The problem is not that the Ontario government fired Brad Blair, the deputy commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police. The problem is that the firing looks dirty – political, punitive and small — because everything about the Blair story thus far has been dirty in the same way. First, Ontario Premier Doug Ford hired his old friend, former Toronto police superintendent Ron Taverner, as the next OPP commissioner. He lost the interim commissioner’s job, and now has been fired outright after almost 33 years on the job for the OPP. But I’d rather sing the chorus of an old Northern Pikes’ song: “She ain’t pretty, she just looks that way.”cblatchford@postmedia.com

Source: National Post March 05, 2019 21:56 UTC