2024: Ford bans bike lanes
https://globalnews.ca/news/10887272/ontario-bike-lane-removal-law-passes/
2025: Ford bans speed cameras
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/speed-cameras-removed-in-two-weeks-9.6960359
2026: Ford increases speed limits
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First around the post really is a major problem in Canada, federally it benefits the Liberals and to a slightly lesser degree, the Conservatives, so neither will ever get rid of it. Gotta love a system where 35% = a majority.
But also don't forget Ford's popularity also came with the promise of $1 beer.
Buck-a-beer (low adoption and discontinued, nobody could afford to make beer that cheap), free license plate stickers (costs the province 1.1B per year to waive that fee), and tough on Trump! (he folds on that last one every time the US threatens another national tariff)