To Hell With Stongmen Like Ontario Premier Doug Ford Who Are Working To Tear Our Democratic Values and Institutions Down
A Remembrance Day Note by Doug Draper
Posted November 9th, 2026 on Niagara At Large
At a time in our world when there are too many forces threatening democratic freedoms, we should all do what we can to remember and to stand up for those who fought and died for those freedoms in past wars.
So let’s do all we can together as citizens in our communities to do more than pin on a poppy for a few days and take out a few minutes to bow our heads for a few moments of silence on Remembrance Day this coming Wednesday, November 11th.
Let’s do everything we can to stand up to the Doug Fords and Donald Trumps out there who are working every day of the week to diminish and dismantle our democratic institutions.
I can’t imagine for second that the Second World War veterans I got to know where I lived and worked at the time and that I interviewed in my capacity as a newspaper reporter for Remembrance Days gone by would tell me that they put their lives on the line so that a Premier like Doug Ford could replace our elected leaders at the municipal level with ones he appointed and grant them “superpowers” that allowed them to veto any decisions made by the elected representatives who were left.
What incredible B.S. this is coming from Doug Ford, Ontario’s most an anti-democracy premier next to his old buddy Mike Harris like Doug Ford
I can’t imagine those members of our “greatest generation” being impressed with individuals in power like Ford wearing a poppy while they tear apart elected representation in Niagara and other regions across this province and country, and across region south of the border in the United States.
Out of respect for those war heroes, we have to stand up and fight anti-democracy leaders like Doug Ford while we still have some democracy left.
If hat could stand up against hails of bullets, we can at least do that.
- Doug Draper, Niagara At Large
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