New roof time at the Family Cottage w/
@StoreFrontExp
and my Brother-in-Law. 3rd time I've done this since I was a teenager. I'm 63 now. Hopefully the last time!
Read this over and and watch this clip - this is the Premier of Ontario, who's driven the Healthcare system in Ontario into the ground, JOKING about people having to go to a Veterinary Clinic to get an MRI. This man & his party is a joke - are you going to elect him a 3rd time?
Doug Ford thinks it’s funny that our health care system is struggling. He jokingly suggests people can visit an animal hospital to get an MRI.
What a disgraceful leader and absolute shambles of a man.
#NeverVoteConservative
#WomenAgainstDougFord
@1MikeMorris
You saw it there. You see it on Twitter. You see it in comments sections. This outrageous visceral hate for the PM. Where does this come from? Look I don't like
#DougFord
in the least. He's an absolutely terrible Premier but I'm not flying a "F'K FORD" flag on my front lawn!!
@ColinDMello
Colin hopefully you will be asking Sam Oosterhoff, "Why would you make such an offensive & juvenile comment about people of Italian descent in the Legislature" or to
#DougFord
"Premier - is it OK for your MPP's to make offensive remarks about immigrants in the legislature"? Thx
@fordnation
Doug - Your own Auditor said you UNDER spent on
#Healthcare
for the past two years during the pandemic by about $2.7 billion, & there is still this issue of an unaccounted for $4billion from the Federal Govt FOR
#Covid
relief - yet you are asking for more for Healthcare - Why?
Wow! I've been blocked by my own MPP! I think I have figured out now what "For the People" means. I'm not one of those, "People"! 😀
#NewmarketAurora
#Onpoli
@ColinDMello
So let me get this straight. We are in a Global Pandemic. Healthcare system at the brink or broken. Education system also really suffering. All sorts of other needs going unmet and the
#DougFord
Gov't purposely UNDER spent and asked the Fed for MORE $. 🤦♂️
@fordnation
I'm pleading with Premier Ford to immediately & completely shut down all truly non-essential manufacturing, warehouses, & distribution centers in Ontario, for 2 weeks & vaccinate all those workers right away, just as the Science Advisory Table told him to do!
#DougFord
#onpoli
Ontario Voters - do you like being relentlessly lied, to and played by
#dougford
? Serious question! Because that's EXACTLY what's going on!!
#onpoli
#DougFord
#ONpoli
Doug Ford 2018: “we’re focused on reducing the size and cost of government.”
Doug Ford 2024: “me and my 36 Cabinet Ministers are adding $130 Billion in debt and the budget went up over $60 Billion per year.”
@iamdavidmiller
@TomPark1n
It's shocking and upsetting quite frankly the way the media has treated and continues to treat Conservative politicians like Doug Ford and John Tory with kid gloves. Imagine if Trudeau pulled something like Doug's complete ditching of fundamental democracy like he did today??
@ThisCrazyTrain
@JulieMDPanneton
@JustinTrudeau
I'll fully admit that somethings the PM has done in the past have been questionable, but here, with the pandemic response, from the start, right through today, he has be forthwith, firm, unwavering, and progressive. Other politicians should have been taking notes today!
So
#DougFord
says things are "1000% better" in Ontario! First 3 things I hear on
@Metromorning
are: 1) Foodbank use is massively up. 2) LTC Inspections are way down (15% of what was promised) 3) There's still an acute shortage of nurses! This is a 1000% better Ontario?
#onpoli
@jackhauen
It's clear to me that
#DougFord
has no idea how grossly offensive his comments were yesterday, made in the posh confines of the Empire Club!
@TO_Resident
Congratulations Ontario! We are only a few months into the 2nd
#DougFord
term, but you voted for the most spectacularly incompentant, dishonest, hypocritical, and corrupt Gov't of all time in Ontario. In 3 1/2 years, think more carefully of who you vote for!
@ConsumerSOS
"Support all Canadians" . . . No, the vast majority of Canadians want you to go home, and stop disrupting the lives and livelihoods of other Canadians.
@TDotResident
Fantastic follow-up by
@PasiekaOnPol
- "That was very COLORFUL Premier, but it did not answer the question" - 100% to that! Thank you Clara. Other Queens Park media take note!
If you are a runner, cyclist or triathlete and dealing with a race/event cancellation/postponement, please don't come onto social media & complain/whine. Also, be KIND to Race Directors - many of these races/events are SMALL businesses & so are their suppliers!
#COVID19
What does it say when
#DougFord
and key Ministers in his Gov't refuse or ignore the regular offers to appear on
@metromorning
? Thank you to
@MaritStiles
for being on there this morning explaining what a sham this
#OntarioPlace
& Science Center proposal is! cc
@normsworld
This is disturbing to say the least. In particular, the laughter in the audience, after this man threatens to seriously injury or kill cyclists, that happen to be in is way when he's driving! This is OK? It's deranged, & potentially criminal is what it is!! cc
@MayorOliviaChow
Our letter to
@stephenholyday
calling on him to publicly denounce anti-cyclist violence incited by his latest cycling network town hall. Should any cyclist be targeted & injured following this event in Etobicoke, blame may fall at your feet
#BikeTO
:
@DFisman
We saw this happening elsewhere. We knew it would happen here. But we kept lowering restrictions and "Opening Up". Did the key decision makers think that Canada was different? What would lead them to that conclusion?
@TheJasonPugh
@PierrePoilievre
So let the record show PP did not answer the question. Riffed/deflected to generalities, & rightly shifted blame on Education/Healthcare to the Provinces, which are being disastrously run for the most part CONSERVATIVE Gov'ts. Yet - we want to elect him as PM? 🤦♂️
@BonnieCrombie
Bonnie - Take the time to drive up the dead ends of Bathurst & Yonge Streets north of Queensville Sideroad. The
#BradfordByass
is going to plow through a ridiculous amount of sensitive wetlands, marsh, forest and farmland. See for your own eyes!
@TDotResident
Is this why Doug hid behind some Parliamentary Privilege and refused to appear before the Emergency Act Inquiry? Why is that literally EVERYTHING Doug does is connected somehow to the dark murky corners of our society?
@WendyGoodes
@OntarioPCCaucus
What do you expect from MPP's who did not attend All-Canidates Debates and avoided any questions from the media in the last election. Yet keep going on and on about how "accountable and transparent" they are. Ontario - you are being played REALLY badly! 🤦♂️
@fordnation
Doug - did the All Star Comms Team check in with the OPP about this? I see summer images but its winter ice fishing season. It's been so warm and ice so bad, all winter OPP have been advising NO ONE to venture out onto any ice!! 🤦♂️
@KingaSurmaMPP
Minister - According to the Auditor General's Report regarding the
#OntarioPlace
Proposal you have misled & lied to the people of Ontario. You've boasted/bragged, about it & used incorrect, & inaccurate data, while having the gall to tell us it was all, "Triple Checked"!
#onpoli
@FlavioVolpe1
Flavio - I had work in the City over last weekend.
@GOtransit
GO Train in from Aurora. Brought my bike with me. Stayed at The Chelsea Inn - work was over near CNE, Sat/Sun. Biked everywhere. A lot of streets grid-locked - not a concern for me. Sailed right along!
@TDotResident
I seriously wonder how, a Trudeau/Chow can sit down at a table with Doug Ford, look across & take him seriously. "So, Doug, when you nearly bankrupted Deco labels, what did you do?" or "Doug - how is it you were able to evade the Police when EVERYONE knew U were dealing drugs?"
@TO_Resident
@CarymaRules
@Tammyocanada
This is beyond ridiculous. I work in the
#LiveEvents
business. The NCC rules with an IRON fist anything that goes on in Ottawa - you can't gather more than 10 people for ANYTHING, on a sidewalk without approval & a permit from the NCC. How is this allowed to be going on?
On greater booze availability in Ontario: 1) Technically I'm not opposed to this but 2) Why is the
#dougford
Gov't not putting this level of effort & huge $ into
#healthcare
,
#education
, or homelessness? 3) Carefully note the timing, & the influence this will have on voters!
Thank you
@DFisman
for bringing this to my attention. More info here on Not One Seat - with a solid plan to defeat Doug Ford If you want to see the end of Doug, Sign Up NOW! cc
@notoneseat
#onpoli
@ColinDMello
The Federal Gov't better be asking for a FULL, down to the last dollar accounting and audit of all of this money and how it's being spent! I'm not sure how you can sit down at the table with
#DougFord
and take him seriously?? He's squandered $billions so far!
#onpoli
#cdnpoli
@ColinDMello
Colin - What is really unfortunate and a bit scary, here is that it's clear from what,
#DougFord
has said, again, that he's NOT getting it AT ALL! He's unfit for Public Office of any kind with this behaviour!
@martynschmoll
I'm predicting a very rough transition. The big challenge is the vast majority of drivers think that all driving is "free" - totally unknowing or oblivious to the huge subsidization behind the scenes.
@JayJGoldberg
@oliviachow
Jay - will you be calling out
#DougFord
for giving Mark Saunders $171,000 for doing NOTHING? Or how about the countless other absurd and wasteful things and terrible economic moves Doug has made? Look forward to hearing back!
When you Elect a Ford to Public Office - this is what you get. This murky, dark, shady cast of characters, who are now DIRECTLY involved in what's going on. It also uncovers one of
#DougFord
's biggest lies, "I don't do all these secret backroom deals like the Liberals do" - DF 🤦♂️
@ItsDeanBlundell
No one seems to care or ask why, a man, who formally dealed in the drug trade, and who's own family has been ravaged, and hugely negatively impacted by drugs/alcohol addiction, would so relentlessly push & promote booze consumption?? 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤔
@mynamesnotgordy
@JulieMDPanneton
@ColinDMello
As always with the Fords, it's not individual acts, or what was said, it's the consistent patterns of behavior over time, which in this case is Doug's lifelong avoidance of responsibility for anything!
Just listened to another disturbing story on
@metromorning
Truck Driver hit a cyclist. She LOST HER RIGHT LEG. Glitch in
@TorontoPolice
Report - Charges against eventually DROPPED! Apparently cases like this are common. What is going on??
@TheBikingLawyer
@MayorOliviaChow
@CharliePinkerto
@Thetrilliumca
Owe to have been a fly-on-the-wall in those secret backroom meetings between Robert Hanea from Therme & Doug I-Never-Do-Secret-Backroom-Deals Ford. Both men, easily proven relentless liars & braggarts! Each trying to out boast & brag the other! You've been played badly Ontario!
@fordnation
Doug - you said, "I never do backroom deals" but this
@pressprogress
story about you, Fran Klees and others, including connections to Russian $, looks like a BIG backroom deal. Can you please address this. What was it all about? Thank you.
#OntarioVotes
@NanaSewDear
@realDonaldTrump
It's a complicated issue, which unfortunately
#Trump
has wrongfully, overly simplified & in the process, smeared and misrepresented people with wrong information. In other words - he has no idea what he's talking about!
@RichardCityNews
Richard you and ALL Reporters should be pounding away at
#DougFord
about accountability. Why? Here's your answer - "We will bring accountability and transparency back to the Gov't of Ontario" - Doug Ford, Election Night 2018
@ItsDeanBlundell
Important and serious question - how much influence have family members (like this) been on
#DougFord
's decision making? Example - the Jan 17th deadline to start lifting vaccine mandates, have given all the deniers/anti-vaxxers like Doug's daughter an out!!
#onpoli
@ColinDMello
"We will bring accountability and transparency back to the Gov't of Ontario" -
#dougford
, Election Night 2018! How's Doug doing with that or was this just another giant lie?
@fordnation
@VictorFedeli
.
@4fathersbrewing
- serious question for you, why would you invite in and pose with a Premier who has repeatedly, brazenly lied to the people of Ontario? Who's plundering the greenbelt and farmland (maybe where your hops are grown??) Are you OK with that? 🤦
@Skorpeo
@ALJWS
@andyharnik
@realDonaldTrump
@AP
"Trump is a good Christian"? Really? - The guy who was carrying on affairs with two different women at roughly the same time, shortly after Trump and his wife had a son? Wow!
@ColinDMello
So to be clear on all this - a Gov't that was elected by just EIGHTEEN PERCENT of the registered voters in Ontario is, is dumping in the garbage and casting aside the most fundamental & basic foundation of Democracy - that a majority should rule!!
#DougFord
#onpoli
@ItsDeanBlundell
FWIW - I'm 100% with the guy in the blue jacket. It could be me on the street, out side my condo, trying to explain to these folks, that, while we hear the frustration and the anger, it's misdirected & misguided. Perhaps learn how our Federation works. It's NOT that complicated.
A slap on the wrist for a Driver who admitted in Court to being distracted before hitting and killing a cyclist in Hamilton in 2022. I'm completely exhausted with outrage over this kind of thing! The mayhem on roads just carry's on! cc
@TheBikingLawyer
@VaughanPappy
@AndrewScheer
I'm a pretty serious endurance sports athlete. How is it I can get through a whole year, & never need to buy water in a plastic bottle from a shop? I fill up for whatever I need at a faucet with a reusable bottle. But for Conservatives - the world is ending!! Why?
@GeorgeTakei
How does this happen? How did we get here? How can a person look at a sound, rational, factually correct side of an issue, but choose, the unsound, irrational and factually wrong side?
@ColinDMello
So we just had the Auditor General's report confirm that
@KingaSurmaMPP
lied & misled the people of Ontario, now the Minister's standing at a microphone & seems to have NO IDEA what's going on with this Project & flip-flopping all over the place. CALL THEM OUT, Colin. Thank you!
Wow! This little scary ditty was buried deep in todays Auditor General's Report. Last year a record number of people, (Drivers, Pedestrians & Cyclists) - 400+ died on the roads of Ont.! Confirmed - Ont. Drivers now LESS skilled! 🤦 cc
@TheBikingLawyer
@biketo
@BicycleMayorTO
Ontario's acting auditor general says the province's decision to remove three-point turns, parallel parking and other requirements from G class driving tests was done without a full review and may have impacted road safety.
@ColinDMello
Thank you, Colin for saying this, but you need to do more. Start calling this Premier and this Gov't out for the incompetency, the misinformation, and the lies, and STOP covering these "Press Conferences" - they are CAMPAIGN Events!
@TO_Resident
@Travisdhanraj
@OntarioPCParty
Travis - There's your Head Line. "Ford Gov't Launches Massive Disinformation Campaign Using False Information, After Federal Gov't Over-Delivers on Q1 Vaxx Delivery". Go!
@gordperks
Gord - in the course of my time living in and around the City of Toronto, Like most people, I've probably had to pay a few hundred dollars in parking fines. Since you seem to be throwing out completely Parking Enforcement now, can I get that money back retroactively? 🤦♂️😃
Full disclosure - I am completely against the building of
#hwy413
. But here's a great illustration of how spectacularly incompetent the
#dougford
Gov't is - even for a Pet-Project if theirs, it's Doug & Co. dragging their feet, but publically blaming others!! 🤦♂️
It is worth noting that it has been three years since the feds subjected Highway 413 to an impact assessment, and Ontario still has not filed the initial report needed to actually start the review process
@CBCKatie
@CBCTheNational
Complain, rant and rave, but then asked what YOUR plan is to really solve the problem. Alone, with no help, and no teleprompter -
@fordnation
has nothing to say or just makes something up!
This is a REALLY bad day! I hope that this is NOT true. The trajectory that the GTA is on right now with an almost total focus on Car Dependant Suburban Sprawl growth, is wrong. It's UNSUSTAINABLE.
#Hwy413
will commit us to more of this for the next 50+years! 🤦😕
@ColinDMello
So who are we going to believe? The Auditor General who is responsible for being neutral, unbiased, detailed, fact based, and verified in her reporting, or
#DougFord
, a lifelong pathological liar? You voted for this Ontario! WAKE UP!
@imgrund
@Sflecce
Ryan - the key question is, what did
@Sflecce
know back then about where we were headed? The PUBLIC modeling had predicted we be where we are. Surely he had access to even more detailed and better data. Did he just ignore all this?
@CP24
Because of past lies and misleading information from this Minister, you will need to fully verify that 50,000 number CP24. Why would you publish this before doing that? Please verify and report back. Thank you.
@fordnation
Doug - during your time as Premier, Food Bank usage in Ontario has reached an all-time high. It's nearly DOUBLED in your time in Gov't! So why a few weeks ago did you claim, everything in Ontario is, "1000% better"?
#DougFord
#onpoli
#FoodSecurity
#foodbanks
@ColinDMello
Keep going, Colin and the media. Remember - "We are going to bring accountability and transparency back to the Gov't of Ontario" -
#DougFord
, 2018!
#onpoli
@CharliePinkerto
"Paul Calandra falsely claimed"? Charlie - it's time to cut out the nice stuff and takes the gloves off. "Paul Calandra lied when he . . ." - there fixed it for you! Seriously. This Gov't is piece by piece, throwing the Province of Ontario in the garbage can!
@TDotResident
$4 billion from the Feds for Covid Assistance still unaccounted for. Sitting on a $22 Billion surplus. While they CUT BACK on Healthcare, Education and other Social Services. WAKE UP Ontario you are being played badly!
@ColinDMello
@reggcohn
As usual -
#dougford
, sharing wrong and misleading numbers and lying. Things are WORSE under Doug's leadership! Fact!
@TDotResident
has been fact-checking this regularly and calling Doug out on these bogus job numbers!
#ONpoli
@mynamesnotgordy
I would like to see a full accounting of the $billions that the Federal Gov't has sent
#DougFord
's way. I'm urging the Federal Health Minister
@markhollandlib
and the Prime Minister,
@JustinTrudeau
to look into this. I'm 100% serious about it. Healthcare in ON is in crisis!
@TO_Resident
@fordnation
@Raptors
Doug didn't start at the bottom - he came from a very successful family, inherited a bunch of money from his father and a thriving business! He's allegedly squandered the money, and run the Deco business nearly into the ground!
@mbonsma
Another data-point in the Grand Conspiracy that it's NEVER motorists fault. It's so deeply entrenched that even when CLEARLY it is motorists fault, they automatically blame others! 🤦♂️😔
@ColinDMello
Colin - where various law enforcement agencies/police forces consulted on this? How do they feel about this? The no replacement stickers has apparently been a complete fiasco. Reports are of over 1million drivers driving around with lapsed licenses!
@fordnation
Doug - this is the problem, when you reach this level, and you want people to believe, you - but you have this track-record of lying, dishonesty and deceit stretching back to when you were a City of Toronto Councillor! Who are we to believe?
@fordnation
Doug - why are you misleading people with this. It's NOT because of ANY thing you have done! International oil prices are down substantially - that's the reason! Why don't you just be honest and straight with people? cc
@celliottability
#Onpoli
@TO_Resident
BIG problem in Ontario.
#DougFord
says anything - "A free car for everyone!" - and that's the tweet, headline and key quote in a story from most of the Queens Park Reporters & Media Outlets. NO verification. NO fact check! It's a big reason why Doug is Premier!
#onpoli
@LauraBabcock
Have you been to an airport recently. The vast majority of people seem to have arrived at the airport coming directly from the Gym, The Beach or the Bedroom! 🤦
@5thLineLegend
@maritstiles
A running race in Hamilton in December that had 1000 entrants was not given a permit, but it was OK for 23,000+ to gather yesterday for the Grey Cup! Few things with this make any sense! And you wonder why so many have completely disengaged and pay no attention?
@nickjboisvert
For
@celliottability
& others look across the parking lot from Andrew's Convenience (where I took this picture) in Aurora. There's a
@sobeys
100m away. They ask everyone buying beer/wine there for ID - even 58 year old me! No illegal activity there!
#onpoli
#beer
@CFifeKW
You know what's tiring and offensive
@RobinMartinPC
- listening to the Premier and Ministers of the Crown, brazenly lie to the people of Ontario, REPEATEDLY and think so little of the Canadian Constitution, the Charter of Rights, and democracy itself! THATS offensive! 😧
@l_stone
@brianlilley
@ColinDMello
Laura - please on behalf of Ontarians, ask
#DougFord
the hard questions about this. Why this timing? Why has he dithered for so long? What on earth has he been doing for the last month? DO NOT just retweet whatever Doug says - it's often wrong/inaccurate/a-lie. Thank U!
#onpoli
@paulcshipley
@ddale8
Typical
#Trump
: Ignores the question. Starts incoherently talking about completely irrelevant topics. And as always ends up talking about himself - boasting and bragging away. The pattern is always the same! This is NOT leadership!
@GailVazOxlade
The dirty secret the no one ever seems to talk about is the last 2+ years have been the best years ever for the 1% - 2%. They've made more money & accumulated more wealth than in ANY 3 year period of time in history. It's a STAGGERING amount. But, "were all in this together"!! 🤦
@ColinDMello
Great pushback today, Colin. Well done. Keep at it. But remember THE QUESTION - Premier why have you repeatedly, brazenly lied to the people of Ontario?"
#DougFord
#onpoli
@ItsDeanBlundell
But Dean, have U ever noticed that almost EVERY time
#DougFord
is publicly at a microphone, he goes on & on & on about how he's working "my backside off 24/7". If we know anything about the Fords, the more times they repeat something, the greater likely hood it's a brazen lie!
@davidaxelrod
Shifts immediately to talking about himself. Boasts and brags about who he knows. Never answers the question. All in all - complete incoherence. Typical
#trump
response!