Instead of debunking these points I want to suggest the following exercise: sometime over the next week try to file an FOI to collect information the government has about YOU. Report back how easy it was to navigate and how quick the process was.
The Ontario PCs are dressing this up as privacy and strength (?) and will rely on how little general knowledge exists about FOI processes in an attempt to convince folks this is fine.
It applies retroactively to in progress FOIs, extends timelines for government response, and effectively undoes decades of advocacy work that ensures a modicum of transparency in our government.
ICYMI: yesterday the Ford government announced their intent to change the Freedom of Information Act to deny the public access to documents held by the offices of the premier and his ministers, including by their parliamentary assistants and staff. #ONpoli
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I made this list in light of Ford’s convention centre statements, who knew it would come in handy with fresh context? Doug should invest in SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition instead of making his fantasies all of our problem. #onpoli
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People seem to have book stores and food covered…are you interested in some of my favourite trees? Small ponds (the ducks are out!)? Thrift store to mosey through?
Chat; is drinking coffee antisemitic?
$200 million community resiliency fund for nonprofits in regions impacted by U.S. tariffs
$2.2M–$5.3M/year over 5 years to expand social day programming for dementia
$500 million annually over five years to harmonize community health care worker wages
8.8% Level of Care funding increase plus permanent inflation indexing for long-term care
$200 million annually to maintain regional access at small, northern, rural, and French-language colleges
$200 million to expand college seats in trades, technology, health care, and advanced manufacturing
$6 million over three years to support medical laboratory preceptors and address rural lab shortages
5.6% funding increase for 2026-27 to maintain four hours of direct care in long-term care homes
$52M/year operating + $193M capital to build 1,000 new mental health and addictions supportive housing units
$300 million to close the mental health and addictions workforce wage gap within 3 years
$52 million in year one (2.5% annual increase) for the community mental health, substance use, and addictions sector
$550,000/year to sustain the HSJCC Network's coordination operations
A long and growing list of things Doug Ford should fund instead of his billion dollar convention centre vanity project #ONpoli 📋🗳️👇
Tory’s affair and misconduct is not even in my top 100 reasons why I judge him harshly. 🥹
Epic Fury’s frontman asked to leave Warped Tour after inappropriate behavior
It’s a better sample than the poll-as-public-relations story today. I like to imagine it was just his immediate family used as a sample size - and the result was still split. 😏
I want to see the internal private polling he had done before he came to this personal conclusion.
Instead we get him and his friend Steve using the media to erect a mythology of an incredibly mediocre man.
“Oh I don’t want to put my family through an election”…. subtly shifting blame to opponents…You already put them through hell my dude, without any outside help.
And it completely ignores the fact that all criticisms from progressive organizations have been about his record. It it is a far cry from his feigned humility when he left office.
Just as he decided to spin his own narrative then, downplaying expert submissions, coalitions, and dissenting voices, he is doing so now. He gets to create a high road that the only reason he isn’t running is because opponents would ‘drag his personal life’, which is so noble of him.
“The inclusion of nonprofit organizations in the lobbyist registry process was considered fully by staff when the registry was set in place, and Council made the proper decision to exempt nonprofit organizations from these requirements.” www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...
Refocusing that his ‘intention’ was about unions was politically convenient and ignored the many nonprofits that submitted opposition to the motion. And ignored that the nonprofit question had already been discussed years prior and he had reintroduced the notion. www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...
His theatrics in city council stopped short of calling us hysterical and engaged in some pretty blatant gaslighting. Repeatedly claiming ‘no one had a problem with it before’ when concerns were raised as early as 2014 by nonprofit coalitions: canadacommons.ca/artifacts/32...
