NOW Magazine
Doug Ford’s useful idiot becomes a political scapegoat
Ontario s chief medical officer of health David Williams has outlived his usefulness now that he can no longer provide cover for the Ford government s bad pandemic decisions By Enzo DiMatteo
David Williams (left) with his associate chief medical officer of health Barbara Yaffe.
It’s more accurate to say that Williams has been thrown under the bus. The Ford government’s useful idiot during the pandemic has become its political scapegoat.
Williams’s exit is a case of good riddance for most. The Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) and a number of leading epidemiologists serving on the province’s science advisory table have been calling for his resignation for months. NDP leader Andrea Horwath called the timing of the announcement “fishy.”