Has the Doug Ford government absolutely run out of ideas?

The Ontario provincial government is spending a disproportionate amount of time on policy tweaks and micro-adjustments that wouldn’t even make the A level at a city council. Its latest moves are only peripherally connected to the province’s major issues, which are its lagging economy, the housing crisis, and the increasing unaffordability of everyday life.

Whether it is minor changes to rules for renters, speed cameras, meddling with bicycle lanes or inconsequential changes to bail rules, the Ford government is fiddling at the margins, not going after the big stuff. Nothing is too small for this government to address. It recently announced that it was “investing” $10 million to fix potholes in small municipalities.

Perhaps that

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