MPP for Davenport | Leader of Ontario's Official Opposition @OntarioNDP

Toronto
I asked Doug Ford to recall the legislature so Ontario can fight back against Donald Trump’s tariffs. He called that “gutter politics.” Here is my response:
Why is every dollar of Ontario's new classroom supply fund locked into an American-owned chain, in the middle of a trade war, when Canadian retailers are right there? The Premier must cancel the Staples deal today. And then he must recall the legislature so we can pass emergency tariff relief now.
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Sabrina is 31 and fighting a rare, aggressive cancer. For weeks, Health Minister Sylvia Jones has said doctors decide whether patients like her get treatment outside the country. Now we know two medical experts and Ontario’s own health agency said yes to Sabrina, and it was the Minister’s own ministry that said no. Cancer patients shouldn’t have to fight their own government just to get care. Doug Ford must reverse this decision and give Sabrina a chance at life today.
Ontario refused cancer patient's U.S. treatment and never told her its own health agency recommended funding it, FOI reveals thetrillium.ca:443/news/heal…
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Students in Ontario did exactly what we told them to do. They went back to school and played by the rules, and Doug Ford still blamed them and even told them what to study. He started at the top of the ladder. Students deserve a Premier who helps them climb it.
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Doug Ford blamed students for misusing OSAP to buy watches and cologne. The truth is his government was warned again and again about shady private career colleges and did nothing. It's time for a plan, within 14 days, to get students the money they're owed.
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Desiree is a student at Mohawk College in Hamilton working three jobs, more than Doug Ford has ever had. After his OSAP cuts, she still can't afford tuition. She's doing everything right, so why is she the one paying for this government's failures?
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Doug Ford says his heart breaks for the students left behind by his OSAP mess. That's not enough. He's the Premier, and he has the power to fix this. Ford needs to get students the money they're owed, starting today.
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It’s too bad he’s been spending the last 8 years turning our hard earned taxpayer cash into trash.
On burning garbage, Premier Doug Ford says he wants to turn “trash to cash” by burning Ontario’s waste for energy. #onpoli
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Marit Stiles retweeted
What’s in a number? Ask the 2,088 Ontarians treated in hospital hallways every day. Ontario deserves better than Doug Ford’s broken health care promises.
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This Minister can’t get his story straight. This audit MUST be made public. We deserve to know how badly this government has mismanaged tax dollars and screwed students over.
The Minister's office now says they'd maybe be open to releasing some parts of KPMG's audit. With some caveats
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Follow the OSAP money. Academy of Learning, a private college, collected hundreds of millions in OSAP grants despite years of red flags. Three of its executives gave over $11,000 to members of Ford's government. Ford needs to explain why his government looked the other way.
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The rot starts at the top. Laurie Scott told lobbyist John Mutton to give Doug Ford a "nudge," and we'll never know if he did, because Ford changed the law to bury his own cell phone records. Doug Ford needs to tell Ontarians if he traded favours for donations.
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Doug Ford's government opened the floodgates on OSAP and raked in donations from private college executives. Now people like a single mom in Windsor training to be a PSW are paying for it with a lifetime of debt. It's time for Ford to fire Minister Nolan Quinn.
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How many fundraiser tickets will it take to get on Doug Ford's agenda? Laurie Scott helped a lobbyist's clients get a zoning order, then asked them to buy tickets to the Premier's fundraiser. It's time to end pay-to-play politics so your voice counts as much as a big cheque.
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PC MPP Laurie Scott texted banned lobbyist John Mutton asking his clients, the ones her office "just helped," to buy tickets to the Premier's fundraiser through her portal so she'd get credit. So is buying a ticket the only way to get on Doug Ford's agenda?
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Doug Ford ripped up my photo of his ministers celebrating the Academy of Learning's opening. Good thing I have copies. As long as the donations kept flowing, this government turned a blind eye, and now thousands of students are paying for it. So who is Ford really working for?
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Forty-two years ago this week, Sikh families across India, and especially in Delhi, were hunted in their homes and in the streets. Thousands were killed in just a few days, and most of the people responsible have never been held to account. We call it what it was: a genocide, and Ontario was the first legislature in Canada to recognize it as one. On Sunday I joined the sangat at Gurdwara Guru Nanak Mission Centre to remember the lives taken and honour the survivors and families who have kept their memory alive. I’ll keep standing with Sikh Ontarians in the fight for truth, justice and your safety here at home, for as long as it takes.
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I hear it all the time: young people in Ontario are giving up on owning a home and starting a family because life has gotten too expensive. That's why we’re pushing for a two-year rent freeze and for the province to start building permanently affordable homes – at scale.
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This is Doug Ford's Ontario. While his Ministers are eating lobster on the taxpayer dime, 1 in 8 Toronto kids are relying on food banks. We've put forward solutions to lower grocery costs; like scrapping the tax on groceries and banning surveillance pricing. Doug Ford has voted every one of them down. No one in Ontario should be going hungry — especially our kids. An NDP government will bring down everyday costs, and build an Ontario that everyone can afford.
BREAKING: For the second year in a row, #Toronto recorded a historic 4.1M food bank visits, a 333% increase over 2019 and enough to fill the Rogers Centre 75x. @DailyBreadTO's new #WhosHungry2026 report reveals why hunger is becoming harder to escape ➡️ dailybread.ca/whoshungry RT
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Remember when Doug Ford blamed students buying expensive watches and cologne for his OSAP cuts? Turns out the red flags were at private career colleges, under his own watch. Students did nothing wrong, and they're stuck with the debt. It's time to fire Minister Nolan Quinn.
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Thousands of OSAP applications came from one single IP address at a private career college called the Academy of Learning. The ministry knew, and Ottawa had flagged it too. This government did nothing, and now students are the ones stuck with the debt.
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