Demolition Doug and the Destructive Ford Cabinet
Ford’s Handpicked Team
After calling a snap election and becoming the first party to put forward a full slate of election candidates, Doug Ford has been bragging about the quantity of his handpicked team.
(Of course, it’s worth remembering that the only reason Ford was able to nominate a full slate of candidates the weekend before the election was called is because he controlled the timing of the election.)
But when it comes to party candidates, I suspect the average Ontario voter is more concerned about the quality of their candidates than the quantity. And the team Ford has assembled in cabinet, caucus, and on the campaign trail leaves a lot to be desired.
While I won’t go through all 124 of Ford’s candidates, I think it’s worth taking a high-level look at the records of those he has tapped for Cabinet. Their behaviour speaks volumes about them as MPPs, about Ford’s judgment as Premier, and about whether any of them deserve another term in office.
Ford’s Cabinet
Peter Bethlenfalvy (Pickering-Uxbridge):
Bethlenfalvy became Minister of Finance after the previous minister was fired for vacationing overseas during pandemic restrictions. He’s the architect of Bill 124, which illegally limited the bargaining rights of public sector workers and was overturned by the Ontario Superior Court which declared it unconstitutional. He has also been the lead minister for each of the Ford Government’s budgets from 2021-onward that have cut services while ballooning costs, including the 2024 budget which maintained a deficit of $9.8 billion.
Paul Calandra (Markham-Stouffville):
Calandra was a former Chief of Staff in the Mike Harris Government and a former Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister Stephen Harper responsible for dealing with the fallout from the Conservative Senate expense scandal. Before he was elected as an MP, he was embroiled in a family dispute where, according to the Ottawa Citizen, he was “accused of taking money from his dying mother and suggesting he should kill his sister.” He became Minister of Housing after public pressure forced the previous minister to resign over his involvement in the Greenbelt scandal, which is still being investigated by the RCMP. As Minister of Municipal Affairs, he promised to reform municipal council rules to eliminate harassment but delayed the legislation, voted down similar legislation from the opposition Liberals, and ultimately allowed the bill to die due to an election being called.
Raymond Cho (Scarborough North):
Cho previously ran as an NDP candidate, as a Liberal, and as an independent before running in a 2016 by-election with Doug Ford as his campaign chair. During the 2018 general election, he was accused of having a physical altercation with a 12 year-old child outside of a school.
Stan Cho (Willowdale):
In 2022, Cho was accused of worsening homelessness in his community by holding up a supportive housing project meant to address it. While the city approved the building, Cho personally wrote the Minister of Housing requesting he not give it the province’s approval. That same year, Cho was accused of accepting illegal corporate contributions from a local business that offered to pay its workers overtime to campaign on his behalf.
Stephen Crawford (Oakville):
In 2021, Crawford wrote to the Minister of Housing and successfully got a proposed development quashed that would have seen 3,000 homes built in his community.
Doug Downey (Barrie — Springwater — Oro-Medonte):
Downey carried out a 30% $133 million cut to legal aid in Ontario. He also allowed violent offenders to be released after being unable to stand trial because of a failure by the Ford government to staff and fund Ontario court rooms. And he has politicized Ontario’s non-partisan court-system by appointing former Ford staffers to the recommendation committee in order to appoint ‘like-minded’ conservative judges.
Jill Dunlop (Simcoe North):
As the Minister of Training, Colleges, and Universities, she raised $27,000 from executives representing private colleges at political events supporting her local riding association. This money was part of $151,000 raised by the PCs from executives of private colleges after the Ford Government reversed a decision by the previous Liberal government to end partnerships these colleges had with publicly funded institutions. She also announced new funding for the sector that advice from the Ford Government’s own expert panel suggested was actually a $1.2 billion funding shortfall.
Vic Fedeli (Nipissing):
Fedeli was tapped as Ford’s first Finance Minister and delivered some of the deepest service cuts of the Ford conservatives’ entire time in office. He was demoted after only one year amid slumping poll numbers. As the local MPP for Nipissing, he sat back as a much-lauded residential addictions treatment centre at Canadore College was first delayed then cancelled, a part of the Ford Government’s wider cancellation of science-backed addictions treatment facilities across the province. As Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, he has been at Ford’s side while their government’s “tenure marks the slowest economic growth period of any Ontario government on record — even that of the recession-battered Rae NDP government.” Fedeli has defended Ford calling an early election, stating it was necessary to respond to Trump’s tariffs. Fedeli attended Trump’s inauguration but has said little about what he achieved by doing so.
Mike Harris Jr. (Kitchener-Conestoga):
Harris is the son of former slash and burn Premier Mike Harris. In 2023, Harris’ office was picketed by a community group after they had not heard back from him or his office after 11 weeks. Premier Ford noticed this work ethic and promoted Harris to become Minister of Red Tape Reduction. In 2024, Harris was protested again for failing to meet with another community group concerned about the repurposing of local farmland for industrial use. Harris, along with the Minister of Housing, passed Bill 185, the Cutting Red Tape to Build More Housing Act, which was largely meant to eliminate red tape in the housing sector. Instead, Ontario reported its second worst June housing sales month in a decade.
Sylvia Jones (Dufferin-Caledon):
As Solicitor General in 2021, Jones gave police the authority to question anyone outside of their home, instituted a $750 non-compliance fine, and closed neighbourhood parks preventing children from playing within them. A former PC candidate compared the measures to a “police state”. As Minister of Health, she refused to support a national inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic. She stated that repealing illegal wage caps on nurses during a nursing shortage crisis was a “conversation for another day”. She was silent as 10,000 patients at a single medical centre lost access to frontline care because of staffing shortages. She ignored expert recommendations on safe consumption sites, putting lives at risk. She has been the chief architect of the privatization of surgical and other health care in Ontario even as patients complain of being billed for extra charges. According to Ontario Financial Accountability Office, Jones has overseen the creation of a $21 billion shortfall in public health funding. And finally, she has failed to take action as the doctor shortage grew from 1.8 million people without a doctor in 2020 to 2.5 million without a doctor in 2024.
Michael Kerzner (York Centre):
As Solicitor General, Kerzner has bailed out municipalities who lack the budget to pay for ballooning OPP salaries to the tune of $77 million. He also put forward a plan to require use of provincially-approved candidate shortlists when selecting local police board representatives. It was passed at Cabinet but scuttled by Ford ahead of an early election call (expect this to come back if they’re re-elected). Kerzner has spent hundreds of millions of dollars arming municipal police forces with military-style gear and vehicles, funding the purchase of new police helicopters in Toronto and Durham and introducing legislation that would “require all front line Ontario officers to have ready access to the semi-automatic rifle and training in its use.” Directly working against police, he assured lobbyists for the National Firearms Association that Ontario would not participate in a federal gun buy-back program.
Kerzner has also overseen the addition of hundreds of new prison beds to address overcrowding at intermittent detention centres after previously shutting down these centres in favour of using ankle monitors. He has also expanded Ontario’s prison footprint, approving new prisons in several communities like Kemptville and Thunder Bay while failing to pay the province’s fair share of the costs in communities like Penetanguishene. Despite the increased spending, conditions in provincial detention centres are worsening, with inmates failing to get access to basic menstrual products, being zip-tied, pepper sprayed, beaten, and strip searched, all while inmate deaths have doubled. Kerzner refused to offer an apology to the family of one such inmate after failing to call an inquest into his death. Kerzner’s lack of interest in the causes of death in Ontario also extends to the job site where he ended mandatory coroner’s inquests into construction site deaths.
Andrea Khanjin (Barrie-Innisfil):
In 2024, Khanjin crashed her vehicle into a childcare centre in her community, stating she blacked out behind the wheel due to her pregnancy. While the children were thankfully outside during the crash, employees of the centre said that they never received an apology or follow-up on their well-being from Khanjin. Also in 2024, her constituency staff referred residents looking for shelter options to a $500 per-person for-profit encampment erected on a landlord’s property.
Natalia Kusendova-Bashta (Mississauga Centre):
In 2022, the Integrity Commissioner ruled that a complaint about Kusendova-Bahta accepting $30,000 from an old boyfriend to pay off her student loans had to be dropped because of the upcoming election. The ex-boyfriend sued Kusendova-Bashta claiming the money was a loan and not a gift. As Minister of Long-Term Care, Kusendova-Bashta was criticized for dismissing proposed opposition legislation that would allow partners to remain together when entering long-term care. Before the election was called, and after allowing long-term care homes to fall into disrepair and go without basic fire-safety features like sprinkler systems, the Minister worked to make long-term care homes exempt from zoning and planning rules. According to the Ontario Long-Term Care Association, the waitlist for long-term care spaces has doubled and there are now 48,000 people on the waitlist in Ontario.
Stephen Lecce (King-Vaughan):
Lecce is a former Director of Media Relations for Stephen Harper. As Ontario’s Education Minister, he introduced Bill 28, making it illegal for education workers to strike by invoking the Not-Withstanding Clause to suspend their Charter rights. After serious backlash the government rescinded the legislation. Also as Minister of Education, he oversaw a $6 billion cut to public education. He also undercut the National Child Care Program in Ontario by keeping worker wages low and driving them from the sector. He also eliminated $85 million in provincial funding for the program. In 2024, a report by Ontario’s Integrity Commissioner investigated how, as Minister of Education, Lecce approved a new school be built on land owned by a developer who previously hosted a $1,000 per ticket fundraiser on Lecce’s behalf.
Neil Lumsden (Hamilton East-Stoney Creek):
Lumsden served as COO of the 2003 Road World Cycling Championships. As Minister of Sport, he went against cycling and public safety advocates by endorsing Premier Ford’s removal of bike lanes, stating that increased helmet usage should be the priority instead.
Todd McCarthy (Durham):
As Minister of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement, McCarthy is responsible for overseeing Service Ontario. According to the Auditor General, Service Ontario has repeatedly failed to meet its digital adoption targets to better serve Ontarians. Service Ontario’s service standards are over 15 years old and locations rarely meet these standards. The AG’s report also found that physical and cyber security measures are weak and at risk of being compromised. As Minister, McCarthy also pulled 11 Service Ontario locations from local providers and awarded them to American corporations Staples and Walmart. While McCarthy claimed the move would save taxpayers $1 million, Ontario’s Financial Accountability Office found that the plan cost 50% more than expected and would leave taxpayers with a $11.7 million bill.
Caroline Mulroney (York-Simcoe):
Mulroney is the daughter of former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Appointed as Minister of Francophone Affairs, one of her first acts was to cancel Ontario’s first Francophone University. After great blowback, she later uncancelled it. As Attorney General, she backed Ford’s constitutionally questionable use of the Notwithstanding Clause to halve the size of Toronto’s City Council in the middle of an election. She also backed the 30% cut in funding to legal aid in Ford’s 2019 budget that would be carried out by her successor, Doug Downey. In 2023, Mulroney accepted a patronage honour from Ford that is given to lawyers despite the fact that she has only practiced in New York as a dual American-Canadian citizen.
As Ontario’s longest serving Transportation Minister since the 1980s, she oversaw continued delays with the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, doing nothing to advance the project, provide an expected opening date, or fix Metrolinx to prevent future similar debacles in the future. This is despite the fact that she eliminated the historically arms-length nature of the transportation authority as minister. In fact, the CEO of Metrolinx confirmed that the organization was banned from commenting on the Crosstown LRT project without first consulting with the Premier’s Office. As Minister, she also oversaw the construction launch of the TTC’s “Ontario Line”, which was panned as being a lesser relief line than the one already proposed by the City of Toronto. This line, and projects like Therme’s Ontario Place redevelopment which the line will lead to, has caused enormous traffic congestion in Toronto’s downtown core which has been used to justify other projects such as the removal of bike lanes and the construction of a tunnel under Highway 401. She has also been a fervent supporter of the Highway 413 project, which would pave over crucial farmland and is opposed by the Ontario Farmland Trust. As Treasury Board President, Mulroney has been accused of presiding over a public sector wage framework that is racist, sexist, and undermining efforts to improve home care.
Sam Oosterhoff (Niagara West):
Oosterhoff was first elected in a by-election where his conservative views on abortion, same-sex relationships, and sex-ed came under fire. Controversial far-right figure Charles McVety, who would later have the ear of Doug Ford as Premier, came to Oosterhoff’s defense and accused then leader Patrick Brown of muzzling him. After winning election, Oosterhoff’s swearing in as a new MPP was delayed long enough for him to avoid a vote on a bill allowing same-sex couples to become legal parents. He later said he would not have supported it and declared that it was “disrespectful to mothers and fathers”. In 2019, he attended the March for Life protest and said he wished to make “abortion unthinkable in our lifetime”. During COVID-19 restrictions, attended an event that broke provincial social distancing requirements and where no one present was masking. In 2021, while serving as the Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Education, he headlined an anti-abortion event put on by the National Campus Life Network that compared abortion to the Holocaust. Despite all of these instances of poor judgement, Premier Ford saw fit to make Oosterhoff Ontario’s youngest ever cabinet minister, paying back the far-right religious supporters who helped secure the PC leadership for him in 2018.
Michael Parsa (Aurora — Oak Ridges — Richmond Hill):
As Minister of Children, Community and Social Services, Parsa has watched the autism services waitlist grow to 70,000 despite doubling program spending. When it was revealed that a child dies in Ontario’s child welfare system every three days, Parsa refused to commit to any plan or timeline to reduce child welfare deaths. Parsa eventually committed to an audit of children’s aid societies but Ford called an early election before auditors could report back. In 2024, Ontario’s Financial Accountability Officer revealed that Parsa and Ford had allocated $3.7 billion less than was needed to fund existing social programming. The report also found that while funding for supportive housing for adults with disabilities had increased, the number of people who had actually been housed had decreased under Ford while the waitlist for housing increased by 10,000. This is after the Ford conservatives completed their promised overhaul of developmental services funding. When the federal government began to introduce its plans for a new federal disability benefit, Parsa refused to rule out clawing back provincial dollars given to recipients of the Ontario Disability Support Program. When federal officials expressly asked the provinces not to claw back their payments, Parsa again refused to rule it out.
David Piccini (Northumberland — Peterborough South):
As Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities, Piccini helped kill debt-free post-secondary tuition for middle- and low-income Ontario students that the Liberals established under the OSAP program. As Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks, Piccini defended the Ford government’s use of special zoning orders to circumvent environmental assessments. In 2021, he denied the findings of a report from Ontario’s Auditor General that Ontario was ignoring environmental law and allowing polluters to continue polluting unchallenged. That same year, Environmental Defence took Piccini to task for regularly overstating the Ford Government’s climate and environmental record. In 2022, Piccini was endorsed by a local businessman with ties to the Hells Angels. The same year, he was also endorsed by the anti-abortion organization Campaign Life Coalition. In 2023, Piccini defended the clearing of encampments despite a court decision that deemed the practice a violation of the Charter of Rights.
George Pirie (Timmins):
The one-term MPP first made a splash in the news for the cost of his victory party in 2022, which cost $23,000. In 2023, as Minister of Mines, Pirie introduced Bill 71, the Building More Mines Act, which gave him the authority to “assess project safety and closure plans” in the mining sector, removing that authority from non-partisan staff and doing so despite criticism from First Nations communities and legal experts. That same year, under Pirie’s leadership, Ontario failed to make the top 10 of a global list of most investment-ready mining jurisdictions due to the Ford Government’s failure to settle land claims disputes with First Nations. First Nations groups in the so-called Ring of Fire area cited Bill 71 and the province’s failure to meet its duty to consult as reasons for the continuing disputes. Pirie was also accused of overstating the value of the minerals in the Ring of Fire and potentially opening the province up to claims of fraud given it could be used to create valuations in the area. In 2024, Pirie dismissed a request from the Chiefs of Ontario to institute a one-year moratorium on staking new mining claims in the province. This followed an earlier denied request in 2022 by the Anishinabek Nation. Both instances were highlighted as another failure by Pirie to meet his duty to consult First Nations. NDP MPP Sol Mamakwa, who represents the northern riding of Kiiwetinoong, accused Pirie of making colonial comments about northern communities when Pirie stated that the north is “largely empty and begging for exploration drill holes”. Pirie has also been called out by his NDP opponent in this election for failing to secure any funding from his own government to address homelessness in his local community.
Nolan Quinn (Stormont — Dundas — South Glengarry):
Quinn has only been Minister of Colleges and Universities for about six months. He’s been left to manage the fallout from the Ford Government’s decision to allow the sector to become heavily dependent on international student tuition payments. While the province has delivered $1.3 billion in funding relief for the sector, the government’s own expert panel suggested the number needed is actually $2.5 billion. The Council of Ontario Universities has stated that by 2030, the funding gap Quinn continues to oversee may prevent 100,000 potential students from accessing university. In August 2024, Quinn was asked not to attend a local Pride Parade due to anti-trans comments by his party’s leadership and his vote against a private member’s bill in the legislature that would have created an advisory committee on gender-affirming health care.
Greg Rickford (Kenora-Rainy River):
Rickford was first elected as a Harper Conservative in 2008 and remained in Harper’s caucus until his defeat in 2015. Since being elected at the provincial level in 2018, he has been Ford’s only Minister of Indigenous Affairs and the person most responsible for the Ford Government’s failures when it comes to Reconciliation. In 2019, Rickford was accused of using a “divide and conquer” approach to negotiating mining deals with First Nations communities. In 2021, residential school survivors stated that they felt uncomfortable with Rickford handling of the search for graves given his alleged mishandling of survivor compensation payments in a previous job. That same year, the Chief of Grassy Narrows First Nation stated that he was upset over Rickford refusing to discuss mining exploration permits granted by the province in the First Nation’s traditional territory. In 2022, Rickford also spoke out about federal efforts to establish Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs), claiming they encroach on Ontario’s jurisdiction.
In 2023, the chief of the Caldwell First Nation called for Rickford’s resignation for refusing to meet with First Nations leaders at the Legislature. Chief Turtle from Grassy Narrows First Nations elaborated that he was against mining given the still unaddressed mercury poisoning in that First Nation’s lands the government has pledge to clean up for years. Also in 2023, the Cat Lake First Nation accused Rickford of failing in his duty to consult and allowing unsustainable mining practices on their lands. That same year, Doug Ford rejected a request to meet with several Chiefs from the “Ring of Fire” area of Northern Ontario who were concerned with mining operations in their territories. The Chiefs refused to meet with Rickford. Also in 2023, Neskantaga First Nation Chief Moonias stated that Ford and Rickford’s promises of prosperity ring hollow given the government’s failure to meet with the First Nation and the fact that the community remains under a 28 year boil water advisory.
In 2024, the Chiefs of Ontario filed a court document against Rickford stating that he had made “threats of retribution” during a call with a Regional Chief. Ahead of Truth and Reconciliation Day in 2024, Rickford opposed a bill proposed put forward by the Legislature’s only First Nations MPP and residential school survivor, Sol Mamakwa, that would have made the day a statutory holiday. Rickford argued that the bill did not have the backing of Indigenous people even though Mamakwa had the backing of the Chiefs of Ontario and 39 First Nations.
As Minister of Energy, Rickford was also responsible for the cancelling of 758 renewable energy contracts at the beginning of Ford’s first term in office. While he claimed it would save taxpayers $790 million, it instead ended up costing the province $231 million. Rickford was also responsible for the rollout of anti-carbon tax stickers applied to gas pumps across the province and the related $150 fine to owners that failed to display the stickers. The stickers, which were even opposed by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, were used as a visual reminder to voters of the Ford Government’s ultimately fruitless $30 million lawsuits against the federal government over the tax. In 2019, Rickford was also caught quoting from a website that denied the existence of human-caused climate change. He then refused to back down and “called the publication one of his favourite periodicals”. Later in a press scrum, Rickford claimed he believed in human-caused climate change then quickly left without answering any further questions.
Prabmeet Singh Sarkaria (Brampton South):
Sarkaria served as the Associate Minister of Small Business and Red Tape Reduction during the COVID-19 pandemic. Canadian Federation of Independent Business President Dan Kelly stated that under Sarkaria’s leadership, there was “no government in Canada that did more to directly harm its small-business community.” Ford then promoted Sarkaria to President of the Treasury Board where his biggest achievement was banning Tik Tok from government devices and the personal devices of PC MPPs. In 2021, Sarkaria failed to address hallway healthcare in his home community of Brampton by voting against building a new hospital and delivering an additional 600 acute care beds. As Minister of Transportation, Sarkaria extended Metrolinx CEO Phil Verster’s contract despite his complete failure to deliver the Eglinton-Crosstown LRT or provide meaningful status updates about when it might be delivered. In 2024, Sarkaria led the charge on Ford’s plan to rip out bike lanes, claiming it would improve gridlock. This is despite the massive cost to remove them and ample research, including in the Ford government’s own briefing materials, that shows bike lanes don’t increase gridlock. Sarkaria then went further to legally protect the Ford government from being sued by injured cyclists of the families of any cyclists who might be killed due to this policy shift.
Graydon Smith (Parry Sound-Muskoka):
As Mayor of Bracebridge, Smith was charged with violating the Endangered Species Act by harming an at-risk species of turtle in his community by ordering construction in its habitat. The charges were eventually dropped and Ford appointed Smith as Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry. In 2023, Smith announced new funding for forest fire management and failed to invite or allow local fire rangers into the event. The rangers criticized Smith for failing to address staff retention issues and the health risks of the job. Smith was criticized for animal cruelty a second time, this time by former Ontario conservation officers for expanding dog hunting in the province. In 2024, Smith amended the Conservation Authorities Act to allow development to encroach on wetlands and reduce water quality protections. The changes also granted the Minister the ability to force local conservation authorities to approve development permits of any type so long as it’s in the province’s interest. Smith’s legislation to address Ontario’s 24,000 abandoned hazardous oil and gas wells was criticized by experts for falling short and putting the public in danger.
King Surma (Etobicoke Centre):
Surma began her political career under a cloud with accusations that Doug Ford illegally purchased PC Party memberships on her behalf and intimidated her nomination opponent in 2018. After the Ford Conservatives swept to power, she was embroiled in a nepotism scandal after it was revealed her father had been given a job under Minister Vic Fedeli. Once she became Minister of Infrastructure, she greenlit the destruction of Ontario Place. She was accused by the NDP of giving preferential treatment to Therme to build a spa in its place. Ontario’s Auditor General determined that the site redevelopment process overseen by Surma was “unfair”. She also controversially defended the sudden closure of the Ontario Science Centre, citing safety concerns even as engineers stated that the building remained safe to occupy. Surma also greenlit the province’s $100 million with Elon Musk’s Starlink to provide internet to 15,000 people in Northern Ontario. That deal was canceled then reopened after the Trump administration, of which Musk is a member, threatened Canada with tariffs.
Lisa Thompson (Huron-Bruce):
In 2018, as PC Caucus Chair, Thompson helped oust fellow MP Michael Harris with claims of sexual misconduct that were refuted by text messages on Harris’ phone. The MPP was removed from caucus anyway and replaced on the local ballot with Mike Harris Jr, the son of former premier Mike Harris (both have no relation to Michael Harris). Thompson’s first role in the Ford Government was as Education Minister were she immediately helped rollback long overdue changes to the province’s sex-ed curriculum related to consent and LGBTQ identity. Thompson then created a snitch line to report any teachers who moved ahead and taught the revised and widely consulted on curriculum. In 2019, the Ford government faced a legal challenge by the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association for restoring the 1998 curriculum. In the midst of making cuts to education, Thompson also argued that larger class sizes make students “more resilient”. In 2019, Thompson was named Minister of Government and Consumer Services and left to defend the Ford Government’s license plate replacement efforts. While Thompson initially argued there was nothing wrong with the new blue plates, they were eventually scrapped for being unreadable at night after complaints from several groups including police and Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD).
Michael Tibollo (Vaughan-Woodbridge):
Tibollo faced multiple lawsuits from his previous work as a lawyer after “allegations of professional misconduct by his law firm and a failure to pay debts”. Ford made him a candidate and then a government minister anyway. As Minister of Community Safety and Corrections, Tibollo wore a bulletproof vest to visit the Jane and Finch neighbourhood. Despite being responsible for overseeing the OPP, he campaigned for a city council candidate under investigation by the police force. As a Minister, appeared at a City of Vaughan council meeting to oppose the construction of new housing. As Associate Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, he delayed the approval of new safe consumption sites for multiple years. He also oversaw multi-year delays of a mental health and addictions centre in Northern Ontario. Most notably, he ignored expert recommendations on safe consumption sites, was responsible for the closure of 60% of Ontario’s sites, and outlawed the creation of new sites to replace them.
Turning the Corner
Ford is right that Ontario’s future is worth protecting. But what our province needs protecting from most is a scandal-plagued premier who has made Ontario a tougher place to build a life. The truth is, much like after the destruction of the Mike Harris years, it’s going to take a long time for Ontario to turn the corner. But the first step to recovery is sending Ford and his team packing on February 27.
Theresa has served as the Communications Coordinator for the Ontario Liberal Party, the Director of Communications to Ontario Deputy Premier Deb Matthews, and an election speechwriter for former Premier Kathleen Wynne. She owns a communications company operating out of Toronto.
