Controversy has always dogged the blond-haired, bombastic 61-year-old Ford. Since becoming premier in 2018, he’s overseen one of the most scandal-plagued governments in Ontario’s history—if not all of Canada. But like U.S. President Donald Trump, nothing really seemed to stick to him. He won two more elections over the past four years, the most recent one last year, giving him the sheen of being the Teflon Premier.

Now it seems his non-stick veneer has finally evaporated. In June, an Angus Reid Institute poll showed Ford was the most unpopular premier in all of Canada by a wide margin—with only 21 per cent support, which was 10 points below the next most unpopular premier. (Ford lashed out at the poll, calling it “fake.”) His unpopularity has seeped into the mainstream media, with newspapers like the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail running editorials and op-eds highlighting the litany of problems that have grown under his reign: Ontario’s overwhelmed and underfunded public services, severe housing crisis, and dire shortage of family doctors.

Ford once seemed invincible, sloughing off scandals. He used his impunity to create a system where corporations, the wealthy, and developers could donate to his party and pay his staffers-turned-lobbyists to get government contracts or laws that benefit them. But while Ontario’s rich made out like bandits, voters are perhaps realizing that Ford’s regime is immiserating their province while their lives are becoming precipitously unaffordable. Are years of corruption and authoritarianism finally catching up to Ford?