Thread by @downtownrob88

April 2021, Ford's Bill 254 election financing revamp, aka the Protecting Ontario Elections Act, is characterized as the "Squashing Ontario Democracy Act" by Unifor, the country's largest private sector union;

Ford's election law is starkly favourable to his PCs, hobbling../2

...labour and other 3rd parties during campaigns, but personal allowable contribution limits are doubled to $3,000;

Ford's amendments double the time spending limits are imposed on political advertising by 3rd parties, from 6 to 12 months leading to an election. During.../3

.. that time, each interest group or individual's ad spend is now limited;

An ON Superior Court Justice found 4 sections of Bill 254 infringed s. 2. of the Charter based on freedom of expression;

In response to the Superior Court rebuke, as usual embracing audacity over.../4

..legality, Ford invokes the Charter's section 33 notwithstanding clause an unprecedented 2nd time, and this time plays the wildcard, the first ON premier to do so in the Charter's 40-year history;

Dictator Doug reintroduced the sections using the clause to.../5

...override the Superior Court ruling, passing the amendments with a vote of 63 to 47;

The results have been on display since the election was called: Ford's face and voice have been on view continuously - but no issue advertising is offered by teachers, HCWs, the disabled../6

.. LTC/Covid victims, small business, etc., as Ford blunts (and handcuffs) critics as a strategy to win elections. Nevertheless, an incurious media wonders why the campaign went flat.

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