Thread by @HeatherMoAndCo

Ongoing lists need to be shared so people never forget the damage #MikeHarris caused. Tunnels for Eglington subway were already excavated. Harris wasted the $750M project & filled the tunnels in at a cost of $40M, setting #TTC & #Toronto back decades in transit. #ONpoli #TOpoli

Then there was the brutality to poor & marginalized people. #MikeHarris used them as scapegoats. Harris’ gov’t hired US firm Arthur Anderson (of Enron fame) to handle welfare cuts. Horror stories ensued, like the case of Kimberly Rogers h/t @monicarooney en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly_…

When #MikeHarris inflicted ‘welfare reform’, average rent in Toronto was over $800/month for a 1 bedroom. Harris cut single welfare to $520/month leading to a housing crisis.
The assault on Ontario’s poor has never recovered from Harris’ damage. #ONpolithestar.com/news/gta/2020/…

#Ipperwash crisis. #MikeHarris & his gov’t escalated tensions in a land dispute with Stoney Point FN. Land that had been expropriated in WWII & was promised to be returned. It wasn’t. SP protesters had a rightful claim & occupied it. Harris said “I want those fucking Indians out”

The next day an OPP sniper shot unarmed protester #DudleyGeorge. George’s siblings put Dudley in the back of a car to rush him to the hospital, since no ambulance could get through the blockade. OPP refused to let the car through. George bled to death in the back seat. #ONpoli

#MikeHarris was directly implicated in ordering the OPP action against Stoney Point FN at #Ipperwash. Harris & his gov’t then tried to coverup Harris’ involvement in ordering a confrontation w/ the small group of unarmed protesters occupying an empty park. theglobeandmail.com/news/national/…

*Decades after the #MikeHarris government ordered violent confrontations with Stoney Point FN over the #Ipperwash lands that were rightfully theirs, the Trudeau gov’t stepped in to make right & settle the long outstanding claim. #ONpoli #cdnpoliglobalnews.ca/news/2639134/f…