\/p>\n

Similar meaning could be read into Doug Ford\u2019s \u201cFor the People\u201d slogan, but \u201cthe people\u201d in question, his supporters, were a much more multicultural mix.<\/p>\n

Ford appealed across racial and ethnic lines with a message of tax cuts and a promise to revisit, among other policies, the outgoing Liberal government\u2019s high school sex-ed curriculum, which was deeply unpopular with more conservative voters, including many new Canadians.<\/p>\n

Despite this backing, comparisons to Trump gained renewed vigour during the election campaign when Ford asserted during a leaders\u2019 debate that Ontario should \u201clook after our own first\u201d rather than encouraging greater immigration to its population-challenged northern regions.<\/p>\n

Ford tried to dispel the ensuing controversy by pointing to his immigrant supporters as proof that he wasn\u2019t Canada\u2019s Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no politician that probably has more support out there for new Canadians,\u201d Ford said. \u201cFord Nation\u2019s full of new Canadians,\u201d he added, referring to the term given to his core supporters.<\/p>\n

Ford then pledged to create more spaces for apprenticeships and \u201cdo everything in our power\u201d to ensure professional credentials held by new immigrants are recognized.
\nOne of the more thorough analyses of Ford\u2019s relationship with new Canadians was published by Vice News as the Ontario election entered its final weeks.<\/p>\n

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Journalist Tamara Khandaker wrote that whatever Ford feels personally, the strength of immigrant communities in Ontario, and especially in key ridings on the outskirts of Toronto, has made appealing to their various concerns a political necessity.<\/p>\n

Likewise, immigrant supporters of Ford interviewed dismissed his history of controversial remarks on race, chalking them up to what Khandaker said was \u201ca refusal to be politically incorrect and accept the idea of urban Liberals.\u201d As long as he does what he says he\u2019s going to do on taxes, public transit and other issues, his immigrant supporters said they weren\u2019t concerned. \u201cDoug Ford is a businessman, and that\u2019s what Ontario needs right now,\u201d one told Khandaker.<\/p>\n

Writing in Washington Post in the wake of Ford\u2019s win on June 7, University of Toronto professor Peter Loewen said the result \u201cdid not signal a wholesale transplant of Trumpian populism to Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n

While certainly populist in his disdain for elites and the liberal mainstream media, Loewen wrote that the kind of populism represented by Ford \u201cis not, at its core, anti-immigrant.\u201d
\n\u201cThis is a form of populism in a country in which 1 in 5 citizens are born abroad, and especially with a city, Toronto, where the number is nearly half,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a kind of populism that made Doug Ford laugh at a proposal from some supporters that he adopt \u201cMake Ontario Great Again\u201d as his campaign slogan, but ultimately dispel it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m worried with Ontario. I\u2019m not worried about what\u2019s going down in the states,\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s hope his concerns continue to be for immigrants, and not about them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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