Doug Ford is not governing through chaos. He is governing through distraction.

Keep people focused on beer in corner stores, ticket resellers, and the next headline. Keep the outrage moving. Because while attention is elsewhere, decisions worth billions move forward with far less scrutiny.

The Greenbelt was not an isolated incident. It exposed a pattern, one that keeps resurfacing in the Ontario Place redevelopment, in proposed changes to freedom-of-information law that would shield the Premier and cabinet from public scrutiny, in healthcare funding that falls billions short of maintaining current service levels, and in the quiet centralization of power over institutions that were designed to remain accountable.

None of this is accidental.

At the federal level, Pierre Poilievre is building on a similar approach. Strong messaging. Clear enemies. Simple narratives. But when it comes to national security clearances, Canadians detained in the United States, and the gap between patriotic branding and actual public responsibility, the performance becomes harder to ignore.

This is not about left versus right. It is about how attention gets managed and how power operates when people are not looking closely enough.

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