Thread by @downtownrob88

Unrelenting in his indolence, still celebrating a PC Party victory two months after it happened, Doug Ford finally emerged Aug 3, 2022 to obfuscate and deflect on hospital department closures, but not before the cowardly label-maker had run his embattled Mistress of Health.../2

.. in front of friendly CP24 news people a day earlier, for a 10-minute Zoom call to answer for the healthcare emergency;

True to form, the media proved unable to formulate follow-up questions to routine deflection from the determined Ms Sylvia Jones, fresh and energized.../3

....from a celebratory round of golf with Doug. The shirking MoH somehow found positives in the fact stakeholders were holding unreported, behind-the-scenes meetings about the emergency and that half of a $5K retention bonus for nurses was yet to come, while touting the ../4

..10,500 "new" HCW trainees on the job. But she cleverly failed to state how many trained staff had left the business, mainly because not one of the assembled press wretches asked her;

The linchpin of Ford’s war on public sector wages and a lightning rod for anger with the.../5

..regime, Bill 124, Protecting a Sustainable Public Sector for Future Generations Act, 2019, remains untouchable for the moment, a matter for "another day", said the sanguine Jones. Demands for the repeal of the wage-suppression legislation began when Covid hit in March 2020../6

Two-plus years later, Ford, still shamelessly pleading for more Trudeau Toonies, has found billions for licence plate refunds and WSIB premium rebates, but none for the overworked public employees involved in pandemic healthcare.

#CLUSTERFORD #onpoli

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