Doug Ford’s political porn cheapens Ontario democracy

There’s nothing wrong with tough election ads. But everyone involved should be aware by now of the mounting danger to democratic norms from the flood of false and misleading data on politics and everything else on the internet.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has started early because of election spending rules and because he has to try to overcome his low personal standing with voters resulting from his inept handling of the later stages of the COVID-19 emergency, writes Les Whittington. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

November 10, 2021

OTTAWA—Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who will face voters next June, wants to run against former Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne again. Eight months before the election, Ford and his Stephen Harper brain trust have released a series of ads trying to tie the current provincial Liberal Party to the unp...

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