Oh gee, who didn’t see this coming?

Canada has a horrid track record when it comes to Freedom of Information requests. When I worked on A Time to Kill, getting police files was a challenge; that’s why US cases were the staple of the show. Universities are exempt entirely.

So that Doug Ford wants to make a cloistered system even more of a black box, should not be surprising; however, the question is why now?

Devising a thesis should not be difficult.

Doug Ford is a go-getter. Call it Blond Ambition.

It is more than obvious that he wants to be Prime Minister. He threw Pierre Poilievre under a bus during the last federal election. This was a devastating snub and prevented the Tories from taking an easy majority from the battered Grits.

Ford would have counted on fellow “Conservative” Donald Trump to be a supporter, and that would have normally given Ford a big boost for his chances.

Except Donald Trump could write a book called The Art of Throwing Allies Under the Bus.

Trump not only decided to slap tariffs against Canada; he made childish threats of annexing the country.

Ford scrambled and improvised flawlessly with his Captain Canada routine, signage, merch and all.

This was something Ford could control with ease.

He could also control getting another majority in Ontario. With no real competition, he could sail to yet another victory.

What he can’t control are the job losses from tariffs and now the US’s bombing of Iran. He can’t control inflation, either.

Plan A was in the trash the second Trump flapped his gums; so what’s Plan B?

Whatever it involves, it was necessary to ensure access to information was cut-off, hinting that whatever the plan, it hasn’t been enacted yet.

But it will be a doozy.