The Ford government's $750 classroom gift card gimmick was insulting and admits that our schools are underfunded.
Asking teachers to buy classroom supplies is like asking nurses to shop for medical supplies before work because the hospital can't provide them.
Now we learn that $300 of the promised $750 isn't even new funding - it's being taken from existing education dollars. That's not an investment in public education. It's a shell game.
Ontario students and educators deserve properly funded classrooms, not government announcements that sound bigger than they really are. #onpoli #onted
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I wrote to Prime Minister Carney today.
Doug Ford said Canada wasn't for sale. Then he rammed through the Billy Bishop expansion – pushed by an American company tied to JP Morgan.
Toronto's waterfront is being handed to Wall Street.
The expansion can't proceed without federal approval. Prime Minister, don't approve it.
@SarahPiers5602@leenan05738343@ColinDMello@Nannynannynanoo I take your point regarding healthcare but Ford has had 8 years and has made it worse. Fed money was given and there’s no accounting for it. Sorry but education funding has dropped considerably under Ford. Money didn’t teach the classrooms.
Doug Ford said returning his luxury jet wouldn’t cost Ontario taxpayers anything. He lied.
Turns out taxpayers got stuck with a nearly $200,000 bill just to return it.
Meanwhile, people can’t afford groceries, mortgage/rent, or get health care.
Priorities. #onpoli
I want an Ontario Liberal Party that focuses on the needs of the residents of Ontario. If that means electing someone like Nate & making a coalition with the ONDP to save us from Doug Ford then get it done.
Today's Auditor General reports are damning:
Fraud in commercial truck driver licensing – despite years of warnings and deaths on our highways.
Failing supports for students with special needs.
Massive delays at the Family Responsibility Office.
The Ford government can't deliver basic services.
BREAKING: Doug Ford’s luxury jet cost taxpayers nearly $200,000 in additional fees.
He told us there were no additional costs for returning it.
He lied.
While Ontarians can’t afford groceries or rent, Ford is living like a rockstar on your dime.
The CONSERVATIVES under MIKE HARRIS brought you Privatization of Water TESTING, which brought you the POISONING of WALKERTON. 5 people died. About 20 children ended up with KIDNEY PROBLEMS for the rest of their lives. Doug FORD needs to GO.
Eight years in @fordnation is tired and out of touch.
You can’t get much more out of touch than buying a private luxury jet when so many families are facing financial struggles.
Especially since he still believes it is the right thing to do.
He is clearly loosing touch.
While we're skipping meals, hitting up food banks and trying our best to survive this is where @fordnation & his DONORS had f'cking BREAKFAST this morning. You PAID for this Ontario
If Premier Ford was in touch with the people he'd agree with them that they shouldn't wait 10 hours to see an ER doctor and they shouldn't be on an ER stretcher for days waiting for a hospital bed. That would be in touch with the people.