.
@fordnation
salary: $208k
@sflecce
salary: $165k
Why do they think THEIR work is 4-5X MORE valuable than that of education workers making $39k? Those who do the work to care for Ontario children & without them, that essential care DOES NOT HAPPEN.
#onpoli
#onted
#39kIsNotEnough
#BREAKING
: I've been removed from the House just now for calling
@fordnation
a liar AKA A SPADE A SPADE.
I guess some rules can't be broken in this place. But charter rules (i.e. HUMAN RIGHTS)? The gov't can trample over those nooo problem! SELECTIVITY AT ITS FINEST.
#onpoli
It is ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING that in the last days of school
@fordnation
@Sflecce
chose to BLAME teachers education workers and staff rather than CONGRATULATE them for their hard work during this pandemic nightmare!
#onted
#onpoli
Never forget this day Ontario.
Never forget these facts.
Doug Ford is a LIAR.
Doug Ford is an enemy of workers.
Doug Ford is happy destroying education in Ontario.
And WE won't STOP telling it like it is.
@fordnation
- you will NEVER silence us.
#onpoli
It's been brought to my attention that many Ontario NDP members and members of other communities are under the impression that there was a vote, consensus, or agreement between leadership & the Ontario NDP Caucus, of which I am a member, to remove MPP Sarah Jama from caucus...🧵
Loblaws ending the their wage increase for workers is shameful. The increase was only $2/hr extra - and they're raking in record profits right now.
They should be PERMANENTLY INCREASING the wages of their staff - not cutting them right now.
#onpoli
Doug Ford is saying that he's going to wait into May/June before he begins vaccinating essential workers.
Make no mistake, this decision will cost people their lives. That's not hyperbole - that's a FACT.
Essential workers need vaccines now.
#onpoli
What the heck is this announcement???
DOUG. YOU. ARE. NOT. ADDRESSING. THE. PROBLEM.
The transmissions are happening in WORKPLACES.
LISTEN TO DOCTORS NOT LOBBYISTS.
@onpoli
Dear
@samoosterhoff
, my constituency staff have put together a step-by-step guide on how to respond to peaceful protestors for your reference.
1. Do NOT call the police.
2. Speak with them (preferably over tea/coffee)
3. Seriously, do NOT call the police.
#onpoli
#cdnpoli
"I don't know why the NDP is so opposed to healthcare innovation"-
@SylviaJonesMPP
UM no. We're opposed to privatization. Privatization is NOT innovative. The opposite, in fact. It's been done and when it is, the results are a fatal disaster! THAT'S why.
#onpoli
#healthcarecrisis
Studies across the UK & US show that outsourcing health care to the private sector INCREASES patient mortality rates. Make no mistake:
@fordnation
doesn't care about our health, & thinking privatization will solve our crisis is a CRUEL JOKE meant to make the rich richer!
#ONPoli
Good morning Ontario
A reminder Premier
@fordnation
is on his TENTH PAID Sick Day today.
So, he gives Ontarians 3 while he is on his 10th.
Hmm...
#PaidSickDays
JUST NOW: a CONservative member smugly WAVED to distressed workers & allies sitting in the QP Gallery right after voting YES to their vicious anti-worker Bill.
Never forget this brazenness & audacity. Never forget who the
@fordnation
gov't works for & WHO THEY DON'T.
#onpoli
Minister
@LisaThompsonMPP
STOP saying "Mom and Dad" when refering to parent input for Health & Physical Education curriculum. Your very language excludes LGBT families and kids raised by single-parent families. You get an F from me!
#onpoli
#education
We must work together to ensure ALL Ontarians have access to accessible, equitable, and PUBLIC health care! Join me in signing this petition to STOP FORD'S PLAN TO PRIVATIZE:
#ONPoli
This is disgusting!
Pride flags should be flown at all ON schools esp *publicly* funded schools.
Explain to me how not flying the flag isn't propping up (condoning!) homophobia, transphobia, and biphobia AKA HATE against our 2SLGBTQIA+ community!? Shameful. 21st century people!
Thanks
@fordnation
for sharing w ON that u and Lecce spoke on phone till almost 1am on the wknd🤯
That shouldn't be one of your talking points this morning buddy
You make over 200K. Lecce makes over 165K. A 1am call is the LEAST Ontario is expecting of you both. Just saying...
As this government continues to deny you air conditioning, a maximum temperature for all buildings & your right to SAFETY in your own home, here’s a sneak peek into the halls of Queen’s Park.
All for me. None for thee. That’s the
@fordnation
agenda.
#ONPoli
#TOPoli
The release went on to conjure what I feel were stereotypical tropes often used to communicate about Black people, especially Black women, who are perceived as difficult. I expressed my concerns about this release to the leadership team and to my caucus members.
I want to make it clear that I also informed leadership on Monday, October 23, 2023 and my caucus colleagues on Tuesday October 24, 2023 that I would be making this statement. Thank you.
Premier
@fordnation
I suspect you don't use this mode of transportation often
This is what your UNDERFUNDING of public transit looks like
It makes us LATE.Late for doctor appts,late to pick up kids,late to funerals, late to that shift.
People deserve better
#keeptransitpublic
Newsflash for Doug Ford:
Every worker in Ontario needs paid sick days.
Every worker in Ontario needs paid sick leave.
Every. Single. One.
No one should be forced to go to work sick.
Before COVID, during COVID, and after COVID.
#onpoli
#PaidSickDays
#paidsickdaysNOW
It's also been brought to my attention that people have been specifically told by leadership in various conversations that I supported the decision to remove MPP Sarah Jama from the Ontario NDP Caucus. I did not support this decision for a variety of reasons.
Imagine the audacity of picking two people to review anti-Black racism in schools – and NEITHER OF THEM ARE BLACK?!
Do the right thing
@sflecce
and appoint a Black reviewer for
@PeelSchools
!
#onpoli
Here I am in question period witnessing Premier
@fordnation
trying to FORGET that Ottawa is in ONTARIO!
Stop hiding! Don't be a coward. Face the people of Ottawa. YOU are their Premier! Get to Ottawa and testify at Emergencies Act Commission Inquiry. You've been summoned. SERVE!
Prime Minister
@JustinTrudeau
, just a reminder: not all families are heterosexual. So in referencing
#MothersDay
to children during your
#COVID19
pressers please speak of parents instead of exclusive 'mom & dad' references that erase
#LGBTQ
families and moms.
#COVID19
Today we confirmed that Stephen Lecce has been lying to the people of Ontario about the safety of our schools.
He is not fit for office.
@Sflecce
, get out.
#onpoli
#onted
It is CLEAR Stephen Lecce is unfit to be Education Minister.
Instead of bringing us safe classrooms, what he's delivered has been confusion, fear, and pain.
He must go.
#FireLecce
#onpoli
#onted
Today I spoke out AGAINST Ford's healthcare privatization scheme. Shame on this govt for attacking publicly funded care while people sit desperately waiting for surgeries that could happen TODAY if Ford would invest in public care. Enough is enough.
#onpoli
#supportnurses
Doug Ford did not announce a paid sick days program today.
Everything else is just noise.
If he really cares about the people of this province, this government will pass paid sick days by the end of the day.
#onpoli
Answering
@ColinDMello
’s question about
#Bill124
,
@fordnation
says he “can’t be out there spending willy nilly.” Does Ford think nursing is a “WILLY NILLY” profession? 🤔 Ford must commit to DROPPING THE APPEAL! Privatized health care is NOT THE ANSWER!
#TOPoli
#ONPoli
Hear that? The lowest rate of women in the workforce in 30 YEARS due to exorbitant costs of childcare that costs families 20K+ a year.
@Sflecce
's 1500 credit is a drop in the bucket of what's needed.
@fordnation
NO more excuses. Get to the table. Sign the $10/day deal.
#onpoli
I am not allowed to say in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario that the government is LYING when they say that their
#Bill184
is helping tenants across Ontario. To say that
@fordnation
lies in the chamber is "unparliamentary." Well, I can say it here. THEY ARE LYING. PERIOD.
Is anyone else sick of hearing Doug Ford tell us about how his heart breaks for businesses, for kids, for healthcare workers - while simultaneously REFUSING to support them adequately?
#onpoli
"We don’t so much have a healthcare crisis as a Doug Ford crisis."
@fordnation
's sat in the driver's seat for 5 YEARS, steering Ontario healthcare into crisis. One that is FAR from inevitable, but by CHOICE. To make the rich richer & sick sicker.
#ONPoli
Any MPP who thinks it's okay to compare:
A woman's right to her own bodily autonomy and the Holocaust - cannot be allowed a place in government.
Let alone any influence over our EDUCATION system.
Doug Ford must fire Sam Oosterhoff, NOW.
#onpoli
When a govt in power mobilizes a bill that includes the phrase “despite the human rights code” & when they walk out the moment the opposition critic starts speaking truth to power, they’re answering the age old union question “WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON, BOYS?”
#ONPoli
#OntEd
"We will throw everything we have...we won't spare a penny"
@fordnation
on their "fight" against Omicron.
Yet not a single mention of PAID SICK DAYS, AFFORDABLE Childcare OR BAN on evictions.
You tell us "brace for impact?" Give us the tools!
#COVID19
#Omicron
I stopped by my CO office today with my partner after the Barns. This is what we found.
Whether it's this or the N-word postcard I got previously, it's NOT acceptable.
If someone's got a problem w me or my opinions email/ DM but this type of aggression & disrespect is cowardly.
BREAKING NEWS:
I asked Premier
@fordnation
why he allowed
@samoosterhoff
to speak at an anti-choice event. The house leader
@PaulCalandra
responded. He muffled both his answers so we could hardly hear him! Sam should not be sitting as PA for education! SHAME!
#onpoli
I learned about this decision on Monday, October 23, 2023 at 11:11AM via email while sitting in my MPP seat in the legislature, when the decision was already made. The subsequent press release stated with support of our Ontario NDP MPPs a decision was made to remove the member.
Epidemiologist
@FurnessColin
just eviscerated Stephen Lecce's misleading spin tactics on
@CP24
. Says Lecce's own numbers suggest we could have 15,000 undiagnosed COVID cases in schools.
"Comparing proportions is on the elementary school curriculum."
#onted
#onpoli
#covidontario
Make no mistake NO immigrant is entering Ontario asking to live on the Greenbelt🤨
Premier
@fordnation
do NOT use immigrants as your scapegoat!
No one is drinkin' ur Kool-aid
Your govt lies to the public and gifts sweetheart deals to your rich buddies.
#GreenbeltGrab
Tried. Tested. Failed.
Now, the ball's in your court,
@fordnation
. Are you going to learn this lesson now, or a much more expensive lesson later?
#ONPoli
In an attempt to distract from his corruption,
@fordnation
offered space for baseless, anti-trans HATE. Trans youth are now walking into school RIGHTLY scared for their safety.
With a new session underway, I'm demanding he make it clear. Will he
#ProtectTransKids
or NOT?
#ONPoli
Good morning.
This is what food insecurity looks like.
Police cannot arrest their way out of poverty and the affordability crisis.
Food is a basic need and darn well should be a human right.
Humans DIE without access to food.
.
@fordnation
, I highly doubt you take public transit often...Do you? And how often are you in health care settings OR speaking with ER nurses over run and other frontline health and essentially workers? WE NEED THE MASKS TO STAY ON. Please!
#onpoli
#immunocompromised
"I cried 4 times today...I couldn't stop".
The words of a young child who comes home EXHAUSTED by a classroom kept at 30-40°. These are the conditions
@sflecce
&
@fordnation
are sending students into.
I wrote them DEMANDING kids are kept safe with investment NOW!
#ONPoli
#OntEd
#BREAKING
: over the weekend, several Ontario CHILDREN had to be resuscitated in hospital from life-threatening breathing blockages.
@JoelHardenONDP
asks
@fordnation
to honor them & simply wear a mask indoors. He can’t even stand up in response, let alone
#MaskUp
. SHAME!
#onpoli
COVID is NOT over.
Neither is its impact for hundreds of thousands of Ontarians who are living with debilitating
#longCOVID
symptoms.
We must still work to prevent spread of COVID but ALSO, support those suffering from its aftermath with equitable, accessible support!
#ONPoli
Minister of Health
@celliottability
just said in question period with regards to
#COVID19
Vaccinations: "We are treating everyone across Ontario equally!" THAT'S the problem Christine. Try treating everyone EQUITABLY!
#onpoli
Ontario is now the ONLY province without an affordable child care deal.
Once again
@fordnation
racing to the bottom while parents in need of child care so they can get to work are left scrambling.
Sign on to the 10-dollar a day childcare agreement already Doug.
#onpoli
Today, I rose to demand that this gov't declare Intimate Partner Violence, Gender-Based Violence & Violence Against Women as an epidemic. I've called for this many times.
It's 2024, and we are still here waiting, and most importantly so are the survivors. We all deserve better!
VACCINATE ESSENTIAL WORKERS!
VACCINATE ESSENTIAL WORKERS!
VACCINATE ESSENTIAL WORKERS!
Premier
@fordnation
BRING THE VACCINE TO PEOPLE!
Essential workers, 'hot spots' are predominantly BIPOC, WOMEN. Do NOT turn your back on our most vulnerable people!
DO YOUR JOB DOUG!
#onpoli
Women have a right to share what we want about our health and our lives. Too often women are told to be seen and NOT heard. No one should be slamming
#ChrissyTeigen
for sharing about the loss of her baby. This is her choice. Sending you and your family deepest condolences
#women
THREAD: The fake sincerity of
@fordnation
is genuinely enraging. He wants to act like he 'cares' so much - but is going to force kids into classrooms of 30+ DURING A PANDEMIC.
#onpoli
#onted
You know what else helps expand the accessibility of health care services? PUBLIC FUNDING OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS! Don’t be fooled by the language of “community” - this is about PRIVATIZATION!
#ONLab
#ONPoli
#BREAKING
BREAKING NEWS:
@OntarioNDP
reveals
@fordnation
gov't is handing out more MZOs to benefit PC party donors and insiders. Six NEW MZOs have been signed behind closed doors, three of which benefit PC donor and insider Shakir Remtullah! LEAVE GREENSPACE ALONE!
#onpoli
#tostpauls
At this very moment, Sam Oosterhoff - the Parliamentary Assistant to the Min. of Ed is presenting to a group that compares a woman's right to bodily autonomy to the Holocaust.
Doug must fire Sam - NOW.
RT if you agree.
#onpoli
#FireOosterhoff
This myth that the Ford gov't is handling
#COVID19
well has to stop. Just off the top.
#onpoli
⛔️Long-Term Care. 1800+ residents died
⛔️No funding for renters-evictions back Aug 1
⛔️No real plan to open schools safely
⛔️Small businesses closing
⛔️Child care costs skyrocketing
So we've got children and families reportedly being criminalized for trying to shoot some hoops on a hot sunny day but anti-maskers, anti-vaxxer SELFISH people can gather without any issues?
@fordnation
@SylviaJonesMPP
where are YOU?! Did you sleep through this?!
#onpoli
I am incredibly happy to be a co-sponsor of this legislation.COVID IS AIRBORNE. It is high time the Ontario govt act to protect our people and our economy.Clean air must be a right and with a govt that has irresponsibly removed masking mandates we need this NOW.
#onpoli
#COVID19
Ford's Conservatives just voted against this easy solution to bring conflict of interest rules for MPPs to be inline with those of the Ontario Public Service and federal MPs.
We will keep fighting to bring integrity, transparency & accountability back to Queen's Park.
#onpoli
I asked Doug Ford TWICE to denounce Faith Goldy, a Toronto mayoral candidate with ties to Neo-Nazi, white supremacist hate groups after photos & videos surfaced of them smiling for the cameras. He REFUSED to answer.Instead he decides to brag about
#FordFest
.
#onpoli
#topoli
Hello
@Revera_Inc
. My cousin, one of your hardworking PSWs is now at home sick w
#COVID19
She's worked for you for decades. She told you one of her clients had covid symptoms. She asked you to test the client. You ignored it. Now she's home sick w/o pay.
BREAKING: Ford gov't votes AGAINST Ontario NDP Opposition Day motion demanding Doubling OW/ODSP Rates.
It is a devastating day when a Ford govt MPP holds up a cell phone during a debate on legislated poverty rates to suggest that impoverished Ontarians should just use a phone!
.
@fordnation
needs to REPEAL Bill 28!
Stop standing in the way of of education workers' bargaining rights, human rights, constitutional rights! Workers conditions ARE students conditions!
#39kIsNotEnough
#onted
SOLIDARITY with these Indigenous nations and SHAME on
@fordnation
. These folks traveled THOUSANDS of kms only to be denied a meeting. Is this what Conservative "leadership" looks like in action?
Neskantaga chief-elect Chris Moonias and current chief Wayne Moonias disrupted Question Period after Indigenous Affairs Minister was asked about their opposition to the Ring OF Fire
#onpoli
You may disagree with my politics but when you stoop to the level of calling me a F*cking C*nt THAT is unacceptable.
We need more women in politics. And one classless man won't stop us. It sure as hell won't stop me!
#WomeninPolitics
#BlackWhileCanvassing
This is a NEW LOW even for
@fordnation
.
To ask for donations as an INVOICE?! Thinking of all the seniors, people living w disabilities or anyone on a fixed income who received this, thinking it was something they OWED and paid up.
#onpoli
#VoteFordOut2022
Ontario’s largest public sector union and the NDP education critic are calling on Lisa MacLeod to resign, saying her behaviour toward an autism group was akin to bullying and inappropriate for a cabinet minister.
Smith vs. Rock
This is what toxic masculinity looks like. It is the consequence of normalizing violence and then celebrating it...standing by it like a passive bystander and validating it.
I respect both actors AND I've got alopecia (CCCA). Jokes hurt but this?! No.
#Oscars
BREAKING: Fords Minister of WOMEN'S social, economic opportunities
@BramCentrePC
has JUST stood up w pride and spoken in support of Bill 28 oppressing educ workers, students AND parents! Women make up 70% of educ workers! Many are BIPOC! SHAME!
#ontedsolidarity
#39kIsNotEnough
BREAKING:
@fordnation
government has just voted NO to
@OntarioNDP
bills demanding EVICTION BAN during
#COVID19
and one demanding an EQUITY STRATEGY to ensure BIPOC and other marginalized communities disproportionately impacted by the pandemic get support! DIGUSTING GOVT!
#onpoli
This afternoon just as we were about to debate our ONDP Official Opposition Day Motion calling for AFFORDABLE Housing for ALL the
@fordnation
govt killed it.
This is the govt that claims to be for the people.
Their housing 'plan' Bill 23 is for developers. Period.
Ford is making moves on his demolition plans of Ontario Place this wknd. Meanwhile, the PCs are keeping Ontarians in the dark of HOW MUCH privatizing public, heritage land is costing them.
They can dance around the question all they want. I'll keep demanding answers.
#ONPoli
Yesterday -
@fordnation
TRIED to claim that Canada doesn't have 'deep roots' of systemic racism.
Systemic Anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism is REAL in Ontario, Doug. Try LISTENING for once.
My Members statement is below. ⬇️⬇️
#BlackLivesMatter
#JusticeForRegis
#onpoli
.
@fordnation
you might want to review the Education Act.
Principals have a duty to report.
You may want to bury the truth but you cannot.
#onted
#COVID19
Doug Ford's buddies are at it again.
This time Walmart and Loblaws are only giving out rapid tests to folks who buy something from them.
Pro-Tip for
@fordnation
👇🏾
It isn't free if you have to pay for it.
#onpoli
#FreeTheRATs
.PC
@SylviaJonesMPP
says "since the beginning of pandemic there'ds nothing Ford hasn't done to protect children and the most vulnerable."
THIS. IS. A. LIE!
Repeal Bill 124!
MANDATE MASKS!
PROVIDE PAID SICK DAYS and THEN you can talk!
Shame on Ford govt for abandoning Ontario
Just GUILTY of assault - NOT any of the other charges??
Dafonte Miller was ATTACKED WITH A PIPE AND LOST HIS EYE.
Don't EVER try and tell me this system isn't broken.
We must DISMANTLE the archaic, broken, racist "justice" system.
#herefordafonte
#onpoli
#BlackLivesMatter
toronto police officer Michael Theriault has been found GUILTY, and his brother Christian found NOT GUILTY, of assault in the december 2016 attack on Dafonte Miller;
both Michael and Christian Theriault found NOT GUILTY of obstruction of justice
#HereForDafonte
Fords obsession with beer.
His disrespect towards LCBO workers.
His wasteful 'priorities' to the tune of HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of dollars all while education and Healthcare are being callously cut. Mental health supports? NO!
Affordable housing? NO!
Ontario deserves a new Premier!
ERs are closing, millions of Ontarians are without a doctor, shelters are at capacity, yet the gov’t is choosing to spend a quarter of a billion to fast-track beer sales.
This is Ford’s priority…
#ONpoli
Can you imagine how much better Ontario would be doing if we'd had a leader who would've listened to the experts from the start of COVID-19?
#onpoli
@AndreaHorwath
👀
Building a strong Ontario or building a strong Austria?
@fordnation
showed his hand in his plan for Ontario Place that would send $500 MILLION in taxdollars overseas & turn our public lands PRIVATE.
Tell Ford to keep Ontario Place a place for ALL:
#ONPoli
.
@fordnation
you told people they could "walk in" for
#COVID19
Boosters beginning today. Theresa from Rexall asks that you tell the full story: Waitlists are higher than 1200 in some pharmacies and walk ins simply aren't possible for most.
Ontario had over 1000 cases of
#COVID19
for the first time yesterday.
But Sam Oosterhoff thought it was the time to gather indoors, with 30+ people w/out masks.
@samoosterhoff
- don't pretend you didn't know why this was wrong.
Admit you didn't care.
#onpoli
@TorontoPolice
Thanks for posting. However, can you unpack 'arbitrary' b/c carding and racial profiling have never been banned by
@fordnation
or the previous Liberal govt at that. Racial profiling and carding is still legal in Ontario. How can one 'know their rights' within this context?