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As of deadline Tuesday a whopping 13,248 voted.

And 80.4% — or 10,651 voters — said yes. The number of those who voted no was 2,597 which adds up to 19.6%.

“Ford is acting on the promises that the people voted him for,” said reader Steve Lombardi.

“Ford said ‘enough’ and actually (has) the balls to fight back hard.”

Wrote Wayne Fraser: “I applaud Doug and company for moving forward with the notwithstanding clause … If this nonsense of a single judge overturning legislation doesn’t stop, then at least let us have the ability to elect judges.”

But it also did not come as a surprise to the premier that his political and personal enemies are fighting back.

“It’s just the left wing agenda (and about) saving NDP jobs,” he said of the loud media noise that makes it seem like there is outrage.

The ones who seemed most outraged are the ones whose jobs might be in jeopardy or those who are political foes.

“Hopefully they were talking about jobs and not worrying about saving politician jobs,” the premier said only partially in jest.

That barb was for Tory. He had one for Trudeau too.

“I hope they were talking about the (less than robust) free trade (talks),” said Ford.

Saying “we are taking a stand” against those who have had power for so long but have achieved so little, the premier said all leaders’ focus should be on jobs, streamlining regulations and gridlock to encourage efficiencies and a climate to create jobs for more than just politically empowered.

Seems a large majority of the province agrees.