“We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity but in love with humanity.” ~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Ontario, Canada
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John Smithson retweeted
“But I’m gonna buy myself a luxury $30M jet with your taxpayer money, folks” - Doug Ford🤨
The Ford government has decided to freeze the wages of early childhood educators next year, instead of giving them the expected $1 an hour increase.
@botelhok has the full story.
chch.com/chch-news/local-ear…
John Smithson retweeted
Unbelievable.
I have seen a lot in the last eight years from the @fordnation government.
This is a new low.
Ontario refused cancer patient's U.S. treatment and never told her its own health agency recommended funding it, FOI reveals thetrillium.ca:443/news/heal…
John Smithson retweeted
Seriously @fordnation?
Childcare workers are already underpaid and overworked. Now you’re capping their pay?
This is misogyny in action.
You will make finding childcare even harder and will drive more women out of the workforce.
It’s time for a woman to take your job.
John Smithson retweeted
Nothing but spin from the Ford Conservatives.
Academy of Learning received $219 million in OSAP funding in 2024-25, despite repeated warnings of potential fraud.
We now know thousands of OSAP applications were submitted from a single IP address the following year.
Today, I asked how much more taxpayer money went to Academy of Learning in 2025-26.
The Minister wouldn’t answer.
Enough spin. We need answers. #onpoli
John Smithson retweeted
where is the OSAP money, @nolanmquinn ???
Three years of warnings. Hundreds of complaints. Nearly a billion dollars in OSAP grants to private career colleges.
And Minister Nolan Quinn still can’t explain why his government failed to act sooner.
Yesterday, in Question Period, I demanded answers.
Students are paying the price for this government’s failures, and I’m not letting them off the hook. #onpoli
John Smithson retweeted
I don’t trust them. Period. Release the whole thing, not cherry-picked data that suits their false narrative. #onpoli
NEW: The Ford government now says it is willing to "consider" releasing portions of the KPMG audit into the private career colleges sector, under select conditions.
"If there are opportunities to release information from the KPMG audit that do not compromise a potential OPP investigation, an Auditor General investigation or the ministry's efforts to obtain evidence, recover funds and hold bad actors accountable, we will consider doing so."
Here's the minister's original comments:
#onpoli
John Smithson retweeted
This is so undemocratic @fordnation !
Ontario won't make career college OSAP audit public, minister says cp24.com/politics/queens-par…
John Smithson retweeted
NDP Leader Marit Stiles says Ontarians paid for the KPMG report and deserve to know what it found about private career college student aid.
John Smithson retweeted
We are talking about $385 million lost to potential fraud under the watch of the Ford government. The people of Ontario deserve answers.
MPP Tyler Watt and I called on the Auditor General to investigate the oversight of OSAP spending at seven private career colleges. The Ford Conservatives voted it down.
The Auditor General needs to get involved now. #onpoli
John Smithson retweeted
Any self-respecting Premier would simply resign over this one scandal.
Doug Ford has about 15 scandals as bad or worse than this.
It’s a level of corruption never seen before in Canada. I’m
cc @MaritStiles @JohnFraserOS @MikeSchreiner
Thousands of OSAP applications came from a single IP address, the Ford government now alleges.
Another great story from @allisonjones_cp
globalnews.ca/news/12129789/…
#onpoli
John Smithson retweeted
$17B for just interest on debt alone. Historic high deficit. Doug Ford is bad at managing your money, and it’s costing you.
Days after the fall economic statement, Premier Doug Ford is defending his government's repeated deficits.
Ford blames the pandemic and Trump for the consistent delay in balancing the budget, as the government first promised in 2018.
#onpoli
John Smithson retweeted
Doug Ford just increased the deficit while cutting your services.
The only Ontarian’s benefiting from his government are his wealthy donors.
Ford is a Republican. Too bad we can’t vote him out next week
John Smithson retweeted
I’m an ER doc. To say “We’re protecting Ontario” is disgraceful. @RaymondChoPC
John Smithson retweeted
They spend more, we get less.
The Ontario PC way.
John Smithson retweeted
Never has a government spent so much and gotten so little for the people of Ontario.
Today Doug Ford released his fall economic statement, and families struggling with grocery bills and rent got no real help, just more tired announcements.
It’s time for real solutions that put money back in your pocket, end the health care wait times, and build the homes that people can afford.
John Smithson retweeted
The misery in those hallways - the despair, the suffering, the blatant disregard for the sanctity of the person - I cannot forgive. He has promised us not once but four times that he was laser focused on solving the problem and he has achieved nothing. Disgraceful
NEW: We obtained internal government data showing Ontario’s hallway health care numbers hit unprecedented highs in the last two years, with over 2,000 patients treated in hallways on an average day last winter 🧵 thetrillium.ca/news/health/o…
John Smithson retweeted
The @OntarioPCCaucus reads from scripted notes written for them that have absolutely nothing to do with what’s being asked of them in Question Period.
It’s time for @SpeakerSkelly to address this issue.
As a taxpayer, I want answers to the questions my elected reps are asked.
John Smithson retweeted
Doug promised to end hallway health care numerous times since he became Premier in 2018. But we now know hallway health care in Ontario under Ford’s watch is the worse it’s ever been.
John Smithson retweeted
Hallways. Storage closets. Hours waiting for a bed.
This is Ontario’s healthcare reality under Doug Ford, and it’s just not sustainable.
#onpoli
