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Jun 29 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
NEW: Premier Doug Ford names 43 of his MPPs to be parliamentary assistants, which gives them each a $16,600 bump in pay above the standard MPP salary of $116,500.
Added to his 30-member cabinet, this means 73/83 PCs have extra duties & extra pay. #onpoli
By the way, salaries for all Ontario MPPs (whether backbenchers, parliamentary assistants, Leader of the Opposition or Premier) have been frozen since 2008. #onpoli
cbc.ca/news/canada/to…
Also, there remain opportunities for the other 10 PC MPPs not on this list to get pay bumps as well: the Speaker, deputy speakers, caucus chair, whip & chairs of legislative committees all get pay hikes too. #onpoli ontario.ca/laws/statute/9…
If you're wanting to compare Premier Doug Ford's count of 43 parliamentary assistants to previous governments, Kathleen Wynne named 29 parliamentary assistants after winning the 2014 election. #onpoli news.ontario.ca/en/backgrounde…
10 @OntarioPCParty MPPs are neither ministers nor parliamentary assistants, but @MPPArnottWHH @ninatangri are running for Speaker @RossRomanoSSM is govt whip.
The rest:
@Aris_Babikian @WillBoumaBrant @gghamari @erniehardeman Lisa MacLeod @LaurieScottPC @SkellyHamilton #onpoli

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Mar 30
BREAKING: The Ford government’s plan to tackle the high cost of buying a home is coming today.
⁦⁦⁩⁩⁦@CBCNews⁩ has learned that new legislation will aim to speed up municipal approvals of housing projects as “first part of long-term plan.” cbc.ca/news/canada/to…
The government will give reporters more detail on its housing plan at 12 noon during a technical briefing, then the legislation is to be tabled around 1pm, with a news conference to follow at 1:15. #onpoli
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Mar 30
NEW: Premier Doug Ford’s government is asking the Supreme Court of Canada to hear its case to keep cabinet ministers’ mandate letters secret. #onpoli
Story by ⁦@CBCToronto⁩’s ⁦@nicolebrockbank⁩ cbc.ca/news/canada/to…
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The Ford government fought that ruling at the Ontario Divisional Court, and lost. #onpoli
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Mar 29
BREAKING: The Ford government is boosting Ontario's foreign buyers tax on residential real estate to 20%, and expanding it to apply province-wide.
(Currently it's 15% and only applicable on homes in a stretch of southern Ontario in & around GTA.) #onpoli
news.ontario.ca/en/release/100…
This is big news. It's the first substantive thing the Ford government has done to address demand factors in the astonishingly rapid rise of the cost of buying a home in Ontario. Average home sale price has jumped 44% in two years. crea.ca/housing-market…
The Wynne government brought in Ontario's foreign buyers' tax in 2017, at a time when home prices were also skyrocketing. It had an almost immediate effect in bringing prices down. #onpoli
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Mar 27
BREAKING: Ontario reaches $10-a-day child-care deal with federal government: sources #onpoli cbc.ca/news/canada/to…
The deal commits the federal government to providing $10.2 B to Ontario over 5 years. That is the same amount that the Trudeau government offered to Ontario when talks on the child-care plan began last year. #onpoli #cdnpoli
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Ontario is the last province to sign on to the child care deal. While it helps neutralize what could have become a big election issue, there will be questions about what the Ford government accomplished by taking so long to get here.
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Mar 27
Premier Doug Ford, at a groundbreaking ceremony for the Ontario Line, says governments have talked about a new subway for Toronto for years. Then in an echo of his "Get It Done" re-election campaign slogan, says "We're the government that got it done." #onpoli
With the help of the federal government, Doug Ford's @OntarioPCParty govt is on a streak of saying they got stuff done. 1. Earlier this week: a $4.9B electric vehicle battery plant in Windsor.
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2. Nearly $1 billion in combined provincial & federal funding to help the ArcelorMittal Dofasco steel plant convert to low-carbon technology. #onpoli
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Jan 27
BREAKING: Not only did all board members of FH Health each donate max permitted amount to @OntarioPCParty within a few days of each other last fall, so did a bunch of their family members and colleagues, the @OntarioNDP has revealed. #onpoli
As first reported by @Alan_S_Hale, the company FH Health recently got a sole-sourced contract to run vaccine clinics. @TarasNatyshak is holding news conference right now calling this egregious and is asking @ElectionsON to investigate. #onpoli
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Ontario's Election Finances Act makes it illegal for a person to donate money that isn't theirs. (This is to prevent a company or union from funnelling money to political parties through people.)

Also, it's illegal for the parties to accept such donations.
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