Ontario’s “A Plan for Fair Workplaces and Better Jobs” (AKA Bill 148)
legislates leave for domestic abuse survivors, provides for 10 days of
paid emergency leave, three weeks paid vacation after five years’
employment, and a ban on employers requiring their employees to wear
high heels.
The Retail Council of Canada and the Ontario Chamber of Commerce have joined forces to lobby Ontario premier Doug Ford (previously),
a laughable trumplefuck elected on promises to lower the cost of beer
to $1 and to eliminate mentions of homosexuality from the provincial
sex-ed curriculum (his dead brother, Rob, disgraced the province when,
as Mayor of Toronto, he embarked on a series of drug-fueled, racist,
misogynist escapades).
Ontario businesses are riding high, enjoying record profits and
luxuriating in the recent news that Ford had killed the province’s $15
minimum wage.
Ontario has a new environment minister with a background in gambling, an energy minister who has taken on Indigenous affairs and no one in cabinet whose main job will be tackling immigration.
These are among some of the details of the first cabinet in Ontario Progressive Conservative Premier Doug Ford’s new government.
Ford eliminated or altered some of the ministries of the former Liberal government, reducing the size of cabinet to 21 from 29 and signalling some changed priorities by renaming and merging some responsibilities. One example is the elimination of the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration.
The changes signal the initial steps the Ford government is taking to reduce the cost and size of government, as the Tories promised to do in the last election.
Opposition parties were less than enthusiastic about the government’s new look, criticizing the premier for merging Indigenous affairs with energy, mines and northern affairs; adding Francophone affairs to the attorney general’s portfolio; and replacing the Ministry of the Status of Women with “women’s issues” responsibilities in another portfolio.
Rod Phillips was named minister of the environment, conservation and parks. He is the former chair of Postmedia and former president and CEO of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation. His new position is also includes a subtle change that removes the words “climate change” from its title.
He merged Indigenous affairs with natural resource extraction. That’s not even tone-deaf; it’s just a forthright declaration of intent.
Together with his multiple campaign contributions from overseas fascists, it’s starting to look like Doug Ford might be a little like Trump in more ways than one.
Doug Ford, who led the Progressive Conservatives to a resounding majority win in the Ontario election, is vowing to scrap the comprehensive sexual-education curriculum as soon as he can.
“I’ll sit down with our new cabinet and with the minister of education, discuss that with them,” he told reporters the day after his victory. “But I can tell you one thing, we’re repealing it. And I’ll tell you another thing, we keep our promises.”
I think this is really the worst part of Kathleen Wynne helping this asshole win. He’s going to do tons of damage to young people in the LGBT community with his stone age thinking, but she had no problem throwing every last one of them under the bus. I can’t think of a worse example of fuck you got mine, and if she has the nerve to show up to any pride events, she owes every young person there an apology.
Woah woah I didn’t hear about this- in what way exactly did she help him win?
Ontario PC leadership candidate Doug Ford recently accepted endorsements from a pair of controversial pastors with a history of preaching hate.
Charles McVety and Paul Melnichuk, two pastors with a well-documented track record promoting homophobia and anti-Semitism, are singing Ford’s praises as he works to lock-down the support of Ontario’s social conservative fringe.
McVety, president of the Canada Christian College and the far-right Institute for Canadian Values, called on his followers to buy PC memberships and cast votes for Ford – someone he describes as a “faithful man.”
“The leadership will be won by just a few thousand votes,” McVety told his Facebook followers this week. “You and your friends can make a difference as we see our land healed.”
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