Now, there’s nothing particularly extraordinary about any of this. Premiers get behind projects like this all the time. There’s nothing wrong with Ford stumping for the Niagara region, or inviting Big Casino to take greater interest … although you would think Big Casino would know how and where to make money just fine. But this is, after all, part of a “multibillion-dollar strategy.” The taxpayer, Ford Nation’s supposed lodestar, is very much implicated.







