Somewhere along the congested streets of Canada’s biggest and most traffic-clogged city, Ontario Premier Doug Ford careened dramatically out of his lane as a law-and-order, cops-are-tops sort of guy.

The premier makes no effort to hide his affection for the province’s police. Early on in his first term, he got in trouble for trying to hire a family pal as head of the Ontario Provincial Police. He complains about “bleeding heart judges” who get in the way of tossing bad guys behind bars. He was pleased to be endorsed by the 8,000 member Toronto Police Association in his latest run for office. His daughter is married to a cop.

Yet through some convoluted road accident in reasoning, Ford has concluded that obeying the law ends when vehicles speeding through school zones and residential neig

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