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After Monday’s byelection loss, Trudeau is right choice to lead Liberals into defeat
“He will absorb the negativity, the blame, the pain. Then he will then disappear with it. The next leader will not be condemned to defend Trudeau’s election failure.”
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A real moment. Singh, pledging the $1.8B needed for clean water in First Nations communities, is asked if he’s writing a “blank cheque” for all indigenous people. His response is as measure and firm as we have come to expect of Jagmeet.
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If Pierre Poilievre and Candice Bergen are having a tantrum, something good for Canadians probably just happened
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Canada — 38M pop — 34,000 COVID deaths
Florida — 21M pop — 66,000 COVID deaths
Texas — 29M pop — 81,000 COVID deaths
American “patriots” at work
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Singh used his power to force Trudeau to start a national dental plan — big win for many Canadians
Poilievre, who enjoys a generous dental plan paid by us, today voted to deny a dental plan for kids of families earning under $70,000
Pierre Poilievre — not in it for you!
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Air Canada executives decided to sell tickets to flights they couldn’t staff then dumped the resulting chaos on understaffed workers to take the stress and harassment. Execs then blamed the federal government for the mess they created. Nice people.
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Bell took $40M in public money, used it to up the dividend, sold the assets, fired the employees
Let’s Talk!
“After announcing the job cuts, Bell said it would push ahead with a more generous dividend payout to its shareholders.”
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Amazing that by the end of this year, every Canadian child under 12 in even a modest-income family will be able to visit the dentist for free, just as they can go to a physician or have surgery
We can do great things when we try
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CBC edited out the clip of police driving two cars into a line of people — that’s the story. Since when does journalism delete the story? CBC needs to explain.
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The people with f*ck Trudeau t-shirts and bumper stickers are disgusted with a tweet by Peterborough’s mayor
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Just a simple suggestion for Conservative MPs: if you don’t want to be accused of supporting an illegal occupation where Nazi flags are flown, don’t support illegal occupations where Nazi flags are flow
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John Carpay has been arrested and charged, Convoy 2.0 has been cancelled, Jordan Peterson has been sanctioned by his professional college and Pierre Poilievre is the most unpopular new Conservative leader ever
Things are looking up! Happy New Year!
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My guess is Ford, Smith and Moe are fighting the federal push to share comparable provincial health care data because it’d show their defunding has accelerated the crisis and their privatization schemes don’t fix it
I’d like to see the data
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Nanos poll: 70% of Canadians have a negative view of politicians who supports the convoy clan
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I’m disgusted the mayor of Ottawa would agree to surrender parts of Ottawa to continued far-right occupation
This whole situation is deeply disturbing
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Poilievre has “spent every minute of his time in office fighting against fair wages, good pensions and a better life for working people. He is not a worker, and he definitely doesn’t get what it means to be a member of the working class.”
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Getting punked by comics like the 22 Minutes guy are a chance for a politician to show they a have sharp wit and can laugh
Poilievre’s response was witless, plodding, and he threatened the guy’s job. Total boor.
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Danielle Smith is a field test of what a Pierre Poilievre govt would be like. Sorry it had to be you, Alberta.
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Reporting that Poilievre is building alliances with far-right extremists isn’t a smear, it’s just a statement of fact
We’re lucky to have reporters with the courage to do their jobs even while being intimidated — in the name of freedom — on behalf of someone seeking to be PM
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Pierre Poilievre’s collapsing support among young voters is quite the story
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The freedum™️ crowd has not protested the new Ontario law that coerces vulnerable patients into long term care facilities so I don’t think their concern is really about loss of freedom
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Should police investigate Ford’s Greenbelt carve-outs as a conspiracy to defraud the public?
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Globe editorial:
“There was no actual investigation into the matter, no fact-finding, no search for narratives other than the premier’s.
“In short, Mr. Ford said he didn’t do anything wrong, and the integrity commissioner said, ‘Okay.’”
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The Conservative Party is dead. Long love the Convoy Party!
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How do you fire a corrupt premier with a majority government?
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Bad start for Poilievre:
- polling shows a net negative leadership score
- MP quits
- calls press conference with no questions allowed
- flames out on a journalist.
There is a reason he is more unpopular that Scheer or O’Toole
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If the purpose is to get more regular surgeries done, why not ensure existing (public) surgical rooms have the staff to operate more hours?
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How come Poilievre never directs Conservative rage at the billionaires and corporations?
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They used to say wearing a mask is your choice. But a doctor choose to wear one on TVO and is now being personally belittled and mocked by right-wing opinionists.
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If cops will co-ordinate a lie in a murder trial even when they know there’s video disproving them, how far do they go when they know there’s nothing to disprove what they say?
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Ford spent $25M of public money on advertising that should have been paid by PC party, says auditor-general
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What a huge display of cowardice and weakness to argue that the way to diffuse violent protestors is to agree to their demand to remove the health policies that protect us
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I’m finding it difficult to not conclude the far-right and white supremacist organizers harassing Ottawa residents are enjoying a police treatment no other group in society would receive
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These guys could build a bomb in full public view and the cops would stop traffic to help them
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Pierre Poilievre today met with a leader of a terrorist group, four members of which are currently held without bail on charges of conspiring to commit politically-motivated murder
Poilievre won’t distance or explain
Journalists: please don’t be intimidated from doing your job
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No shocker: CBC investigation finds Doug Ford’s developer buddies own land he cut out from the Greenbelt
While attacking low-wage workers with notwithstanding, Ford PCs’ were boosting their buddies’ wealth by millions
But he’s in it “for the little guy”
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Poilievre wants to cut your pension but pay for his
Not in it for you!
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I think it’s wrong to run this headline without including that this assertion is made without evidence. When media does this reporters become complicit in the propagation of an empty assertion as if it was true.
Doug Ford says federal carbon tax will plunge Canada into recession
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Doug Ford accelerating a crisis by defunding health care during a pandemic then using the crisis as a reason to fund private hospitals is another example of him putting private interests far above public interests
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Hey look, Alberta lost 20,000 jobs last month and has lost its long-prized status as paying the highest wages in Canada
Oh, and their GDP is shrinking
Electing loons has a cost
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If Shoppers Drug Mart is draining $1.4M a week from OHIP, that’s $73M a year Weston is skimming from the taxes people pay toward healthcare
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The Conservative Party is polling at its lowest level of popularity since formation
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Flush with pandemic profits, Loblaws has invested in Maple, a private Toronto company putting fee-paying patients at the front of the line for a physician visit
And Loblaws’ lawyers seem to have found a loophole in the Canada Health Act to do it legally
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Did we ever get an ID on the two men pictured having dinner with the interim leader of the Conservative Party?
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Pierre Poilievre, the politician who says he supports workers but votes to smash unions
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Thanks to TAXES we have public education, health care, transit, ambulances, police, firefighters, roads, bridges, arenas, worker training and trades, labour inspectors, environment inspectors, food inspectors, colleges, universities, foreign aid, an army, navy and airforce....
Thanks to TAXES, Canadians are paying $20 more for a case of beer. Last year, Justin Trudeau brought in his beer tax, which will go up every year and further drive up prices. He’s failing to make life more affordable for Canadians.
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Loblaw reports $508M profit for Q2, an 31.3% increase from Q2 2022
How’s our standard of living doing?
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Stiles: how did you choose which lands to cut from the greenbelt?
Clark: no answer
Stiles: did de Gasperis and Rice get insider information from you?
Clark: no answer
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Ford’s changes lift property taxes off developers, dump them on home owners and renters, then tells Mississauga mayor to “stop whining” about it
When cornered, Ford’s sexism rings through
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When shop owners are afraid to open and people can’t work or walk down their own street without harassment, it’s occupation
Certainly isn’t freedom
Tamara Lich's lawyer, Lawrence Greenspon, has argued in court this morning that the Convoy was not an occupation
Outside of court, Greenspon said “It’s an insult to (Ukrainians) and anybody else who’s survived an occupation to be calling what happened in Ottawa an occupation”
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Doug Ford said the Science Centre is in disrepair and nobody goes there, but reports show attendance is up and the provincial govt has frozen its operating grant for 10 years
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Doug Ford is promising if you just vote for him again he’ll fix health care and the other things the things he broke
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A bunch of Conservative MPs encouraged these occupiers to dig in and hold out but when things got real were nowhere to be found
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If Trudeau had kept his word on electoral reform:
- BQ would have about 10 few seats
- Alberta and Saskatchewan would have Liberal MPs
- Toronto would have diverse representation rather being the Red Square
It’s not a divided country, it’s a broken electoral system.
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Just pathetic to watch O’Toole make excuses for the convoy of hate
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Going to ring this bell a little louder because it seems some don’t want to hear it:
Four convoy supporters were arrested at the Coutts border blockade and charged with conspiracy to murder. They were heavily armed and had Diagolon patches on their gear.
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It’s a lot easier for some people to believe this is is “trucker protest” than confront the reality it is a foreign-funded far-right plot using trucks
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How a Toronto police sergeant took home $400,000 in 2023 needs to be explained to the public
Um, who is this, and why are they the third-highest paid person working for the City of Toronto?
#TOpoli
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To get to COVID Zero we need to go through Conservative Zero
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Bonnie Crombie, the candidate of fake change
- wants to open the Greenbelt
- is financially backed by some of the same land speculators as Doug Ford
- is at a Raptors game with Mr X — who paid for the tickets?
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Liberals ended CERB months ago, replaced it with CRB and cut it to $1200/mo.
That’s $9.38/hour, based on four 32-hour weeks — well below minimum wage.
Any real journalist who reports employers spreading misinformation about CERB “spoiling” workers would include these facts.
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Poilievre announces the biggest, most-inflated shadow cabinet ever — at 51, quite a bit bigger than that actual cabinet — because he’s fighting inflation
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Workers know a pension plan contribution — especially one matched by your employer — is a benefit, not a tax. Only employers would call it a tax.
Once again, by calling pension contributions a tax, Poilievre reveals *he’s not in it for you*
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Just in case you’re confused, it’s not the job of journalism to just ask questions politicians like
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Trudeau giving money to conservative premiers with no strings attached is like a zookeeper giving knives to monkeys
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Mr. X’s contract: “in addition to a $6,000-per-month payment, Mr. X’s firm would be paid an additional $225,000 ‘Greenbelt fee’ if the land was removed from the Greenbelt, and another $775,000 should the lands get the necessary zoning to build houses”
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Poilievre didn’t do nothing about the far-right’s vile and violent attacks against women reporters, he encouraged them
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NDP is the only major party gaining voters since the 2019 election
NDP + 60,572
LPC - 585,611
CPC - 600,065
GPC - 802,090
BQ - 95,186
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Perfectly healthy 55 year olds who are protected by working from home are being given vaccines before those working everyday in warehouses, meat plants and other dangerous environments. It’s pandering to their political base, not public health.
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Weston is draining $1.4M/week from OHIP through useless “prescription checks”
Shoppers Drug Mart denies it has revenue targets, but internal emails show otherwise
And BTW, what are OHIP and Minister Sylvia Jones doing to stop this vampiric scheme?
More than a dozen current and former Shoppers Drug Mart associate owners and pharmacists tell CBC News the chain sets targets for medication reviews, and corporate management pressures owners to meet them. .
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MLS composite house price index shot up 86% under Harper, from 112.4 in 2005 to 208.2 in 2015
It then rose another 59% under Trudeau, hitting 330.3 in 2022
Harper’s housing record was a disaster, then it got worse, but this smug professional falsifier tells you otherwise
"I am the one that delivered housing costs that are half of what they are today back when I was minister. And we're going to have an even better result when I'm prime minister," Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says as he outlines his party's housing plan.
#cdnpoli
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But how can Ford leave Lecce in place? He’s the guy who created the crisis and obviously can’t be trusted to negotiate in good faith. Need a new minister.
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The most hated Canadian?
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Ford obviously has no respect for the Charter or our rights and freedoms
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In the past few months, Singh used his power to get dentalcare, pharmacare steps, housing investments, cuts to corporate welfare, rent relief and now low-income tax relief
Conservatives got nothing except more angry and divisive
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Since the charter was signed in 1982, Ontario’s premiers have been Bill Davis, Frank Miller, David Peterson, Bob Rae, Mike Harris, Earnie Eves, Dalton McGuinty, Kathleen Wynne and Doug Ford.
Nine premiers. But only Doug Ford has used notwithstanding. The problem is Doug Ford.
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If you don’t see the urgency of the Ontario election, consider that if re-elected, Doug Ford will help Pierre Poilievre try to become prime minister
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Andrea Horwath is running to beat PCs. There are 10 close races (within 5%) with PCs from 2018. And she is as few as 10 seats away from defeating Doug Ford. She just needs to flip those, he is out. Only Andrea has a path to defeating Doug Ford.
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A planned Ottawa rally is broadly being portrayed as an expression of Canada’s 225,000 truckers rather than of anti-vaxxers who speak for no one but themselves
Journalists should be accurate, and perhaps even investigate what 225,000 Canadian truckers actually think
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We need a public inquiry into the sources of far-right violence in Canada
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Billionaire Silvio De Gasperis wants a court to stop an Auditor-General investigation into how Doug Ford decided at least 28 De Gasperis properties of nearly 3,000 hectares became exempt from greenbelt development restrictions
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Conservatives are so obsessed with Justin Trudeau it’s like Canadians don’t exist
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The federal Conservative Party is getting worse with each leader and doesn’t even deserve to be official opposition
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Manitoba PCs in total disarray as Wab Kinew goes from strength to strength
Tuxedo has been PC for 40 years
PCs lose Winnipeg stronghold to NDP, CBC News Network edition ...
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QP Briefing majority owner Paul Rivett blocked staff reporter’s story on Ford’s daughter seeking $1000 from premier’s developer pals, leading to this week’s staff resignations, say sources
The story was then published by Global News’ Colin D’Mello
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In the 1980s some provinces were creating two-tier health care, allowing doctors to extra-bill for publicly insured medicine. The federal government threatened action against those provinces. It worked. Does today’s federal government have the courage to protect health care?
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“If Ontario just spent the average of what the other provinces have spent on health care per capita over the past five years, we’d be spending an additional $7.2 billion this year — more than enough to properly pay our beleaguered nurses”
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He’ll lower a flag, he’ll bend a knee. But he won’t stop fighting residential school survivors in court. And he won’t reform the RCMP.
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“Freedom convoy” participant Jerry Morin, who has been charged with conspiring to commit murder at a protest, today cried in court as he was given no bail
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If Horwath’s NDP had been elected, right now MPPs would be debating a new drug and dental plan for all, investments to end hallway medicine, fixing housing affordability.
Not protesting an attack of democracy.
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Bit rich for a guy who qualified for a lifetime pension at 31 years old to dismiss other people’s pensions as “taxes” that should be cut, is it not?
Not in it for you, indeed!
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Some people here are being way too harsh on Finance Minister Freeland
Maybe she’s cutting Disney Plus at all five of her houses, that’s a significant monthly saving
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Poilievre rants about unnamed WEF elites imposing their agenda on Canadians
But when corporate food chain CEOs were called before parliament to explain their price hikes, he was a no show
Have literally never heard the man challenge an actual CEO
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Daughter’s requests for land developers to give her $1000 as a wedding present wasn’t a conflict of interest for Doug Ford, says integrity commissioner
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Funny we’ve heard nothing from the so-called “Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms” about the Ford PCs crushing constitutional freedoms?
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Basically, the Convoy’s plan was to hold neighbourhoods hostage until the government relented to their demands, which is armed insurrection manual stuff
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54% of Ontarians believe provincial governments are deliberately sabotaging their health care to advance for-profit health companies’ interests
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I would love to see Poilievre answer why he today used his power to try to deny dental coverage for kids
What a fake that guy is
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