Fire Brown now

Vincent J. Curtis

17 Dec 21

Adalsteinn Brown, a some time advisor to Premier Doug Ford, needs to be fired - immediately!  Brown is now on record giving political advice to the Premier in public.  I refer to his statement that Ontario needs a “circuit breaker” to slow down the growth of the fourth wave. A circuit breaker means some kind of lockdown measures.

If Premier Ford ignored his advice, then he would be seen as ignoring the advice of “experts,” and Brown would have little choice but to resign if he truly believed in his publicly given advice.  If Ford accepted his advice, then he is seen as the captive of the experts, unable to exercise independent judgement.  The latter is an intolerable position for the head of the government.

Brown probably gave Ford his circuit-breaker advice privately, and so there was no need for him to become a political figure himself by making his advice public.  If Brown wants to give political advice publicly, then he should run for office himself.

Either way, he has no business advising Premier Ford any further, and if Brown won’t resign immediately for his mistake, then Ford should fire him.

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