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May 28 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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
...clinics. Despite its near-unanimous support, Ford told an anti-abortion organization that he opposed the so-called “censorship legislation.”

Soon after coming to power in 2018, Ford moved to scrap Ontario’s sex-ed curriculum and even set up a snitch line to report.../4
...teachers who failed to toe the government’s line, but ultimately Ford bent to pressure from students and parents.

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US-based management consultants McKinsey & Co. win a sole-source $1.6M contract to set up Ford's so-called Covid Command Structure in March 2020 – after the consulting firm cold-called Ford’s office;

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Notorious former Conservative MP Derek Sloan, self-confessed white supremacist Christofascist who represented an Eastern ON district for the CPC, drafts American MAGA Roger Stone into his Ontario Party election campaign, ostensibly to gin up the motorcycle convoy and.../2
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Wave 6 arrives Mar 2022, but in DougNation it marks the fewest tests conducted, 6,243, since May 2020, as the PCR testing regime of Ford succeeds in suppressing case numbers in advance of the June 2 vote;

Ford's $2.7B Covid Fund untouched and untapped during Q1 2021;

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Ministry of Education proposes student health support tasks previously performed by HCWs to be downloaded to untrained educators or outside agencies, Mar 24/22. /4
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McVety's science-averse Evangelical "University", accused of espousing homophobia, Islamophobia and transphobia, yet promoted by Ford, is refused degree-granting status in May 2021. The Ford government had passed legislation in 2020 to fast-track the college’s status.../2
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Ford falsely accused NDP MPP Sol Mamakwa, (Cree FN-Sioux Lookout), of vaccine queue-jumping in a racially tinged attack in Mar 2021. Reaching a new hyperpartisan low in QP, Ford, under cover of parliamentary privilege, dabbling in slander, bellowed: "The member (Mamakwa).../2
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Mamakwa said the premier’s comments .../3
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