Doug Ford - most corrupt Ontario PM in history - the list

[dirkd101]

Me too.

He's the best Premiere this province has had since Bill Davis. And as crazy as this sound, Bob Ray.

Agreed, up until you mentioned Rae...

 

[dirkd101]

Doug Ford always had a mandate to invest in Ontario, he just didn’t do his job
Jan. 19, 2025


By Ricardo Tranjan, Contributor

In response to Donald Trump’s threat to impose high tariffs on Canadian products, Premier Doug Ford said he might have to call an early election to secure a mandate to protect Ontario’s economy.


That’s a bad excuse to call an early election. It’s like firefighters saying they must ring the doorbell and ask permission to put out a fire and save the people trapped inside the house.

The current government already has a mandate to invest in Ontario’s economy and people. Given the province’s stable finances, it also had the means to do so. It simply chooses to stash money away and spend it on vain populist measures.

Take the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic, for example.

Ottawa picked up the tab for 92 per cent of emergency measures, giving provinces the fiscal room to invest in public services people needed more than ever. Instead, at the start of 2021, amid high death counts and economic turmoil, Ontario was sitting on $6.4 billion of unspent COVID emergency funds. The job was obvious. The money was there. But Ford chose not to spend it on Ontarians.

Fast forward to today, and we will see the same pattern.

The provincial government’s revenue is anticipated to rise from $205.7 billion in 2024 to $217.4 billion in 2025 — a solid 5.7 per cent increase. Spending is set to rise by 2.6 per cent, or less than half the revenue increase.

Does the current government have the mandate to expand child care provision, tackle the colossal school repair backlog, reduce emergency room waiting times and assist the more than 100,000 Torontonians relying on food banks and 80,000 Ontarians experiencing homelessness? It does.

Yet, that’s not the focus. Year in and year out, the Ontario government’s attention and dollars have been poured into populist and nonsense measures nobody asked for.

It’s a long list. Let’s look only at the three most recent ones.

Last May, the Ontario government announced it would spend $225 million to breach a contract with The Beer Store and speed up the expansion of alcohol sales in the province. The measure is expected to result in higher alcohol consumption and lower sales tax revenues.

Last September, Premier Ford vowed to build a traffic tunnel under Highway 401, even though Highway 407 is highly underutilized. The project is already consuming tonnes of planning hours and political attention that could have been invested in things Ontarians actually need.

Last October, the Ford government announced it would send a $200 cheque to every Ontarian, rich and poor, for a total cost of $3.2 billion. Targeting the cash transfers to low-income families and investing the rest in universal public services would have been easy, but less popular.

If the house is on fire, people expect firefighters and majority governments to go in and deal with it. They don’t need to ask for a mandate to do what they are supposed to do.

Where's your political sense?

Every government, no matter who is in power, requires time in order to get things done. Their mandate is limp, like an old man's dick, in the last third of their tenure in office. Like your beloved libs, when they were floundering in office under Wynne, she increased funding in some areas, knowing it would be rolled back under Dougie. That is shit politics and anybody with even a pea sized brain can see that.

So yeah, Dougie needs a new mandate and I see that we need someone like him to tackle the issues that Trump is going to bring to Canada and more specifically Ontario.

 

[dirkd101]

Gonna disagree with you there.

Apologizing does nothing to remove the fact that he attempted it and knew full well what he was doing.

Attempted murder is still a crime even if it never occurred.

Just being a little glib, shack.

But I still like Dougie!

 

[Anbarandy]

Where's your political sense?

Every government, no matter who is in power, requires time in order to get things done. Their mandate is limp, like an old man's dick, in the last third of their tenure in office. Like your beloved libs, when they were floundering in office under Wynne, she increased funding in some areas, knowing it would be rolled back under Dougie. That is shit politics and anybody with even a pea sized brain can see that.

So yeah, Dougie needs a new mandate and I see that we need someone like him to tackle the issues that Trump is going to bring to Canada and more specifically Ontario.

Where's your political and common sense?

6 years in, is not enough time to get things done?

2 majority govts is not a limp mandate especially considering there still is 18 months still remaining in that majority govt mandate which really splays out your and Doug's ludicrous fallacy that he and you require a new mandate pronto!

Bribing voters with $3.4billion while running a current fiscal year $7billion deficit all the while adding historic and obscene multi-billions to the taxpayer's debt load is NOT tackling the issues in Ontario nor gearing up for Trump tarriffs.

It is pure populist politics that Doug is playing with the welfare of Ontarians for his own personal gains.

 

[Skoob]

I don't like him, but that is hardly corruption. But using hyperbole is SOP for you.

I just think it's funny that when the Libs give you a rebate cheque due to the carbon tax people cheer and applaud but when Ford essentially does the same thing, it's suddenly corrupt? Lol!

Then the Libs copy that and give people $250 cheques and......................crickets...but Ford is corrupt? Lol!

The hypocrisy of the left never ceases to amaze me.

 

[shack]

Just being a little glib, shack.

But I still like Dougie!

Good to know.

But he clearly got caught red-handed in that case.

 

[shack]

It is pure populist politics that Doug is playing with the welfare of Ontarians for his own personal gains.

What. Do you think that he's supposed to help us?

 

[dirkd101]

Where's your political and common sense?

6 years in, is not enough time to get things done?

2 majority govts is not a limp mandate especially considering there still is 18 months still remaining in that majority govt mandate which really splays out your and Doug's ludicrous fallacy that he and you require a new mandate pronto!

Bribing voters with $3.4billion while running a current fiscal year $7billion deficit all the while adding historic and obscene multi-billions to the taxpayer's debt load is NOT tackling the issues in Ontario nor gearing up for Trump tarriffs.

It is pure populist politics that Doug is playing with the welfare of Ontarians for his own personal gains.

As stated @Anbarandy, he's in the final third of his mandate and politically, he's seeking a new mandate from the people and politics is all about the popularity that you generate. smh...

I guess you'd prefer Marit Stiles, with Kristyn Wong-Tam as her second in command, in power? And if old Olivia Chow can hold onto power in Toronto as mayor, then the lunatics would indeed be running the asylum.


Talk about populist politics with no sense of reality...