Thread by @downtownrob88

Any hopes that the Covid disaster unfolding in the emergency rooms of provincially controlled hospitals might shame the premiers into action were demolished when the media decided it was all tightwad Justin Trudeau's fault and the premiers deserved praise for their prudent.../2

..money management skills;

Doug Ford earned special mention from a variety of libertarian media pundits for sharp budgeting that saw a $1.8B payment issued to the (likely indifferent) holders of Ontario debt. But the story of seriously ill citizens camped out on hard.../3

...terrazzo floors in overwhelmed hospitals, waiting for their lucky OHIP number to be called was a beat the media wretches refused to cover;

The Code Blues at infirmaries were ironically accompanied by the arrival of the Ford Disinformation Convoy to Victoria, B.C. .../4

..July 11/12, 2022, DoFo joining the other premiers in a Council of the Federation conference that quickly disintegrated into crass buckpassing and the usual tired script, deflecting from their mounting and egregious errors on Covid and preparing to lay blame on Trudeau for.../5

..the imminent Wave 7;

While the spoon-fed media played along with the notion Ottawa covers only 22% of healthcare funding (and the provinces needed fresh Trudeau billions), neither the feds nor the general public took the medicine. Residents in Conservative-ruled provinces.../6

...already know auditors have found the premiers diverted Covid cash to non-health-related purposes ($4.4B in the case of Ford Nation), despite muted, low-key news coverage about the alleged misappropriation;

Although the Financial Accountability Office confirmed as far .../7

...back as Mar 2, 2022 that the hardhearted premier had diverted an astounding $5.5B over the first 3 quarters of 2021, short-changing "other programs" ($2.28B), health ($1.29B) and children’s and social services ($1.2B), the hoarding never became frontpage news during the.../8

..media coronation/re-election of the King of Ford Nation;

The FAO confirmed Ford took $670M from public health, $554M from schools and $1.1B from social supports like ODSP during a 100-year pandemic – while simultaneously generating a $19.9 billion deficit. When advocates.../9

..for the poor and disabled, LTCs, health and education were clamouring for funding for nurses, safer schools and retirement homes, more testing, masks, paid sick days and CERB-like aid for the disabled, Ford ran off to Muskoka, made cheesecake and went snowmobiling, but .../10

...not before transferring almost $2M to the Plymouth Brethren for C19 masks.

#CLUSTERFORD

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