Ontario Premier Doug Ford is in a populist mood these days, the likes of which we haven’t really seen since his days as sidekick to his brother Rob at Toronto City Hall. In recent days he has advised homeless people living in encampments to “get off your a-s-s” and get a job — a tad simplistic, I hope we can agree; he has announced the speed limit on 400-series highways will be raised from 100 to 110 km/h — as if that really matters when you’re averaging six; and he has proposed buying the privately owned, tolled Highway 407 — essentially a ring road around Toronto — which is the last bastion of non-gridlock in the entire region.