Yesterday, Ontario’s governor (premier) Doug Ford unloaded after a reporter asked him about the Emergencies Act, with a follow-up question about Canada’s vaxpass. I’m going to repeat Ford’s answer verbatim, it was that remarkable. Remember — this is the same Doug Ford who was touting a different line just a week ago.

I know this is going to be hard to believe but he said to lay off the unvaccinated, because it makes no difference to infections:

“You can go shopping … [and] you don’t know if the person beside you has the shot or not. But we also know that it doesn’t matter if you have one shot or ten shots. You can catch Covid. See, the Prime Minister has triple shots; I know hundreds of people with three shots that caught Covid. We just have to be careful, always make sure we wash our hands, and move forward.”

However, it’s can’t just be about infections anymore. He said it’s really about democracy and freedom and liberty:

“ And every single person including myself knows people that’re unvaccinated. Sure, there’s the rabble rousers. And then there’s just hard-working people that just don’t believe in it. And that’s THEIR CHOICE. This is about — again — a democracy and freedoms and liberties. I hate, as a government, telling anyone what to do.”

Whaattt? Now if that wasn’t enough he doubles down and said it’s about time we got on with our lives, and along the way, he cursed the masks:

“We can’t stay in this position forever. We’ve got to learn to live with this and get on with our lives. I bet if I asked every single person in this room do you want these damn masks or do you want them off — they want ‘em off. They want to get back to normal. They want to be able to go out to dinner with their families.”

Me thinks these words were not just directed at the reporter asking the question, but to the citizens of Ontario and most importantly at our tyrannical Prime Minister, whose isn’t ready to give in to the truckers, not just yet. If you’re wondering which side of this Ford’s going to land on, it’s quite telling:

“We just got to get moving forward and get out of this and protect the jobs. You know, I think a lot of people — probably yourself too — everyone’s done with this. Like, we are DONE with it. Let’s start moving on, and cautiously. We’ve followed the rules. All of us. 90% of us. For over two years. The world’s done with it. So let’s just move forward.”

While Ford was talking to a reporter, answering his question, I’m thinking what he was really saying was “this is political suicide, and the longer it goes one the more it hurts all of us politically, so just exactly what you are waiting for Justin, it’s time to bring this to an end!”

In a moment such as this I can only think of the famous line from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, “Justin...? Justin...? Justin...?”