StarEditorial: Doug Ford’s government missteps by restoring King Counsel title for privileged few
In the endless theatre of human affairs, it is often through the smaller things, not the epic, that we reveal ourselves.The government of which she is part announced last week it was bestowing on Mulroney the newly reinstated honour King’s CounselPerhaps not since David Dingwall, the former federal cabinet minister who later headed the Royal Canadian Mint, declared “I am entitled to my entitlements” has a public figure demonstrated such cluelessness about how their deeds might play.
The restoration of an honour scrapped almost four decades ago was done to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III, according to the province For starters, Premier Doug Ford should not have restored an honour scrapped in 1985. Lawyers are hardly among society’s underdogs. Providing empty honours for them is not a pressing public concern.
In keeping with the practice of the Ford government, there seems to have been little consultation about why the honour was restored, other than as a way to mark the King’s coronation.
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