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Why Doug Ford’s government spends more than $6B/year subsidizing hydro rates

When Premier Doug Ford’s government tables its new budget on Thursday, expect to see more than $6 billion devoted to subsidizing hydro bills.

Although previous Liberal governments also spent taxpayer money on lowering electricity prices, Ford’s Progressive Conservatives have taken it to such a level that it is now one of the single biggest line items in the Ontario budget.

The 2022-23 provincial budget earmarked $6.3 billion for “electricity cost-relief programs,” nearly four times as much as the $1.6 billion Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals budgeted for such programs in 2018.

by Blazingcatfur•March 21, 2023March 20, 2023•0•Ontario, Ontario - Your Future Is Elsewhere

‘Why didn’t we see this coming?’ Ontario Liberals release scathing review of election failure

The Ontario Liberals have delivered a scathing post-mortem into their “devastating and disappointing” election defeat to Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives last June.

In a candid critique, the Liberals acknowledge they were hindered by an “unpopular” leader in Steven Del Duca, a woolly campaign platform, poor voter-identification data, inadequate candidate vetting, and a lack of money and volunteers.

by Blazingcatfur•January 6, 2023January 5, 2023•0•Ontario

GOLDSTEIN: High taxes in Ontario hurting provincial, federal economies, says report

High personal and corporate income tax rates in Ontario are damaging the provincial and Canadian economies, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute released Thursday.

The fiscally conservative think tank says that because of federal and provincial tax increases over the past decade, Ontario has the third-highest top combined federal/provincial and federal/state personal income tax (PIT) rate in both Canada and the U.S.

by Blazingcatfur•January 5, 2023January 5, 2023•0•Ontario, Ontario - Your Future Is Elsewhere

‘A canary in the coal mine.’ People keep leaving Ontario in record numbers for affordable homes and a better life

Christine Gregoire-Lauzon and her husband bought a home they’d never seen, in a city where they didn’t know anyone, on the other side of the country, this year.

“The first time that I had ever been to Alberta was to do job interviews,” said Gregoire-Lauzon, who moved to the Calgary area from Pickering with her family in the summer. “Nobody else — my parents, my husband or my children — had ever been to Alberta until we came.”

She joins thousands of other real estate exiles who give a new meaning to the term “drive until you qualify,” taking weeklong car journeys or flying thousands of kilometres to another province, looking for a more affordable life.

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2022December 28, 2022•0•Ontario, Ontario - Your Future Is Elsewhere

Doug Ford accuses Toronto of mismanaging its finances in housing bill dispute

Mayor John Tory and Premier Doug Ford appear headed for a showdown over the financial impacts of Ontario’s new housing bill.

A day after Tory demanded the provincial Progressive Conservative government make an ironclad promise to fully compensate Toronto for any development charge revenue the city loses as a result of the legislation, Ford asserted the bill will have no ill effect on municipalities’ bottom lines, and accused Toronto of mismanaging the revenue it already collects.

Huge waste is a given in all things government.

by Blazingcatfur•December 2, 2022December 1, 2022•0•"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", Ontario

Doug Ford wanted to go to war with the unions. Instead, he shot himself in the foot

Last week, Ontario Premier Doug Ford launched the constitutional equivalent of a nuclear first strike on public-sector unions. And then, facing a predictable and equally extreme union counterstrike – public schools mostly closed; an economy-wide general strike on tap – he abruptly reversed course.

As one labour leader put it on Monday at a celebratory press conference, Mr. Ford “blinked.” He sure did. He offered what diplomats trying to end a war refer to as a return to the “status quo ante” – things as they were before the shooting started. The government promised to repeal the legislation that used the notwithstanding clause to impose a contract; the union representing 55,000 education workers agreed to end its strike so negotiations can resume.

by Blazingcatfur•November 8, 2022November 8, 2022•0•Ontario

CUPE announces end to strike after Doug Ford offers to rescind education law

The union representing 55,000 education workers across Ontario is committing to end their mass walkout on Tuesday after Premier Doug Ford offered to rescind the legislation that made the strike illegal.

CUPE Ontario School Board Council of Unions President Laura Walton said Ford agreed to put his commitment to repeal the legislation that made the Ontario education workers’ strike illegal in writing.

by Blazingcatfur•November 7, 2022•0•Ontario

GOLDSTEIN: Ford government flirts with disaster on electricity file

The good news is the Ford government in Ontario finally appears to have figured out that shutting down the Pickering nuclear plant while simultaneously eliminating natural gas-fired electricity from the grid would be a disaster, leading to blackouts and soaring electricity bills.

by Blazingcatfur•October 2, 2022October 1, 2022•0•"Energy Matters", Ontario

Ontario minimum wage hike kicks in; most workers now make at least $15.50 per hour

Ontarians who make minimum wage are waking up to a raise.

Starting Saturday, the general minimum wage is up 50 cents to $15.50 per hour — a move announced by the Ford government in April.

This won’t happen again, the corporate and political class have conspired to flood the nation with immigrants in order to drives wages down.

by Blazingcatfur•October 1, 2022October 1, 2022•0•Ontario

LTC Bill Passes

Screw Doug Ford:

Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government has passed legislation that would force hospital patients awaiting long-term care into nursing homes not of their choosing on a temporary basis.

But Premier Doug Ford says patients who refuse to move will not be charged an uninsured rate of $1,800 per day.

by Osumashi•August 31, 2022•0•Doug Ford, Ontario, Ontario - Your Future Is Elsewhere

Warning by Ontario’s Dr. Moore of Myocarditis Risk After COVID Shot Comes Too Late

Ontario’s vaccine recommendations have been completely nonsensical throughout the pandemic. Consider the Ministry of Health’s baseless campaign to boost the entire adult and youth population:

“All individuals in Ontario aged ≥12 years of age are recommended to receive a first booster dose after completion of a primary COVID-19 vaccine series,” the ministry said on July 14.

What benefit does a healthy 23-year-old man with prior infection and two vaccine doses have to gain from a third jab?

by Sarcasticat•August 6, 2022August 5, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", "Comply!", "Experts", Ontario, vaccine controversy

GOLDSTEIN: Ford outspending Wynne government he condemned for overspending, says report

Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government will outspend the previous government of Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne this year, even when adjusted for inflation and COVID-19 expenditures, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.

by Blazingcatfur•August 4, 2022August 4, 2022•0•Ontario, WTF?

A new diaspora: Immigrants and the vast demographic shift in rural Ontario

Many immigrant families in Ontario are moving out of heavy populated urban areas for smaller cities and rural communities. One of those towns is Bradford.

by Sarcasticat•July 29, 2022July 28, 2022•0•Immigration invasion, Ontario, Population replacement

COVID-19 vaccine bookings for babies and toddlers open in Ontario

Ontario parents expressed excitement and relief Thursday as the province opened COVID-19 vaccine bookings for babies and preschoolers, with shots for some set to be administered later in the day.

Appointments for children aged six months to under five years were available through the province’s online booking portal, public health units using their own booking systems, certain pharmacies and some primary care providers.

by Sarcasticat•July 29, 2022July 28, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", "Comply!", Child Abuse, Ontario, vaccine controversy

Schools aren’t in session but that won’t stop the radical activists

Indoctrination of the innocent doesn’t seem to stop even during the summer months.

Even though schools aren’t in session, woke activists are springing out of the woodwork every day to keep radical trans/LGBTQ ideology on the front burner.

Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) trustee Karen Meissner is promoting a “binding” workshop for this Saturday at the Kitchener public library.

by Sarcasticat•July 22, 2022July 21, 2022•0•Batshit crazy lefties, Big Gay, Big Tranny, Gender, Indoctrination, Ontario, transgender, transgendered children