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[BrendaRichards @BrendaRichards]

@MarkJCarney Bravo! Long over due.

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

As of yesterday, Ontario is out of compliance with the Canada Health Act because Doug Ford's government missed the federal deadline to fund nurse practitioners.

Now Ontarians are being forced to pay out of pocket for primary care. 2.5 million people don't have a family doctor, and this Minister has no plan to fix it.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.

America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.

Watch and share his message.

[BrendaRichards @BrendaRichards]

@linwood_barclay Congratulations! Sooooo exciting for you. Have fun😊

[Ontario NDP @OntarioNDP]

🚨🚨 SCRAP BILL 5 #UPDATE:

73,000 emails. 8,600 supporters. 86 provincial ridings. Our email campaign to scrap Bill 5 is gaining real momentum. Keep reading to learn what's wrong with Bill 5.

Here's how you can help Protect Ontario from Trump-Style Politics right now:

➡️ RETWEET NOW: Help us get the link to our online campaign in front of as many eyes as possible.

➡️ SEND AN EMAIL: Visit https://t.co/CSxCPcdX8C to add your voice.

➡️ TEXT 3 FRIENDS: Share the link with three friends and ask them to add their voice.

Here's What You Need to Know About Bill 5:

Titled the “Protecting Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act,” Bill 5 is being marketed as a solution to global trade uncertainty and Trump-era tariffs. Premier Doug Ford claims it will:

1) Cut red tape
2) Boost Ontario’s competitiveness
3) Attract investment, particularly in Northern Ontario

But once you dig into the details, those claims collapse.

➡️ Cut Red Tape?

Everyone wants to get Ontario building, faster. But there’s a difference between cutting red tape and cutting corners. Red tape is excessive paperwork. Bill 5 goes far beyond that. It gives Ford's Cabinet the power to override entire laws.

At the heart of the bill is a new framework for “Special Economic Zones,” where Ford’s government can suspend almost any law it chooses. That includes labour laws, constitutionally protected Indigenous rights, and environmental protections. Ministers can exempt hand-picked projects from zoning rules, public consultation, and even legal liability.

And these No-Law Zones aren't just restricted to the North. The Ford government can create them anywhere.

In fact, in a recent media appearance, the Premier admitted he would be looking to use these zones to fast-track his Fantasy $100B 401 Tunnel.

The approach of the government doesn't cut red tape. It cuts democracy out of the process and sidesteps accountability. That's not efficiency, that's recklessness.

➡️ Boost Competitiveness?

Strong economies are built on trust, stability, and partnership. Bill 5 threatens all three.

Business, engineers, First Nations leaders, industry experts, and environmental advocates say this bill invites legal chaos. In Northern Ontario, the duty to consult First Nations isn’t optional—it’s a legal requirement.

Competitive economies don’t silence stakeholders. They work with them. And they win long-term by building certainty, not cutting corners.

This Bill slow-walks disaster. Projects bulldozed through without consent often get bogged down in conflict, delay, and litigation. That’s not competitiveness. That’s instability.

➡️ Attract Investment?

Doug Ford claims this bill will attract investment. But investors don’t come for chaos. They come for certainty.

Bill 5 hands legal immunity to government-chosen “trusted proponents" (government insiders), guts transparency, and lets ministers override the rules at will. That doesn’t inspire confidence, it signals risk. Investors want a stable, predictable environment. They want clear rules and legal certainty, not sudden carve-outs and unchecked political discretion.

And when a project can be pushed through without legally required consultation or public oversight? That’s not a fast track, that’s legal fights and delays waiting to happen. The backlash that follow will stall development, increase costs, and push good investors elsewhere.

If this government was serious about attracting investment, they’d focus on getting it right, not rushing it wrong. The fastest way forward is to build with trust, transparency, and full participation. You don’t win the game by benching half your players.

➡️ The Bigger Picture

Disguised as efficiency, Bill 5 is a sweeping power grab. It’s Trump-style politics cloaked in economic jargon, a tool to hand Ford and his insiders extraordinary control over Ontario’s future.

And we’ve seen this movie before: governments that bulldoze their way through complex problems rarely solve them. They just create new ones, legal, social, and economic.

➡️ How is the Official Opposition NDP Responding?

We’ve been sounding the alarm on Bill 5 since day one.

Our Deputy Leader, @solmamakwa , has been leading the charge, amplifying First Nations leaders who are demanding respect for Treaty rights and the duty to consult. We convened industry experts, labour, and businesses through our Leader’s Advisory Council on Tariff Response and Economic Security and our Working Group on Critical Minerals and the Ring of Fire to work on a better path forward.

In the legislature, we pushed for meaningful amendments to limit Bill 5’s overreach and restore public accountability. And when the government tried to ram this bill through under the cover of darkness, we used every legislative tool we had to slow it down.

On Wednesday, May 28, Ford’s Conservatives scheduled a late-night committee session to push Bill 5 through while Ontarians weren’t watching. But the Ontario NDP Official Opposition held the floor from 4PM to midnight, exposing their tactics, forcing the debate into the light, and successfully delaying Bill 5.

Now, the Ford government is trying to shut down debate entirely. On Thursday, May 29, they introduced a Time Allocation motion to silence committee discussion and allow barely an hour for third reading before forcing a final vote, all to fast-track a bill that gives them unlimited power to override Ontario law.

This is not democracy. It's Trump-style politics, Ford-style power grab.

We’re doing everything we can inside the legislature and we will not back down. But we also need strong public pressure to stop this bill in its tracks.

That’s why we launched a province-wide email campaign, and Ontarians are responding in record numbers:

1) 8,600+ people have already taken part
2) Over 73,000 emails have been sent
3) Across 86 out of 124 provincial ridings

People are making it clear: they won’t be shut out of decisions about their rights, their communities, or their future.

We need to keep going. We need to keep fighting. And together, we can Scrap Bill 5.

Join us: https://t.co/CSxCPcdX8C

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

UPDATE: We hit 7,000 emails yesterday, up from 5,800 earlier in the day.

Let’s push to 7,500 by tonight. Use this link to tell the government to Scrap Bill 5: https://t.co/JcgWwXddcD

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

I’m at Queen’s Park tonight fighting Bill 5 — the PC government's dangerous power grab that lets them override laws at will.

We’re filibustering to stop it. All night if we have to.

[Cheri DiNovo @CheriDiNovo]

When you hear from the Ford gov about how much they're spending on education!!
Currently Ontario has underfunded schools by $6.3 billion since 2018;url=https://t.co/foRFk742V0

[Catherine Fife @CFifeKW]

Students who feel included & safe in their learning environment are more likely to achieve academic success. Banning an inclusive symbol like the Pride Flag is cruel & demeaning for students & families who identify as 2SLGBTQIA+. ‍🌈

Please read my letter to @WaterlooCDSB.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: Justin Trudeau is specifically asked if he believes that Trump's tariffs are an Act of War.

His answer is tremendous.

"Canadians are not angry at the American people for this. We don’t have anything against Americans. Americans are our neighbors, our friends, our partners. We do things together, we’ve done things together for decades and generations. This is a policy decision by the American government (Donald Trump), designed to go after the Canadian economy. This is a trade war — yes. But Canadians are hurt, Canadians are angry. We’re going to choose to not go on vacation to Florida or Old Orchard Beach or wherever. We’re gonna choose to try to buy Canadian products and forgo bourbon and other classic American products. We’re probably going to continue booing the American National Anthem. But let me tell Americans — we’re not booing you, we’re not booing your teams, we’re not booing your players -- we’re booing a policy that is designed to hurt us."

How can anyone view Trump as the good guy in this Trade war?

[Irene Adler @MollyBee_82]

Yeah!!!!!! GO CANADA! 🥰
As a Washingtonian YES please take us!!!
Fuck Trump and all the Republicans who voted him in. #FAFO

[Jo @joannaterry64]

I am begging you all to take a refresher course

[Cheri DiNovo @CheriDiNovo]

An anti-abortion group sponsored that Peterson Poilievre Podcast. Know if you vote for him you’re voting against women’s rights. If you’re a woman don’t vote Conservative!
We deserve control over our own bodies!!

[Adam van Koeverden @vankayak]

The 🇨🇦 House of Commons just voted for:

🥪 Nat’l Healthy School Food
🪥 Dental Care Program
🏡 Affordable Housing
🪖 More Defence spending
⚽️ Support for @TeamCanada athletes

Conservatives voted against it all, but we got it all through for Canadians - cause we work for you.

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

I love this

[Charlie Sykes @SykesCharlie]

Do it, America.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

This video is incredible.

Everyone should RETWEET it so the whole *world* sees it.

[Unlearn16 @unlearn16tweet]

Doug Ford, please make your way to my office. @fordnation #politics #conservative

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

If you support KAMALA HARRIS retweet this ad to help win Michigan. This is not another tweet. This is crucial.

[Fun Tom 🇨🇦 💂 @funtomvids]

POWERFUL... 🤌🏼

🟥 Mark Carney: “When politicians (like Pierre Poilievre) claim our great democracies are broken, it's not because they want to FIX them. It's because they want a license to DEMOLISH...

It's a model that has been USED time and time again: Create an external constraint to STARVE the beast of government, in a misguided view that SLASHING will lead to growing...

...When Poilievre shouts 'axe the tax!', he's really whispering, 'can the plan' and leaving us with NOTHING.

Demolition is NOT a plan.” 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼