Bruce Arthur is a hack.
Ford has had a very terrible last 2 weeks, that's on him. Banning people from going to outdoor parks but letting groups of 10 go inside religious places of worship and have weddings etc is a stupid decision. Stop the weddings, stop the funerals, stop the church-going.
But this certainly isn't all the province's fault. The GTA is a mess. Peel is a mess. The GTA and Peel have a ton of immigrant families, such as large South Asian families, who have many family members living on the same street and/or in the same household, kids and relatives from large families of different households on the same street playing together, eating together etc. It's IMPOSSIBLE to stop that if people aren't following orders. Then you add dense apartment buildings/condos across the city on top of that. Then you add the many essential workers in these racialized communities. And where's mayor John Tory in all this? Where's Patrick Brown in Brampton? The GTA is different beast, it isn't Edmonton or Halifax or Ottawa, it has over 6 million people packed tightly together, and there's hardly any green-space anywhere compared to most other Canadian cities. I can't imagine the parks over the last year in GTA, they must be packed with people.
People aren't following guidelines, people aren't taking this seriously. They can't enforce person A going over to person B's house for dinner. Ford tried to bring in arbitrary police checks but it was cancelled due to community outcry. GTA needs to get its sh!t together.