Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government is planning to skip public hearings to pass its omnibus budget bill that contains a retroactive clampdown on access to his cellphone records.
The retroactive FOI law would shield Ford and cabinet members — along with their offices — from public access to documents, with Ford admitting that part of the rationale is to kill a request from Global News to obtain his cellphone records.
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grey_maniac@lemmy.ca · 50 pts · 126d
Two questions:
Alberta is batshit crazy, Saskatchewan is apparently full of assholes, and Ontario seems to want this. There arw not a lot of decent places left to live on this continent.
Triumph@fedia.io · 15 pts · 126d
Mexico just got universal healthcare.
ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 126d
And in the meantime Canada is soon approaching a time when all healthcare will become for-profit like in the US, and the whole 'we never could have afforded it in the first place. It was always a bad idea' by both Libs and Cons will start to be spouted.
Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 124d
Brought to you by Doug Ford
ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 121d
And many, many others.
nik282000@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 126d
(2) In bulk Canadians are only a hair ahead of americans in decision making skills. And a quiet minority makes a lot of money with Ford at the wheel.
(1) That quiet minority makes sure it will never be investigated.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 124d
He leads the law makers.
Because Ontario is cold Florida full of MAGAs, and the majority of people don't vote and prefer to take it up the ass.
grey_maniac@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 124d
This should be a major ethics violation. I am amazed parliamentary procedures allow it. Maybe the lieutenant governor can be persuaded to refuse to sign it.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 124d
The more he fights trump the more he becomes like him. He looked into the abyss for way too long.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 124d
They were never that different. Ford just didn't think he could get away with it before Trump showed him.