Canadian Politics
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I'm really nervous about the Ontario election in June. Thanks to our entirely Conservative owned Canadian media (the new owner or CEO - I can't remember - of the Toronto Star had a series of anti vax tweets), people have very little idea of how much Doug Ford has done and is planning to do. No one's talking about how he's quietly building 6 privatized hospitals while holding photo ops about how many new hospital beds they're building and not mentioning that they'll be for paying customers. No one talks about the 38,000 kids with autism who are now on a waitlist to receive treatment and support. No one talks about he's made it nearly impossible to get a covid test now that everything's opened up so he can downplay the number of daily cases. No one talks about the $4 billion unaccounted for out of the $12 billion of covid funding the federal government gave us which is the same amount of tax cuts he's given to corporations. No one talks about how he just cut $600 million from OSAP or $1 billion for disabled workers or $7.9 billion from seniors or $71 billion from First Nations people or 70% of our forest firefighting budget. The license plate rebates everyone's been getting are essentially bribes to reelect him
Steven Del Duca should be everywhere right now screaming these facts but hardly anyone knows who he is with a little more than a month to go. I went to the opening of my Liberal candidate's office the other day and could not believe the lack of enthusiasm in the room, even from young politicians and community leaders
Steven Del Duca should be everywhere right now screaming these facts but hardly anyone knows who he is with a little more than a month to go. I went to the opening of my Liberal candidate's office the other day and could not believe the lack of enthusiasm in the room, even from young politicians and community leaders
Yeah, I’ve been an Ontario resident for basically my entire life and it’s weird how much people are downplaying a Ford landslide. He rarely gets questioned about his lies or really anything substantive that has an effect on our daily lives. But I’m pretty blackpilled on what any other major party could do in power to be honest. Even with a majority.
Do people care that our "universal health care" is slowly being dismantled? Hardly anyone seemed to notice when eye exams stopped being covered years ago
I've been volunteering for my local Liberal candidate these past few weeks, canvassing almost everyday, and the number of apathetic or uneducated people I spoke to was shocking. I'd remind them about the LTC deaths, the lockdowns, the cuts to education, the hospital and surgery backlogs, the housing crisis and how he's planning to cut millions in student loans and health care while building a highway that'll destroy farmland needed to keep our food supply chain shorter and more affordable but...everyone just shrugged? People genuinely believe that Doug Ford is doing an okay job because our Conservative owned media doesn't call him out on anything, and with Del Duca and Horwath hardly inspiring any kind of enthusiasm I guess I shouldn't be surprised
I also found out about how truly evil and money driven my local MPP is
I also found out about how truly evil and money driven my local MPP is
So this happened last week.
Conservative MPs Laugh at Statistic Showing One-in-Four Canadians Can’t Afford Groceries - The Maple (5 min read)
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In other news Trudeau is considering giving $300 million to a shipyard owned by one of the richest families in Canada.
The Irving family Halifax shipyard won a multi-billion dollar program in 2011 to construct the country’s new fleets of warships - on the condition that the yard had the capability to build the vessels and taxpayers wouldn’t need to contribute funding to outfit facilities for the task.
Would be nice if the Trudeau liberals could hold them accountable to their agreement and not give them millions in taxpayer $$!
Conservative MPs Laugh at Statistic Showing One-in-Four Canadians Can’t Afford Groceries - The Maple (5 min read)
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In other news Trudeau is considering giving $300 million to a shipyard owned by one of the richest families in Canada.
The Irving family Halifax shipyard won a multi-billion dollar program in 2011 to construct the country’s new fleets of warships - on the condition that the yard had the capability to build the vessels and taxpayers wouldn’t need to contribute funding to outfit facilities for the task.
Would be nice if the Trudeau liberals could hold them accountable to their agreement and not give them millions in taxpayer $$!
I'm so angry and anxious about this. People who have been paying attention could see that he's been a catalyst for our hospital backlogs and wait times - he's been trying to normalize this since 2020 so that he could make healthcare a bigger issue and convince people that privatization is the way to go. It's one thing to have private hospitals and health care services but another to use our tax money and the wages of our exhausted health care workers to pay to set them up, not to mention the $8 billion that the Trudeau government gave the province for Covid relief that has not been accounted for. He's also been suing nurses using our tax dollars yet nobody seems to care or want to talk about this
Privatization and the reducing of OHIP already started last year with certain blood tests and scans now costing money and the government is no longer paying doctors for phone/virtual doctor appointments so that vulnerable and immunocompromised people have to sit in waiting rooms full of sick people (another reason why I continue to side eye anyone not wearing masks). No one seemed to care that the government can now ship seniors to any nursing home in the province without factoring in where their family lives. Like, I'm glad my grandparents passed away when they did so that we wouldn't have to drive hours to visit them. I'm frustrated that this isn't getting the outrage it deserves but I guess I shouldn't be surprised based on how apathetic the province has been about any political decision making. So many people are still stuck on Kathleen Wynne. I really hope our other political leaders do everything possible to halt Ford's plans but they all seem to be satisfied with some sternly worded tweets and press conferences; meanwhile Jagmeet continues to blame the federal government and purposely confusing people about provincial/federal jurisdictions
Privatization and the reducing of OHIP already started last year with certain blood tests and scans now costing money and the government is no longer paying doctors for phone/virtual doctor appointments so that vulnerable and immunocompromised people have to sit in waiting rooms full of sick people (another reason why I continue to side eye anyone not wearing masks). No one seemed to care that the government can now ship seniors to any nursing home in the province without factoring in where their family lives. Like, I'm glad my grandparents passed away when they did so that we wouldn't have to drive hours to visit them. I'm frustrated that this isn't getting the outrage it deserves but I guess I shouldn't be surprised based on how apathetic the province has been about any political decision making. So many people are still stuck on Kathleen Wynne. I really hope our other political leaders do everything possible to halt Ford's plans but they all seem to be satisfied with some sternly worded tweets and press conferences; meanwhile Jagmeet continues to blame the federal government and purposely confusing people about provincial/federal jurisdictions
Fucking hell Canadians of Popjustice, and especially to you @enhanced CD, this was a depressing page. I'd be livid if I were in Ontario. In Idaho this kind of bullshit is just the way things work, but for a place like Ontario to have its healthcare system systematically destructed by the government is shocking.
I should learn more. What the hell is up with all these Western countries having spineless, genuflecting oppositions??? (I know, it's capitalism and working as intended, but one can hope something emerges worth fighting with.)
I should learn more. What the hell is up with all these Western countries having spineless, genuflecting oppositions??? (I know, it's capitalism and working as intended, but one can hope something emerges worth fighting with.)