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Who will you believe? People being told by blood labs "those tests are no longer being covered by the government" (cont.)

Here's why OHIP and LifeLabs are trending in Ontario now blogto.com/city/2022/05/o…
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(cont.) & having to pay for the same tests they never had to before or what lying #DougFord & his health ministry minions are claiming? Ford IS privatizing health care & it'll cost YOU big bucks.
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Is it safe to say so much of what we have come to love (and hate) about Ontario will be forever changed on Thursday night?
As a Dad of young children, & teacher, I'm struggling with what a PC majority might mean for school communities, the environment, and our health care system.
I have knocked on doors, made phone calls and talked with friends and neighbours. I am voting with a few on Thursday in order to help get out the vote, but I'm afraid it won't be enough.
At this time, I really think the only chance we have of stopping Ford and his PCs is to swallow our preferred party pride, check our hearts, and vote for the candidate most likely to defeat the PC candidate, riding by riding.
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In a vindictive salvo against former Toronto city council colleagues, (no other city was targeted) Ford cuts wards from 47 to 25 in Aug 2018, four and a half months into the municipal election campaign ending in November; Ford also cancelled planned regional chair elections.../2
...in Peel and York, thwarting the ambitions of his political foes, Brampton mayor Patrick Brown and Liberal leader Steven Del Duca;

Toronto sued, and the courts hurriedly ruled Sept 10 that Ford’s gerrymandering of political districts was undemocratic. So Ford accused the.../3
...courts of being undemocratic for upholding the constitution, threatening to invoke the Charter's last resort notwithstanding clause;

Sept 18, 2018, days after learning of the Superior Court loss, Ford complained to reporters that a "democratically elected government" is.../4
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A 🧵about additional OHIP cuts…this is my father’s insulin, currently covered by OHIP which we are very grateful for. /1 #VoteFordOutJune2 #OntarioVotes
These are the needles to deliver the insulin, no longer covered by OHIP. /2
One does not work without the other. /3
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In a 2016 interview, Ford defended Donald Trump’s “grab her by the pussy” comments and claimed women care more about taxes than they do about sexual assault;

Seeking to gain the support of social conservatives during the 2018 PC leadership campaign, Ford promised to bring in../2
...abortion consent laws that would give parents the power to block a young woman’s access to the medical procedure;

Ford said he would welcome MPPs tabling the legislation, even though such a statute would likely be unconstitutional with the enshrinement of section 7.../3
...security of the person rights in the Charter;

The Liberals' Bill 163, the Protecting a Woman’s Right to Access Abortion Services Act, passed in late 2017, created safe zones to prevent anti-abortion protesters from confronting and harassing patients entering or exiting.../4
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#DougFord & his health minister have said private healthcare is coming to #Ontario. That means U.S. prices that bankrupt tens of thousands of people.

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Video U.S. Medical Prices, Part 1
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Even if #DougFord privatizes only with 2-tier healthcare, OHIP will have to make huge increases to its maximum fee schedules, otherwise there'll be a (cont.)

Video U.S. Medical Prices Part 2
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(cont.) mass exodus of doctors to the privatized system where they'd get paid much more. No problem, you'll get health insurance. Oh yeah? Here's what Americans paid in 2020 under Obamacare. Yikes!
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Ford Nation Brampton candidate Simmer Sandhu quits during the 2018 campaign after the alleged theft of 60,000 Hwy 407 ETR customers’ personal data ends up in the hands of one (or more) Tory candidates to aid in campaigning and fundraising. Police lay charges in July 2020; /2
Meanwhile, charges against the former Highway 407 employee that led to the resignation of Sandhu were dropped in Mar 2022;

The leaders of the Liberals and NDP call for the police and Elections Ontario to investigate the alleged data theft, while then Leader DoFo resorted to.../3
.. his usual whiny deflection technique: "This goes back to Patrick Brown," slithered Ford. "You want to get answers on this, Patrick Brown was the leader under this whole group of people." Ford then claimed he was elected to" - 🥁 roll – "clean up the mess in the party; /4
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King RAT distributed almost 175,000 kits to private schools (there are only 408 in the entire province) exceeding the total that went to paramedics (69K), shelters (31K), daycare centres (36K) and jails (15K), combined;

While the immunocompromised scrambled for tests in ../2
..wintertime lineups, Ford opened a pipeline for friends and allies;

Only 20% of the 20.7M taxpayer-paid kits were supplied to Covid hotspots, even as Ford touted them as "game-changers" when he launched the RAT program in the fall of 2020;

In the first 10 months of the ../3
...kit distribution, two companies received more than a third of all tests sent to industry, Toyota (109K) and Linamar (102K), key players in the auto trade. Linamar's CEO is a former member of Ontario's vaccine task force;

Mirroring the Hunger Games rush for vaccines in .../4
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Ford had an option to mitigate the environmental impact of blasting the controversial 4- to 6-lane, multi-billion dollar Hwy 413 through the Greenbelt, but instead stunned environmental groups by choosing a route across the headwaters of the Humber River and through the.../2
..Nashville Conservation Reserve, the last contiguous Greenbelt forest in Vaughan;

The belligerent Ford plans to bulldoze the 68.2-km, $7.5B to $10B Hwy 413/Bradford Bypass through the Greenbelt, contrary to expert advice and public opinion;

Frank Graves' EKOS firm showed.../3
..74% of 905'ers oppose Hwy 413 in a Dec 2021 poll. Updated May 2022, 48% of Ontarians oppose the project, while only 23% support it;

The Toronto Star reported April 18, 2022 that a less ecologically destructive alignment was rejected because it would have cut a 170-metre.../4
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"No comment” was expected and the Yes-Man didn't disappoint as King Doug of Ford Nation and the residents of Ottawa and Toronto faced the spectre of thousands of motorcycles and trucks belching fumes on Parliament Hill and at 14 different gathering points in Toronto on Apr 29../2
...30, 2022;

It was feared the so-called “Rolling Thunder” motorcycle convoy of veterans (who have never served) would attack Ottawa in a copycat demonstration of the 26-day horror show (1/29 to 2/23) that illegally camped out on 20 downtown blocks in late January through.../3
...to mid-February – but the confused conductor of the Yes Express, DoFo, chose to lie low anyway;

Rolling Thunder organizers had threatened to be even louder than the honking of the initial occupation, but residents of the 2 cities were adamant that a second takeover be.../4
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Privatized or 2-tier healthcare inevitably leads to doctors leaving public sector for greater income, (cont.)

Why private, for-profit health care is a terrible idea @TC_Africa theconversation.com/why-private-fo…
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(cont.) forcing the public system to raise maximum fee schedules to compete for doctors. Finding a family doctor in the public sector will become even more difficult.
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Education minister Lecce opts for a #JewHate hashtag in a stunningly offensive Feb 22, 2022 tweet intended to call out anti-Semitism that likely played well in certain area codes;

Ford was a staff pundit on Rebel TV, the Christofascist-friendly, Fox News clone that at the../2
..time employed Postmedia's Brian Lilley and Gavin McInnes, founder of the hate group, the "Proud Boys";

Heather Mallick cites "Lassitude, mendacity and honed incompetence," as hallmarks of the Ford government in a Jan 17, 2022 column for the Toronto Star;

Postmedia's.../3
..Ottawa Citizen breaks ranks with its libertarian media colleagues in an Apr 2, 2022 editorial, demanding Ford, Elliott and Moore resurrect Covid mandates and stop "harping on about living with Covid and returning to normal";

The Toronto Star's Bruce Arthur joins in on../5
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Feb 15, 2022, the politically motivated Ford declares all Covid measures will end Apr 27/22, timed precisely 5 weeks before the June 2 election, despite dissent from experts in health, education, 2 members of his own Science Table and the emergence of the highly transmissible../2
...Deltacron virus and its BA.2 variant;

Outgoing Science Table Director Dr. Peter Jüni says Ford's latest reopening gambit is premature and not supported by the science. Following in the footsteps of Ford critic Dr. David Fisman, who resigned in August 2021, Jüni announces.../3
..Mar 18 that he plans to step away from the Science Table, only 9 days after Ford’s mandate termination announcement;

With 100,000-plus new Covid cases projected per day in early April based on PCR and wastewater testing, a Kingston, ON Science Table member confirmed Mar 4../4
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With #DougFord's beady eyes laser focused on the back of her head, health minister Christine Elliott confirms that Ford intends to bring in a 2-tier healthcare system. (cont.)

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(cont.)

These are just 4 of the effects of a 2-tier healthcare system:

❌ doctors will abandon the public system for greater private income

❌ provincial plans will be forced to raise maximum (cont.)
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(cont.) fee schedules to stop a mass exodus of doctors from provincial systems

❌ finding a family doctor in the public sector will become virtually impossible

❌ medical bills will cause bankruptcies.
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Seniors count on Canadian healthcare plans to avoid what in the U.S. are bankruptcy-size service fees. As shown in the video, those fees are eye-popping. Privatizing healthcare will (cont.)
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(cont.) bring those exorbitant fees to Canada. Doctors will leave healthcare plans to charge what they want. Even if #DougFord merely brings in a 2-tier system, provincial plans will (cont.)
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(cont.) have to increase schedules of maximum fees to prevent a mass exodus of doctors to the private sector. Finding a family doctor will become even more difficult & wait times will go up.
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Big reason for @notoneseat for #DougFord in #Toronto:

❌ used the Notwithstanding clause to screw city council

❌ and against free speech (see reply to this tweet for link)

cbc.ca/news/canada/to…
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#DougFord used the dreaded notwithstanding clause to overrule the court and pass his undemocratic legislation limiting 3rd party advertising, i.e., free speech

cp24.com/news/ontario-p…
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Make no mistake. #DougFord WILL privatize #healthcare in Ontario. That's why he's desperately keeping his mandate letters secret. They call for privatization! You'll pay what Americans pay for healthcare (shown in video).
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Even with 2-tier healthcare, prices for medical services will skyrocket. Why?

○ 1,000s of doctors will opt out of OHIP & other provincial systems to charge any amount

○ OHIP & other systems will (cont.)
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(cont) increase maximum fee amounts to prevent a mass exodus of doctors from their plans

also

○ with fewer doctors in provincial plans, it'll be even more difficult to find a family doctor

○ rich people will jump the line
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#onpoli #VoteFordOut here are key ridings where you can make a difference by voting strategically to prevent the Doug Ford Conservatives from forming government.
Ajax riding, the strategic vote is Ontario Liberal. Otherwise Ford may win this seat. Don't be fooled by his candidate that was on the school board, they have no interest in public education. NONE. Image
#Brampton East a riding that could MOVE to Doug Ford's PC's if the voters don't support the NDP in this riding. Image
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No masking in Ontario makes complete sense…from a strategic #onpoli perspective…A 🧵

Ford govt strategists learned a lot from the #OttawaOccupation . There is small, but extremely vocal contingent of our population that is living in complete denial…
…of the pandemic. It’s far easier to ignore the pandemic, then it is to exercise the necessary precautions to end it.
In other words, personal sacrifice for community gain is no longer achievable.

“Politicians” around the country are looking to exploit this sentiment…
…and Doug Ford’s handlers are no different. The immediate discussion and subsequent lifting of protocols including masking shortly after the #OttawaOccupation ,sent the message that the Ford govt was listening to the plight…
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Doug Ford & the @OntarioPCParty have been a disaster for #Ontario since day 1. Between now & election day, @fordnation & his lackeys will try to make you forget the harms they've done.

I hope this thread will help you remember some of it when you get to the polls.

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.@fordnation's move to privatize healthcare by rushing the massive “People’s Health Care Act” through legislature without any meaningful consultation, received wide-spread condemnation from medical professional across the province.

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The PHCA has proven to be a nightmare for hospitals and long-term care, and although they have tried to steer the messaging away from privatization, little has changed in their actions as they move to create a two-tiered healthcare system in Ontario.

thestar.com/opinion/contri…
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Twitter wants to #VoteFordOut2022 but that isn't going to make it happen. Most Ontarians aren't even on twitter.

In this thread, we break down our plan to elect a better government. 🧵
Going into this election, Doug Ford is a little weaker than he was in 2018, the Liberals are a little stronger and the NDP is a little weaker. We can expect Ford to lose a few seats, and if we flip a few more we can ensure a minority -- meaning he will have to compromise.
Deep canvassing -- meaningful conversations at the door with lots of listening -- is proven to work.
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It is well after 11AM. Where is @fordnation? @Sflecce? @celliottability? What a buncha losers.
Twenty-three minutes late. “ExpoDENtially.”
So teachers get TWO days notice to switch to Online teaching. Classy.

Everything this clown is saying & doing would have been GREAT six weeks ago.

Also @celliottability looks like crap. Like maybe she’s cluing in that we will NEVER forget her shameful role in this travesty.
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Remember all the sleaze & shady goings on, including fraud, when #DougFord became PC party leader? It’s not just Ford. It’s an entire party of sleaze & those who stay quiet & enable/tacitly condone it in pursuit of power. #VoteThemAllOut2022 #ONpoli #cdnpoli
Then there was Team Ford’s use of trolls & other inauthentic behaviour online, including Jeff Ballingall’s malignant “Ontario Proud”, to smear opponents (esp Wynne) & manipulate the public, all amplified in both social & traditional media. #VoteThemAllOut2022 #ONpoli #cdnpoli
Then came the corruption, backroom deals & cuts right out of the gate. In addition to wealthy private interests dictating policy choices, including choices that led directly to suffering, cruelty & death (#LTCs, poverty etc). #VoteThemAllOut2022 #VoteFordOut2022 #ONpoli #cdnpoli
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🧵The other day @pressprogress published an article (pressprogress.ca/ontario-educat… ) exposing @Sflecce’s private audience with right wing religious lobbying organization & “think tank”, #Cardus. #OntEd #FireLecce #cdnpoli
#Cardus, a registered “charity”, wants taxpayers to fund private for-profit religious schools & a voucher system that has gutted public education in 🇺🇸.

This model would siphon needed funds from public schools & funnel them instead to schools with RW religious ideology #ONpoli
#Cardus revenues = nearly $5M/yr.
Cardus’ donations from other charities increased 17.4 X from 2008-2020. A nearly 2,000% increase in just over a decade. Yet they pay zero in taxes, because “charity”…like lobbying to gut public education in favour of for-profit religious schools
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