Editor,
An open letter to Premier Doug Ford.
Congratulations on your 19 week break from Queen’s Park so that you can return refreshed in late October. Chaos created, job done.
And on the recent appointment of the largest number of Ministers and Parliamentary Assistants in the history of Ontario as taxpayers fund the most expensive group of politicians now not sitting in the House for a record break with their increased salaries. Clever. Take the money and run!
And on underfunding social services by 4 billion dollars. Deteriorating services, abandoning of the most vulnerable while spending a quarter of a billion dollars to break a beer store contract a year early so that taxpayers will lose about 100 million a year! Brilliant. Raise a beer to that one!
The cost to health care and policing of drinking continues to rise. The LCBO expects a loss of 98 to 150 million dollars annually, and a strike is expected as well. Best to be at the cottage for that too. Well thought out!
The Auditor General pointed out the 25 million spent on an ad campaign promoting a fiction that health care is improving in Ontario while emergency departments close down, and the system is overburdened and understaffed and underfunded. ‘Ignorance is Strength’ is the slogan from Orwell’s 1984. Your leadership is so strong!
Cancel waste water testing too. Why would we need to monitor that?
Cancel public labs and make citizens pay for water testing. If they want to know if their well is contaminated, make them pay! Cost savings to pay off friends and family, the real people who matter. Like the backroom deal for a foreign owned mega spa at Ontario Place with a 95 year contract and 600 million of taxpayer’s money in subsidies!
Way to go on naming Steve Clark as House Leader! Just ignore that Greenbelt debacle! What a role model and fearless leader for the gravy train team!
The Premier’s personal staff, the biggest ever again, costs the taxpayers 6.9 million which matches the largest Cabinet ever salaries . Wonder what the peasants are doing?
Create chaos in education, social services, health care, environmental protection, well, everywhere really. So much cost saving to hand over to your buddies!
No affordable housing in sight and municipalities reeling from the constant changes and pronouncements. Take away planning from regions and return it to small municipalities with no planners on staff. Pure genius. Oh, and take away third party appeals too. Nice touch.
And 10 billion for the 413 and your developer friends through the Greenbelt. Nice! Pave over that ‘just a bunch of weeds’ farmland throughout the province with all that sprawl!
You have pulled it off, Doug! Using Ontario tax money to pay off your people at the expense of the taxpayers and they can do nothing about it! Let them eat cake!
Enjoy your 19 week vacation. Chaos created. Your work here is done! For now…
Donna McCaw, Elora
