There is another extremely relevant angle to this. When Ford signed a $5.5B with a U.S bank for the islands, $9B to Hitachi U.S OntLine, Lecce's $21B Hitachi U.S reactors and $140M U.S Hospital facade all those deals removed those amounts from OUR GDP. Ford is working against us.
So let me get this straight…
Doug Ford can take a 102-day summer break with full pay, taxpayer-funded pensions, benefits, travel budgets, and perks while classrooms are overcrowded, hospitals are understaffed, ERs are closing, and families are struggling to survive?
Teachers are being told there’s “not enough money” for smaller class sizes, educational assistants, special education supports, or properly funded public schools.
Healthcare workers are burning out. Parents can’t find family doctors. Students are falling through the cracks. But Queen’s Park gets a 3+ month vacation?
How is this acceptable?
And before anyone says politicians still “work behind the scenes,” most Ontarians don’t get 102 days off with six-figure salaries and guaranteed pensions while the systems WE pay for collapse around us.
Public education and healthcare are not luxuries. They are the backbone of a functioning society.
Maybe if politicians had to live in overcrowded classrooms, wait 14 hours in ERs, or watch children lose supports because there aren’t enough EAs, they’d stop treating public services like a budget line to cut while protecting their own comfort.
Ontario deserves better than a government that always seems to find money for itself while telling everyone else to lower their expectations.
Attendance report card:
Data tracked by the Ontario NDP shows Premier Doug Ford skipped roughly one in three sessions of question period during the spring sitting and was only present for 7 full-length sessions.
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#onpoli
But he did say sorry! 😒
A woman was beaten with a baseball bat in her own bedroom during a home invasion.
Her children hid in fear while one called 911. The judge called it a “heinous crime of violence” and said the offender would normally be facing five years or more.
Instead, his sentence was reduced because of rehabilitation and remorse.
The victim still lives with the trauma. The offender gets credit for turning his life around.
Welcome to the debate at the heart of Canada’s fucked up justice system.
Rehabilitation should not be a factor in sentencing.
#onpoli #cdnpoli
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Ontario, Harmon Brampton announced its closure two days after it didn't win the $140 million facade subcontract for Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital after MAGA Ford's regime awarded $140M subcontract to a U.S. company as 700,000 Ontarians were unemployed.
Alberta lost over 350 physician registrations in one quarter.
At a time when families can’t find a family doctor, the UCP is failing to recruit &retain physicians.
Instead of fixing primary care, they are focused privatization.
Albertans deserve better. https://t.co/5Vc6uFJrrN
In front of cameras, Doug likes to portray himself as folksy with his lame shtick & stunts. But behind the cameras, when people stand up to him like MPP Will Bouma did or reporters like Tina who holds him to account, well they get fired.
FFS! Ford is taking a 148 day summer break! He may be hiding at his Muskoka Mansion to avoid accountability for his Gravy Plane and other scandals but the PEOPLE of Ontario will not let him! #FightFord
@AndrewScheer Hard to believe this stunned cunt stole hundreds of thousands from the Conservative fund for a minivan and to pay for private school for his kids. Harder to believe? that he thinks these third rate video's matter to anyone other than someone with the IQ of lettuce.
So let me get this straight.
Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.
Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.
Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.
Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.
And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”
Please.
The Ford government confirmed we won’t be back at Queen’s Park for 102 days.
While I’m excited to spend the summer in Nepean meeting with residents, businesses, and community groups, Ontarians deserve a government that’s willing to show up and do its job.
After calling a snap election to “Protect Ontario,” it’s hard to understand why this government is taking 5 months off while families continue to struggle with the cost of living, health care, and housing. #onpoli