Doug Ford wants people to hold on just a little longer.Ontario’s populist premier speaks softly into the camera at a recent news conference, his tone subdued, almost pleading.He says he knows people have “COVID fatigue,” but there is a vaccine.
The economy will recover. The province will bounce back.“We just have to hang in there,” Ford said. “There’s going to be some bumps in the road over the next little while.” Ontario enters provincewide lockdown in effort to curb rising coronavirus case counts The empathetic tone has become part of Ford’s rhetorical repertoire in 2020, a year in which the unabashed political street fighter has attempted to transform into the province’s consoling father figure.Ford started the year in much the same.