Thread by @downtownrob88

Ford's finance boss introduced the PCs' final budget Apr 28, at which point Ford and his MPPs ran for the exits, shunning the legislature and the citizenry until a September 2022 return date;

In a measure of Ford's jarring and arrogant disrespect of democratic norms, the .../2

.. late-by-design pre-election budget wasn't presented to MPPs for a vote, but overtaken instead by the election, making it a footnote to fiscal history, irrelevant if Ford loses and not necessarily honoured if he wins;

Ford's amendment brazenly exempts himself from a.../3

.. $9.2K delay penalty, ($5.8K for his finance boss) as the millionaire premier continues to choose expediency over integrity in government;

Ford's dissolution budget offers a paltry new tax break that will give back an avg $300 a year ($5.77/week) for 1.1M workers earning../4

..up to $50K a year; the measure elicits yawns from its beneficiaries but garners loud headlines from the pro-Ford media;

Ford's finance boss said the province's plan for producing electric vehicles is partly about achieving climate targets, "without imposing a carbon tax."../5

Yet the 268-pg budget document itself mentions the term "climate change" only once;

The Ontario Auditor General says the latest Ford budget has $15.6B in unallocated funds;

ON Auditor General found $11.2B in business supports were inefficiently spent.

#VoteFordOutJune2