@ETpro I’m not familiar with Toronto having a huge history corruption (though it’s not my city, so I don’t follow their politics too closely). However, it’s clear that Ford and his cronies are extremely corrupt (his immediate family have been dealing drugs for decades), and we all expect further revelations as he is ushered out of office. Being a good conservative, he utters loudly at every opportunity that he has “saved the city a billion dollars”, and his followers believe him completely, even though this claim has been roundly debunked.
The reason why Ford occurred has less to do with the people feeling “revulsion for rampant corruption” than it does with the recent merger of Toronto with its sprawling suburban regions (which were once towns in their own right) to create one large city. Now the “popular vote” is no longer the city of Toronto at all – it’s the people who fled the city to live at its outskirts. These are more conservative people, who have no interest in making Toronto a liveable place; they want to see cuts to everything that supports a thriving, living city centre. This is why public transit in Toronto is becoming an outmoded disaster, for example.
So Ford calls himself a “man of the people”, portrays himself as a working man’s hero against the fancy liberals who are spending all the money, then says he’ll save them a ton of it by cutting all the “unnecessary” city services (because his voters don’t actually live in the city), then claims he’s done it – when in fact it’s all just bullshit.