NOT MY FAULT SAYS DOUG FORD ABOUT HIS SELF-INFLICTED KC POLITICAL BLUNDER – Although they claim the King’s Counsel designations went through a rigorous application process they did not. According to Robert Benzie of The Star: “It may have been Ford’s eagerness to please that led to his government’s ongoing King’s Counsel patronage fiasco. As first revealed by Jacques Gallant, Attorney General Doug Downey revived the controversial honour for lawyers late on the Friday of the Canada Day long weekend, four decades after former Liberal premier David Peterson scrapped it. “I didn’t approve any list, I didn’t see a list,” a defensive Ford said of the 91 lawyers awarded — which included dozens of Tory MPPs, cabinet ministers, staffers, donors, and loyalists. “I have confidence in my attorney general. But I think we have to have a rigorous application process, which we will be doing moving forward,” he said. “To be very frank, I have so many other more important issues than putting KC behind a bunch of lawyers’ names.” Adding salt to the Tories’ self-inflicted wound, Gallant found that no Liberal or NDP attorneys general were offered KCs.”