Remember when Canadian politics were boring? Don't y'all wish we could go back to those comparatively innocent days? I know I do.
Just imagine the look on Doug's face when he heard that Renata had actually filed. She knows where a lot of bodies are buried and I was wondering if he would be stupid enough to try and screw her over financially.
Unlike her dumbass hubby, Renata didn't spend years with Thug as his younger sibling, being browbeaten, mistreated, picked on and (no doubt) bullied relentlessly. We saw plenty of instances of this dynamic playing out during Mayor Dum Dum's glorious reign - that charmingly public weight loss challenge being the most blatant example - and Rofo was undoubtedly used to giving in to his older brother's brute demands. And I have to say, as much as I despised Rob Ford, on this particular front I couldn't help feeling some small amount of pity for him, however hateful he was in every other respect.
But Renata isn't her husband, and didn't have the years of conditioning to accept this toxic relationship as just "the way things are." If anything, it looks to me like the family regards her as being little more than an employee, somebody to fob their feeble-minded youngest off on because no one else in their right minds would have him. This would engender a less than loving relationship between Renata and her in-laws, to put it politely. And she very likely had no choice about going down this route, if things are currently as dire for her as they appear.
I am sure that one of the articles says it was filed earlier but has only now been made public.
If Ford truly had a lengthy lead-up time in which to broker a more peaceful resolution and didn't, with a party leadership contest then
an election to win, it makes him look 10 times stupider and more reckless, doesn't it? Mr. Savvy Businessman, my ass.
In this morning's press conference, Doug emphasized his unwavering support for Rob's kids, full stop.
Man, oh man. He truly is a piece of shit, isn't he? A sweaty little crook. Utterly transparent and obvious and grubby in every word and gesture. "Who're ya gonna believe, me or yer lyin' eyes?" This, while he's deliberately trying to screw over his late brother's wife and kids, a brother, lest we forget, that he shamelessly exploited for political gain every way he could. And is still doing so!
This is some Montgomery Burns level of mendacity. No, scratch that - it's more like some small town chiseler villain from a Little Orphan Annie strip, circa 1934: "Soon, I'll be able to foreclose on the Widow Brown's farm. Mwah hah hah hah haaa!"
