Reay17h ago

Parliament is back in session, day 2 after a 102-day break.

Doug Ford is downplaying the OSAP protest gearing up for today at Queen’s Park as being ‘some unhappy students’ but will also be union members who are ‘unfortunately getting paid by taxpayers to take a day off’.

Which isn’t the case anyway, since union members pay their own dues and don’t get paid by taxpayers. If they’re taking a day off, they’re burning a sick day that they’ve earned in order to do it.

But read all that again from the top: The key part of Ford’s statement that galls me is that he’s focusing on people taking taxpayer money to take *A* day off, while he’s back from *a 102-day break from his work.*

Very much playing “Look at this distraction, everyone! No, no, don’t look at those facts, look at this distraction over here.”

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And related: The 24-hour news cycle somehow doesn’t have time to get into the details of this issue, but the reason that Ford is trying to eliminate himself from the Freedom of Information Act is because he was ordered by three judges and the RCMP to hand over his phone records regarding the Greenbelt scandal and hasn’t done so for three years running.

All that I had heard about the issue in Parliament yesterday was Marit Stiles wanting the FOI to remain intact and Ford insisting it’s just the opposition and media who want it to remain. But all with zero deeper detail about what’s happening that has that issue being discussed in the first place.

The fact is that if the FOI changes, Ford gets excluded *retroactively as well* from having to hand over anything related to his phone records and the Greenbelt scandal he’s been trying to shake loose for years.

Mar 24 at 3:42pmWeb
Show threadThird spruce tree on the left17h ago

@reay or.. why for example the science center got moved (friends own the lots surrounding it) or why the 413 is being rammed through (surrounding land owned by friends).

Thing that drives me nuts is Wynne was booted to the curb because of a cover-up she merely inherited. This guy is a blatant criminal and we're ok with this?