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After a brief stint at donning the Captain Canada suit…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doug the Thug is back!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford is congratulating a Vaughan resident who shot an intruder, saying he should have fired more shots at him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs for the person that was defending his family, he was a legal gun owner, stored properly \u2014 congratulations. Yeah, I\u2019m glad you shot the guy. Teach the rest of these robbers,\u201d Ford said at an unrelated news conference Wednesday when asked about the incident. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He added, \u201cThese guys, they need to be shot, as far as I\u2019m concerned. They\u2019re coming through the front door to hurt your family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Congratulations for shooting this guy \u2014 should have shot him a couple more times as far as I’m concerned,” Ford said, after being asked about the incident at an unrelated news conference Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ford went on in his response to attack the federal government for “going after legal, law-abiding gun owners,” as well as “weak-kneed judges” who are letting people out on bail. Police say the accused in this case was on probation at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“They always want to protect the bad guys, the judges always want to protect the Charter rights \u2014 how about the charter of rights of the people, to keep them safe rather than always protecting these criminals,” Ford said. “I’m just sick and tired of it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford has acknowledged his government is clamping down on access to information laws to shield government-related calls he makes and receives on his personal phone.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The province is in the process of overhauling how freedom of information<\/a> works in Ontario to retroactively exempt all calls and texts from the premier, his cabinet and their staff from public scrutiny.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After a brief stint at donning the Captain Canada suit… Doug the Thug is back! Ontario Premier Doug Ford is congratulating a Vaughan resident who shot an intruder, saying he should have fired more shots at him.  \u201cAs for the person that was defending his family, he was a legal gun owner, stored properly \u2014 … Continue reading “The Thug is back!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32862"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32884,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32862\/revisions\/32884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}