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The best fun I’ve had this summer, apart from watching my tomatoes ripen, has been seeing the pant-wetting reaction from Ontario’s elites as Premier Doug Ford rolls back the rock on the Kathleen Wynne era.

Premier Ford. Two months on, I’m still trying to wrap my head around the idea that the brother of the late headline-snagging, out-of-control Toronto mayor Rob Ford now leads Canada’s most populous province.

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Ford is a flawed politician (aren’t they all) in a position that’s a big reach and at some point those flaws will be exposed. But right now, fast out of the gate, he’s delivering as promised, to the horror of his foes but to the great satisfaction of the millions who voted to reverse course and keep Ontario from going over the fiscal cliff.

The highlight so far has been watching downtown Toronto politicians and a big chunk of the city’s left-leaning media, led by the Toronto Star, go bonkers over the Ford government’s decision to slash the number of Toronto wards from 47 to 25 before the fall municipal election.