Doug Ford doesn’t understand much about the private sector

In the City Hall drinking game, every time Councillor Doug Ford gets up and starts a speech with the words “folks, let me tell you how it works in the private sector…” you have to chug. Which is why there is so much drunkenness around the Bay and Queen area.

A lot of Ford opponents most loudly object to this rhetorical crutch on the grounds that you cannot and should not run government like a business, since they are two different types of enterprises with two very different goals. (Short version: for most government enterprises, the smart business move would be to shut them down, since they will never be profitable, since the very reason they exist is to deliver services that are not profitable to deliver.) But when we get hung up on that point of principle, we also let slip another major observation, which is that Doug Ford appears to be completely financially illiterate.