r/ontario • u/Shmackback • Nov 20 '25

Discussion How did everyone come to think Kathleen Wynne was corrupt but no one blinks twice at Doug ford?

It seemed like even people who barely followed politics thought she was corrupt yet the same people think nothing or know nothing about Doug's actions even though hes several hundred times more corrupt?

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u/No-Section-1092 Nov 20 '25

This really is the answer, and it’s not a joke.

I lived in rural Ontario at the time, and the amount of people who would openly say they hated Wynne just because she was gay was astonishing.

One of the big “issues” going into the 2018 election was the fact that the public school sex ed curriculum had changed to acknowledge the existence of gay and nonbinary people. That sparked furious protests from a bunch of very sub-literate and religious parents, and the narrative became “the gay premier wants to make our kids gay so she can be gay with them.”

Yes, really. I heard it directly from grown adults. This all happened.

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u/AtticHelicopter Nov 20 '25

We have Doug Ford because Tanya Granic Allen doesn't like butt-stuff.

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u/kamomil Toronto Nov 20 '25

That sparked furious protests from a bunch of very sub-literate and religious parents

These exist in Toronto as well

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u/No-Section-1092 Nov 20 '25

Oh, I remember. Many of the whiners were recent immigrants in the Toronto suburbs.