I'm on a bit of a tight schedule today, so I cede to newspaper letter-writers their thoughts on Doug Ford's tactics and values before his province-wide blink yesterday.
Premier Ford’s decision to withdraw Bill 28, and go back to the bargaining table shows the kind of things that can happen when you stand up to a bully.
“I pity that man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth shall starve in the process.” This quotation, by former U.S. president Benjamin Harrison, was posted on the wall of the union office where I once worked.
It makes me wonder: how cheap does the Ford government want to make our educational system?
Trampling the rights of the lowest paid is not only deplorable, but devastating to our society.
Who wants to live, work and do business in a province that disrespects and under values its education and health care professionals?
Ontarians want and deserve better.
Nobody loves a bully.
The development lobby gets approval to build Highway 413, at a cost of $8.2 billion amid disagreement about its utility.
More than $1 billion a year in annual licence fees is given away as an election goody.
Ongoing green energy projects were scrapped mid-development at a cost of $230 million, amid a growing climate-crisis. The lowest paid education workers (70 per cent women), earning less than $40,000 a year, get offered a salary increase of 1.5 per cent, or, in some cases, 2.5 per cent..
Any trained nurse (more than 90 per cent women), with a salary capped at one per cent, could have easily and far more effectively triaged these competing priorities, so that the educational chaos spread across the Star’s recent front pages could have been avoided.
