With an election coming up, its time to list Doug Ford's corruption and failures.
This will go one at a time, with updates to the full list.
Starting with the highest monetary corruption scandal in Canadian history.
1) - The Greenbelt Scandal - Doug Ford rezoned farmland at the request of his wedding guest/donors, giving them a reported $8 billion windfall before a single house was built.
2) Sending out $200 checks before he announces an election despite running the biggest deficit in Ontario history.
3) Bill 124 - A bill to freeze nurses wages while giving his own cabinet raises. Taken to court, Ford wasted $4.3 billion of Ontario money losing in court followed by $6.7 billion in retroactive wages.
4) Using agency nurses instead of publicly funded nurses. Ford did this for two reasons, one to award contracts to corporate agencies and two, to try to attack the nurses union. This cost Ontario $1 billion. Confirmed by the auditor.
5) $225 million contract to build the Scarborough Subway Extension to a sanctioned Russian Oligarch.
6) Use of private phones instead of government phones and deleting emails, same crime that took down McGuinty.
7) Ontario Place Spa - Ford awarded a secret contract to a foreign company with no open bidding, a company with assets of about $1 million at the time and was failing builds in the UK. He promised to spend $650 million for a parking lot that will be flooded repeatedly. A secret 99 year lease, like the 407, which the public had to use the courts to release. He passed bills to avoid his own liability. The contract says Thermes only pays rent if they make a profit.
8) Doug Ford spent $230 million (even more then for cancelling Beer Store contracts) to cancel renewable energy contracts in 2018. In 2023 he announced new renewables contracts to fill the holes created by cancelling the previous renewable contracts. Hydro rates have gone up 38% under his leadership.
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This will go one at a time, with updates to the full list.
Starting with the highest monetary corruption scandal in Canadian history.
1) - The Greenbelt Scandal - Doug Ford rezoned farmland at the request of his wedding guest/donors, giving them a reported $8 billion windfall before a single house was built.
2) Sending out $200 checks before he announces an election despite running the biggest deficit in Ontario history.
3) Bill 124 - A bill to freeze nurses wages while giving his own cabinet raises. Taken to court, Ford wasted $4.3 billion of Ontario money losing in court followed by $6.7 billion in retroactive wages.
4) Using agency nurses instead of publicly funded nurses. Ford did this for two reasons, one to award contracts to corporate agencies and two, to try to attack the nurses union. This cost Ontario $1 billion. Confirmed by the auditor.
5) $225 million contract to build the Scarborough Subway Extension to a sanctioned Russian Oligarch.
6) Use of private phones instead of government phones and deleting emails, same crime that took down McGuinty.
7) Ontario Place Spa - Ford awarded a secret contract to a foreign company with no open bidding, a company with assets of about $1 million at the time and was failing builds in the UK. He promised to spend $650 million for a parking lot that will be flooded repeatedly. A secret 99 year lease, like the 407, which the public had to use the courts to release. He passed bills to avoid his own liability. The contract says Thermes only pays rent if they make a profit.
8) Doug Ford spent $230 million (even more then for cancelling Beer Store contracts) to cancel renewable energy contracts in 2018. In 2023 he announced new renewables contracts to fill the holes created by cancelling the previous renewable contracts. Hydro rates have gone up 38% under his leadership.
Doug Ford cancels controversial $8.28-billion Greenbelt land swap: ‘It was a mistake’
The premier is scrapping his controversial Greenbelt land swap in a desperate bid to salvage his sputtering Progressive Conservative government.
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