We know from documents recently released that the Ontario Government was advised last year to only open schools if students could distance (ie smaller classes), and rapid tests and proper tracing procedures were in place. It hid that advice and lied about it /2
Teachers sought scientific advice, through their unions, from Dr David Fisman. Good thing they did, given the governments lack of transparency and honesty. Now Ontario is attacking him: for giving professional advice to people who needed it and asked /3
Ontario should be saying #thankyoudavidfisman for providing his expertise and advice to help prevent transmission and save lives; instead, it attacks an expert who speaks truth - truth that it doesn't like and ignored/4
The fault lies with the Province for hiding the advice it got from its advisory group about school safety and the need for smaller classes, rapid testing and tracing. Thats a shocking dereliction of duty - it could have made schools safe and chose not to.
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The St Barts vacation and the lies require resignation. But so does the mishandling of the second wave. No proper tracing / testing for workplaces where the most problems are; no plan to help low income neighbourhoods where those working people live;
Letting the owners of the worst Long Term Care Homes used COVID funds to pay themselves a bonus; failing to use COVID funds to help people and much, much more. The St Barts vacation, and the Premiers lies about it, are a symptom of an out of touch and negligent government
I've just seen reports about the Provincial intent to massively interfere in the planning and building of transit in Toronto. This is disastrous for Toronto residents and must be fought with every means possible.
First of all, the idea that the Province of Ontario has any current expertise in Transit construction is fiction. This paragraph of the Provincial letter is brazenly false: pbs.twimg.com/media/D2nrjAMU…
Since announcing full funding for Transit City on June 15, 2007, here are the successful transit projects that the Province of Ontario has built in Toronto on time and on budget: ( 0 )