WHAT A WASTE OF TAXPAYERS MONEY! (2)


WHAT  A WASTE OF TAXPAYERS  MONEY!  (2) 

When Mr. Ford took over the reins of power in 2018  here in Ontario, we had a very successful Cap and Trade initiative with California. “Ontario joined the emissions market in 2017 and has raised more than $2 billion from the quarterly auctions.” CalMatters 2017 . Doug Ford without any consultation immediately cancelled this very successful program that actually reduced  GHGs.“ It  cost the province $ 10.5 billion in lost revenues, legal fees and compensation for cancelled contracts.”  NATIONAL OBSERVER, May 19, 2022. 

In Ontario we did not pay any federal carbon tax until Ford cancelled Cap and Trade in 2018. So, ironically, Ford who  never stopped railing against the carbon tax is actually the person responsible for people in Ontario having to pay this tax!

I personally was happy to pay if it meant my grandchildren would not have to live with the alarming outcomes of climate chaos. As well, with the rebate I received, I think I got more money back than I paid in carbon tax. Ford then wasted another 30 million  dollars of taxpayers’ money when he lost his ill- advised lawsuit against the carbon tax! ( Toronto Star, Mar. 25, 2021) 

After reading about many other  “GHG reductions programs” he cancelled, I am beginning to believe that like Trump, Ford thinks global overheating is a hoax. Why are civil servants not allowed to use the words climate change on social media?

 When we are living with the catastrophic impacts of global overheating like out- of- control forest fires and unprecedented flooding, I am at a loss  as to why  Ford cancelled 750 green energy programs, many of which were with First Nations, costing taxpayers $ 230 million!” ( National Observer, May 19, 2022)Ford’s indifference  to the ecological health of our  environment was further reinforced by his announcement that the 50 million  tree program was being eliminated.  (CBC  April 25, 2019). And, by cancelling theDrive Clean Program demonstrates clearly Ford has no understanding of the relationship between human health and breathing clean air. ( Toronto Star, Sept. 28, 2019. 

The Ford government has also shown a complete disregard for the  health and welfare of our children by cancelled 100 million  dollars  for repairs  for our crumbling schools. (CBC July 10, 2018.) So far he has cut education funds to the tune of nearly a billion  dollars negatively impacting  every single program  from special education  to mental health programs. ( Press Progress, July 20, 2022.)  Knowing full well that many students do not have computers or access to the internet Ford made it mandatory that secondary student to take 2  courses on-line!!

Then just recently he decided that all the residents of Ontario deserved a cheque of $200. I assumed it would be sent to only people who truly needed it to help make  ends meet. You can imagine my shock and dismay when I discovered billionaires such as David Thomson with a net worth of 41.8 billion, and  Tobi Lutke with a net worth 8 billion also received cheques  for $200 , while many, many homeless people with a net worth of nothing got NOTHING! So by sending out tax payers' hard earned money to countless people who did not need it, Mr. Ford increased our debt load by another 3 billion dollars! (Global News, Jan. 3. 2025.

 Then his very last gigantic waste of taxpayers dollars happened on the day he called an early election which  has now been estimated to cost up to 189 million dollars!  ( CFOB 93. 1)

I cannot think of a single Premier of Ontario who has wasted more of taxpayers hard earned money than Mr. Doug Ford!









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