Mike Cousineau
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Well here we go. It appears Welland Service Ontario operator was not offered a job at the Staples location. Didn't take long for Dougtatorship to walk that promise back.
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Attendance at open today.
I'm no longer doing this to shame the gov't. They obviously have no shame.
I'm doing it to wake the people up that might vote for these useless lazy twits in 2026.
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Who thinks Doug's cancellation of license plate registration came at the behest of Staples, so they won't have to train people to deal with it?
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Hey Doug anything happening on the housing front today? Like maybe the feds doing your job for you again?
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In other words Ford wants the Federal govt to be nothing but a checkbook for his own wasteful spending, while simultaneously asking them not to collect taxes from Ontarians.
#FordfailedOntario
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Don't all gov't services in Ontario have to be Francophone accessible by law? If they open a Service Ontario kiosk in St Catharines, I will ask for service en Francais.
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We are up to 4 developers who attended Doug's daughter's wedding. He was specifically asked if ANY developers attended and he said no. To a journalist. Live on camera.
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Just a reminder Mr. Lilley that a big portion of that tax hike is due to your boss downloading developer fees onto the municipal tax base of every city in Ontario.
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Who wants to bet that when Ford gets turfed in 2026; we will find out they have a 2-year backlog in vehicle registrations updates?
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Here is a photo of the gov't side of the house today.
These people are not even making the slightest effort to show democratic process.
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@ColinDMello
Holy crap. I just figured out why they are doing this. Only HOME builders are exempt from paying development fees to cities. Businesses are not.
This move will allow for-profit LTC to be built with no infrastructure contribution.
Once again taxpayers subsidize private business?
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Ford faces a byelection in Kitchener Nov 30. They struggled just to find a candidate. IIRC PC have lost every one so far and he needs a win at this point. Let's keep the pressure up and deny him that win!
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@LisaCypher
@OccupyDemocrats
No only that, several presidents have been forced to answer for their actions, showing there is a limit to immunity.
Johnson in 1865, Nixon in 1974, Reagan 1986 (sort of),
Clinton in 1998 for example.
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Ford gov't makes tech courses mandatory then realizes it does not have the staff to teach them.
If a "teacher" is not qualified to teach the course; then how will they know and grade if students are doing the tasks correctly?
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#FordFailedOntario
Sorry to disagree. If Olivia Chow wins on Monday, it will be Doug Ford's fault. He poisoned the well for the Conservative candidates and anyone remotely connected to his reign of error.
And he needs to see the writing on the wall.
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Read Mobster of Education Lecce's previous comments on schools taking day off today.
Then look at the photo of Ontario Legislature, which shows him as absent today. 🙄
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Dougatorship "asking for permission" to come on your land to see if it's suitable for expropriation for highway.
Can you say no? If not, then it's NOT asking.
Can I simply send a letter to Doug and then come onto his cottage property?
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#FordfailedOntario
Here is what's left of our happy wanderers this am.
Why don't they turn the legislature into a homeless shelter. Gov't is not using it anyway.
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I have already made my New Year resolution for 2024.
Moving forward, I will only criticize the Dougtatorship for 3 things:
1) Everything they say.
2) Everything they do.
3) Everything they say they do.
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@CBCQueensPark
Wait-don't tell me. Somehow this will end up with Shoppers Drug Mart and Loblaws chain leading the pack.
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#FordfailedOntario
Sooo...
Having worked 4 days since June 8, the legislature is closed today? And they are off next week too.
Ford made it clear he would NOT declare the Truth and Reconciliation Day a provincial holiday. (Which was Saturday in any case.)
So what gives Doug?
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#FordFailedOntario
I eagerly await Doug's Twitter feed on Tuesday am, to see if he will be in his seat at the Legislature, to answer for his behaviour.
Or will this be the start of another sightseeing tour of Northern Ontario?
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Minister of Finance pushing all the panic buttons due to serious miscalculations on budget. What was his boss doing to help just before? Attending a Canadian Tire, Costco and dental clinic opening. (Sorry I am in full rant mode today.)
#FordfailedOntario
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This is Ford in the 2022 election campaign gaslighting people that the construction crews behind him were already "shovels in the ground" for HWY 413.
He lied then and is lying about being ready now.
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@fordnation
Roads are a provincial responsibility. You've cut the gas tax and vehicle registration. Plus wasted $500 million plus on a parking lot.
This is on you Doug. Not the federal gov't. 1/2
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@Sflecce
If "nothing matters more than students staying in classrooms", then why are you quibbling about money?
And you are not "negotiating" if you offer the same terms at every discussion. It's actually line in the sand.
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33 years after his presidency, there are still people who dislike Jimmy Carter.
Carter spent much of his post White House years building homes for the poor.
Trump has spent his whining like a 4 year old.
#TrumpIsNotWell
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I'm back thanks to the overwhelming response yesterday! 🫡 Looks like the gov't still not getting the message. Should I keep doing this? Here's open today:
#FordfailedOntario
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#FordfailedOntario
So a LTC resident gets sick and goes to hospital. Later gets sent 300 km away to another LTC.
Aside from the fact they are leaving their friends, what if they need hospitalization again?
Will there be a hosp. bed there and a new family doctor?
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@CharliePinkerto
You might add that they shut down the legislature hours later for 9 weeks to duck any criticism.
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Ford gov't to let unqualified people "teach" tech courses, due to their own failure to plan ahead.
While they are trying to come up with a way to blame Trudeau for this. perhaps a little reminder:
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@CamGuthrie
It was the comment that equated building affordable housing was something bad; that would make Ontario into "Communist Russia" that got me.
In one statement Ford insulted the buyer, the builder, 3 levels of government and his own Affordable Housing Act...
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#1
reason Kitchener Centre voters should not vote for this out of towner? He says he went to school in Kitchener. Nope. WLU is in Waterloo and he isn't savvy enough to make the distinction.
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Not sure why Dougtatorship even offers a budget. For example, they have been wrong on deficit on every one and every update since 2018.
Begging Feds for $ is their real budget and their real Infrastructure Bank.
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I feel like a 2nd grade teacher, taking attendance every day like this. But here is our so-called government at open today:
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@ColinDMello
Yep. That Red Tape reduction is working out just fine.
The only thing keeping them from building one on the runway is that it's federal property.
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Dougtatorship complains that federal oversight will delay start of construction HWY 413. Oddly enough, here is a photo of Ford in May 2022 telling people the construction is already under way!
Did the same stunt with Garden City Skyway a week later.
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@fordnation
Politicians absolutely should not be shilling for any business. It is corrupt and unfair to the competitors.
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@HeatherMoAndCo
We need to see if any government employees and/or government email addresses or stationary were used to send these invitations.
That would make this completely illegal. So would using Doug's title as premier in any of them.
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Dougtatorship has $18 million to fund car theft investigations, but $0 to coroners who investigate wrongful death. Odd priority. Maybe they can find where our missing ambulances are then?
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1/2 This whole Infrastructure Bank should be worrisome.
"Arm's length" means no oversight.
Investment by pension funds. For what? The projects listed have no viable revenue stream so no payback.
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SCOC has had nearly a year to mull over the case files for mandate letter ruling.
Final arguments were heard a week ago.
Why have the taxpayers not seen their decision yet?
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@fordnation
@THP_hospital
@SylviaJonesMPP
A hospital is just a building if there are no employees. You can't staff the facilities you have now. Where are the extra people coming from?
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@fordnation
I'm 68 years old, so I qualify. I'm struggling to think of a single thing that Doug Ford has done in five years to improve the lives of people my age. (Or any age for that matter.)
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@CBCQueensPark
Not sure if it's a crime to lie to Integrity Commission.
But it should be or the office is useless.
So much for Doug being "1000% cleared" as well.
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Dougtatorship holds a press conference to stress importance of Skyway twinning, while admitting they pi$$ed away an entire year in the RFP process.
Oddly enough, here is an election photo op of Doug in May 2022, lying that the project was already started!
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@RichardCityNews
Tougher? It's kindergarten for God's sake, Steve. It's not even mandatory right now.
Besides we know Lecce really want to set this up for them:
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@ColinDMello
Dougtatorship replaces the A-G on the same day their critical report is released. By sheer coincidence shuts down the Legislature until February.
Nothing remotely sketchy about that.
Oh-wait...
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@SylviaJonesMPP
Red Cross is doing your job for you now, so you can just kick 'er back and enjoy. 😡
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@RichardCityNews
I checked. They pulled the same stunt last December and fled for the hills on Dec 8.
Plus this fall 2023 session started a week later than the standing rules mandated in September.
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@TheTorontoSun
The Ontario gov't started doing 3rd shots in Aug of 2021 and they still aren't done. There is no hope they can do everyone every 90 days forever.
And if it's ineffective after 90 days, can we please stop calling it a vaccine?
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@ColinDMello
Dictator wants to round up his political rivals and "concentrate" them somehow.
This seems soooo... familiar.
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@SylviaJonesMPP
@fordnation
@Ornge
Y'know if hospitals actually worked properly, you wouldn't have to fly patients all over the province.
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@globeandmail
So much for the idea that the Greenbelt lands would only be used to build urgently needed affordable housing.
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Here's the house at open Oct 19.
Ford/Jones missing again.
Dougtatorship does not give a damn about democracy, integrity and the day-to-day lives of average Ontarians.
Vote them out in 2026!
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Just a reminder that whether Doug shows up or not tomorrow we are not seeing much in the way of effort from this gov't.
From April 14/2022 to Feb 21/2023 the legislature has sat for a total of 43 days.
This is not democracy.
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@JygaBite
I focus on the front row, the power cabinet members. If Ford is not there, the Deputy Fuhrer Jones should be. That's the point of her job. Otherwise why have one, as the title has no other official standing.
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@fordnation
@VictorFedeli
@LisaThompsonPC
The same agricultural sector you are expropriating to pave over with a useless highway?
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I noticed something strange on the Ontario Legislature live feed. Why are they not opening up until 3pm on the first day back instead of 9 am? Some big announcement in the am?
Please let it be Doug's resignation!
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@Sflecce
@SylviaJonesMPP
@fordnation
No one is defending the status quo. Oddly enough, things started to fall apart in 2018. We need you to at least retro-improve things you broke to that year's standards, maybe?
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@fordnation
You demonstrably have no respect for Asian cultures, when you appointed the whitest man in Ontario (aka your nephew) the minister for multiculturalism.
Instead of wasting money on a field trip so Mikey can find India on a map; why not appoint someone from there to the post?
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@fordnation
When Ford uses the word "workers" I shudder. Because he is not referring to them as citizens, or even as actual living human beings. No-they are merely another resource to be cultivated, then exploited by his rich pals. Like livestock...
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@fordnation
@francoislegault
You could have posted a touching verbal comment about the death of a legend.
Nope-let's add a selfie to make it about you for pre-election publicity.
I'm sickened by this tweet, which shows there is no low to which you won't sink.
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@fordnation
@TheThanigasalam
@Metrolinx
You posted this already on Oct 21 on your own Twitter feed. Same people. Same outfits. This was not today.
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Brian Lilley complains Crombie may abandon so-called Liberal values.
Laughable when you consider his own boss has abandoned his Party's traditional values, such that it's unrecognizable.
Ford himself has demonstrated that he has no values at all.
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@TDotResident
Might just be he just doesn't know how to speak without a teleprompter. Last week he said he was in the state of Etobicoke.
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@PrabSarkaria
"ban tolls on provincial highways"
Cities already cannot put tolls on provincial highways and by your own statement this would have no authority over regional or municipal roads.
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@PrabSarkaria
Which cities would that be? You can't make a statement like that without backing it up.
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@fordnation
A great woman who would be heart broken to see the shambles you and your cohorts have left this province in.
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@balkissoon
NDAs are usually for civil suits. The people are paying for this and have a right to know.
Nothing says hanky-panky like telling everyone to keep quiet abut it.
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@CityNewsTO
If he would lie to his wife he would lie to anyone.
That and the fact that he threw in the towel at the first sign of trouble means Tory is unsuitable for the task to which he was entrusted.
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Ford: We are doing all this graft to build affordable housing. But Feds need to do more.
Feds: We will help because you are 50% below target.
Ford: Stay in your lane this isn't Communist Russia.
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@fordnation
One of the causes of high interest rates is deficit spending by governments like your. You spend borrowed money like a drunken sailor, yet provide little in terms of wages for health care.
(With due apologies to drunken sailors, BTW. 😀)
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Lots of debate on carbon tax for natural gas. Know what's really driving prices? Service charges. In the 10 weeks we waited for our empty house to close, we used zero gas. Got a bill for $60 anyway. Also got $64 water bill for using $1.45 worth of water. 🙄
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@ColinDMello
Who in their right mind would invest in private generation to get on board with this now; knowing contacts are still subject to cancellation by Mr. 180 at any time?
No way any lending institution would offer a loan under these circumstances.
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@fordnation
@oscaschools
Come on Doug. I triple dog dare you to show the world a single photo of you as a spectator or participant in a cricket game prior to this week.
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@RichardCityNews
@ToddJMcCarthy
11 locations. $900,000 "saved" over 3 years total with no data to back it up. So $27k per year per location. That's not even a single salary at minimum wage. And it's not from logistics, because contractors paid their own rents and overheads.
More OPC BS....
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Is it piling on to point out that of the five you see:
Fideli is texting on his phone. Two are gossiping to each other, one is clapping to a heckler from the cheap seats, while an opposition member has the floor for a question.
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@AdriaScarano
@StaplesCanada
Yeah wait until someone who has been there three days gets a request like this:
I want to transfer this ownership that I never registered to my name, to my grand daughter and pay for it with a 3rd party cheque drawn from the bank of Azerbaijan.
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Cheque kiting. Lost deposits. Loan defaults. Unfinished homes. Uncollected dev fees.
This is what happens when you remove oversight and red tape.
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@Freire1Pb
Dougtatorship has defeated or stonewalled pretty well every initiative proposed by NDP.
NDP/LIB play no role in active governance, so any policies they may embrace are moot.
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@long_daze
Not just the most expensive, the most useless. Ontario would have been better served with a cabinet from IKEA.
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@Sflecce
@MichaelFordTO
This was already approved a year and a half ago.
The fire itself happened 4 years ago-an entire high school career. Gonna blame the Feds for the holdup on "getting it done" on this one too?
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#FordfailedOntario
Dougtatorship Reichsminister of Propaganda Brian Lilley criticizes FAO for jumping the gun on health spending before budget release.
The Ford gov't has underspent their own health budget 3 years in a row. And they all know it.
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@FrameToFrameBJ
@hotelbaudin
@citizen2021
@fordnation
@KingaSurmaMPP
@ONPlace4All
@SaveOSC
Part of the reason they built this fence so sturdily is they are fencing off lands that are not gov't property.
Not the provincial gov't at least. It's City of Toronto property. Ford is simply seizing the land without authorization or permission.
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Lilley refers to provincial EV rebates in this article.
Oddly enough, Doug Ford cancelled the Ontario rebate in 2018.
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@fordnation
@OlafScholz
@VictorFedeli
For God's sake man!
We understand your name is Ford, but please stop focusing on auto production and do something positive about sinking morale in education and health in Ontario.
You know-your actual job....
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I'm now wondering if something happened between DoFo and Parm Gill to trigger his resignation? It's been 2 days and Doug has nary a mention of it.
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@ONPlace4All
@maritstiles
@KingaSurmaMPP
"no one goes to Ontario Place"
That is not an an excuse. If someone steals a car that no one is driving right now, it is still a crime.
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