Eliott Dumoulin is a journalist who covers Canada for the French newspaper Le Monde. In this article, he tries to explain to readers back home what’s going on.

  • imrighthere@lemmy.caEnglish
    63·
    2 days ago

    ford is a traitor, he was humping trumps leg and was ready to sell out Canada until it looked bad for him. He is still fucking up healthcare, and selling off greenspaces, and filling his pockets, as is tradition with conservatives. Fucking traitors the lot of them.

    • Typotyper@sh.itjust.works
      419·
      2 days ago

      Any sources because he’s been pretty loudly against trump since the 51st state comments. Not holding back waiting for polls

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
        3·
        23 hours ago

        Yeah, he came out and was a good guy by surprise there.

        I really hope he’s what the future of the Conservative party looks like federally. Not PP or Danielle Smith.

      • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
        36·
        2 days ago

        Ford was caught on hot mic saying he was happy Trump won until tariff threats started.

        “Election day, was I happy this guy won? One hundred per cent I was,” Ford said. “But then the guy pulled out the knife and f–king yanked it into us.”

        https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ford-trump-win-comments-tariffs-1.7449512

        In defence of Ford, he’s done a pretty good job vocally standing up to Trump, but I don’t know anyone in their right mind that would be happy Trump won.

        • Typotyper@sh.itjust.works
          25·
          2 days ago

          Yes, but the original post stated, Ford waited for things to look bad for him before he switched sides. Ford was pretty quick to say fuck them.

          Yes he’s conservative but he’s Canadian first

          To be clear I didn’t vote for him but I could have.

          • lobut@lemmy.ca
            5·
            1 day ago

            Yeah I’m as unhappy as I am he’s in charge … he’s at least got Canada as his priority unlike Danielle Smith.

          • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
            3·
            2 days ago

            Yeah I think as soon as he heard about tariffs again he was immediately aggressive about it.

            He’s an asshole for sure, but he’s our asshole.

            I just don’t know how he forgot about this all when on US election night.

            • tempest@lemmy.ca
              3·
              1 day ago

              Not ‘our’ asshole, just a populist. They see the way the wind in blowing and make a bunch of noise about it and then do what they were always going to do, which is sell off more of the province to Mattamy.