A Short Follow-Up

As a follow-up to yesterday's post about the many bribes Doug Ford is offering voters to win their support in June, here are two letters that offer interesting perspectives:

Ontario drivers to save $120 per year through Premier Doug Ford’s cancelling of licence renewal fees — but it will cost Ontarians about $1 billion worth of services. Tolls are to be eliminated on Highways 412 and 418 — offering savings to drivers in Durham Region.

Now, nurses are being offered $5,000 as a “retention” bonus — but still face wage caps under Bill 124.

As a senior I am asking you, Premier Ford, what pre-election goodies are you offering to buy my vote this June?

Norah Downey, Midland, Ont.

 Ford offers nurses ‘retention’ bonus, Mar. 8

Once again, Doug Ford continues his method of governing: too much too late. I am neither an economist, nor a financial expert. I retired from a medical business, where I employed 20 folks, who, at the time I left, had worked with us for eight and a half years, an astounding rate of employee retention for our field.

In part, this was due to higher-than-average wages for our industry, along with generous vacation periods, and automatic sick pay.

With the nurses, wouldn’t it be much more prudent to increase their wages, rather than throwing money at the situation, after which the nurses might leave, in any case?

Mel Tonken, Toronto

The question remaining to be answered is how many voters will Ford have been able to corrupt by June 2, our election day?