Wynne cancels the gas plants to buy votes, which ends up costing a bit over $1billion. There are RCMP investigations, people are fired and she, quite rightly, gets the boot.
Ford directly bribes every citizen of Ontario to the tune of well over $3billion ($200 each x 15.8million citizens + admin and postage costs) and we're all OK with it????? And he just happens to call an early election just as the checks start rolling in. Then there's the $250 million that he spent cancelling the alcohol contracts early for absolutely no good reason. And let's not forget the cancelling of the licence renewal fees (~$1Billion in lost revenue EACH YEAR), plus the licence plate fee refunds that nobody asked for (over $2.2Billion).
By my reckoning the Ford government has so far spent at least $10 Billion of our money on projects that do nothing more than make him look like he's looking out for the average Joe by giving us each $5-600. I'd gladly forgo a $200 check if it meant that the government would spend that $3 billion building and staffing new medical imaging centers, or hiring new family doctors, or repaving our **** roads, or anything else that a government is supposed to do with our money. But no, Doug had to use my hard earned money to make himself look good.
I don't know what the alternative to Sugar Daddy Doug is. The liberals are a mess with no real plan or direction and the NDP are utter loons. The Greens have some solid ideas but also some social policies that make the NDP look restrained. I think that like many people in this thread, I'll just be holding my nose and voting for Dougy unless the liberals can pull their collective heads out of their own ***** in the next few weeks.
And that is a real damn shame.
