It takes a lot of political will, and you're right it would be political suicide. Doug ranted and raved at the Liberals financial miss-management of the province, and there was some merit to that. But what Doug said on the campaign trail about what he would do was very vague. If you added up, all the things he said he was going to do, and assuming he won't find $6billion - $8billion in "effciencies" (which he won't), then Doug is projected to run a GREATER DEFICIT than the Liberals & NDP were planning. So it's all mumbo-jumbo.
He's said "not one job will be cut" - so he's backed himself into a bit of a tricky corner. Of course the cop-out will be, "we did not know the books were that bad. Sorry - we'll have to cut jobs now". Expect all hell to break loose at that point!
Many Ford supporters will be rightly pissed off. The Public Sectors unions will dig in for a battle. It was all so predictable - because again, there is NO WAY Doug is finding all those "efficiencies" - that's all a bit of a con!
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