u/lopix

At Peter Bethlenfalvy's office at 1550 Kingston Road @ 11AM

Reposted from elsewhere:

Come with your friends and signs to make your voices heard. There are so many reasons why we must tell Ford that we will not accept his policies crooked or otherwise. He will hear us loud and clear. We will not stop!

This list is an amalgamation of the reasons people have been sharing:

Someone asked what we were protesting today. Pick the issue with the Ford government:

• Not properly funding healthcare (more hallway medicine)
• Allowing the privatization of healthcare
• Not adequately funding education
• Passing Bill 60 which allows for the privatization of essential public assets like water
• Changes to OSAP (more loans less grants) leaving young people with debts or denying them higher education altogether
• Amalgamation of Conservation Authorities
• Destroying good planning policy
• Taking over school boards
• Interfering in municipal elections
• Changing the Law so Ford and other government members can hide their phone records
• Interfering in municipal decisions re. bike lanes/speed cameras etc.
• Downloading Provincial responsibilities to municipalities and not paying for them leaving Niagara, for instance, with a $100 Million funding gap annually
• Destroying wetland protection policies
• Cancelling $850 million in green energy contracts
• Destroying Ontario Place for a private spa and spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer $$ to build a parking garage for it
• Destroying the Science Centre
• Investing in super expensive new nuclear when renewable energy with battery storage is the cheapest energy
• Ruining waste diversions programs (batteries, tires, bottles that were being collected now often going to waste). 413, Bradford bypass, Tunnel, Selling the Greenbelt after promising repeatedly not to, Wasaga Beach, Dresden Dump, tree planting program, bike lanes, negligible housing starts, abolished rent control, building codes, homelessness, Indigenous curriculum, testing, defunding post secondary, increasing class size, autism support, private training replacing college programs, school trustees, education funding, skills trades fiasco, changed math curriculum, cut education workers salaries, national day care, car registration bribe, snap election, interference in municipal affairs, strong mayor powers, Eglinton cross town, happy that Trump won (admires him), pressured chief acct to lie, spa, parking, CNE, jail overcrowding, court times, massive debt, jerrymandering ridings, changed election dates, convoy, lawsuits, did I say increased the debt?, Health care layoffs, closed safe consumption sites, Health at home, PPE, mental health cuts, on line gambling & ads, defunded women’s shelters, privatizing health care, paying out of pocket for health care, LTC death and destruction, missing Health care funding, stem cell research funding, cuts to disability programs, hallway health care/wait times, speed cameras, Ontario Place, food insecurity/increased food bank use, selling farmland to developers, poor job creations, awarding contracts to American companies, encouraging us to travel to Michigan, having a tantrum over EV’s from China, hydro, beer/liquor stores, Staples/Service Ontario, Advertising $$ pre-election, license plates, nepo appointees, recycling, cut basic income trials, justice system backlogs, OSAP, Science Centre closure, slashed funding for women’s shelters, FOI, Island, Airport, Convention Centre, privatization of anything he can.
• And the list goes on.

What the title says. Love to hear about any experiences, good and bad. Costs, problems, energy savings, all of it.