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Drug Fraud's grift continues.
Makes me wonder how Ontarians feel about how he wastes their tax dollars.
Angry and powerless against the people who appreciate this waste. He is not good for our province, and yet... We can't get rid of him. Would be nice to have the other parties have someone "populous" enough to beat him, sadly we don't have anyone that can stand against him. I do my part, but I am merely a single voter who never missed an election.
Edit: The liberals have wasted a lot of money as well in this province, and NoOnE wAnTs ThE NDP cAuSe "~~Ray~~ Rae Days"... ffs
Ray days?
Bob Rae was ONDP leader premier of Ontario during a recession.
Knowing recessions don’t last forever he saw that mass layoffs followed by mass hirings would cost the province a lot of money so instead he required all provincial employees take 12 unpaid days off a year to ensure everyone kept their jobs.
These days off were called Rae Days by the media and the global recession that was already underway got blamed on it.
It's so weird to me what sticks with voters and what doesn't.
Someone making an unpopular choice during a bad time: blemished for decades.
Someone constantly acting against the interests of voters, one scandal after another: that's fine.
Ontario keeps voting him in for some reason, we had a chance to get rid of him when he called an emergency election shortly after handing out tax rebate cheques, i guess his little bribe worked.
Not great. I try to ignore what's happening since there's SFA I can do about it until the next election. Each election I vote against the conservatives and yet, this is what we get. I hope someone is happy about it. That's not me, but I hope someone is.
I don't delude myself into thinking that it would be significant better with the liberals (or the NDP for that matter)... It might be less bad, but I certainly don't think it would be good by any stretch of the imagination.
Prices still rise, wages are still stagnant, business owners and shareholders get rich while everyone else gets poor. Same as it ever was.
I think this was the party, so it's their donors footing the bill not the taxpayer.
Not that that makes Ford a responsible public servant or anything.
That politics money seems endless. The bottom will fall out sooner or later I guess.