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Kelly McParland: Doug Ford tempts fate with suite of snafus

A series of blunders have Conservative support in sudden decline

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Canada doesn’t have term limits on its highest political offices, but perhaps it should have, if only for the benefit of the office holders.

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Call it mercy legislation. An Act to Save Senior Politicians from the Humiliations of their own Hubris.

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It needn’t necessarily be compulsory, but would entail high-level interventions with ruling authorities once they hit the eight-year mark of their mandate, strongly recommending they carefully consider alternative careers, starting next weekend. An alternative title might be the Save Them From Themselves Act.

It might have saved Justin Trudeau from being driven from office by his own caucus in year nine of his prime ministership. Ditto Stephen Harper, who could have parted before the mistakes that saw him lose to Trudeau in his own year nine. In 2022 Quebec Premier François Legault was so popular he won 40 per cent of the vote in a five-party race and added 14 seats to his majority; he didn’t even make it to the end of his mandate, stepping down in April with a popularity rating just this side of a cholera attack.

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