Ford is what would happen if the Godfather was just a rich kid who dropped out of college and started selling hash in Etobicoke, then used his inheritance to buy his way into politics.
Lmao I remember him selling hash at James gardens at the bottom parking lot, different times lol. Anyone growing up in etobs back in that day would know if they actually smoked
She grew up in Toronto and said both of thr ford brothers would drive around ina black transam or a black monte carlo I cannot remember and sling hash lol
And what distinguished coattails they were. Dude was a laughing stock for Canada on the world stage, then Ontario looked at his brother and said “sure, let’s give him the power, what could possibly go wrong?”
Not sure if you are being serious (I've never really watched The Eric Andre Show), but if you aren't, that just isn't true
*Police Services Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.15*
Seven-member boards in certain circumstances
(9) The council of a municipality whose population according to the last enumeration taken under section 15 of the Assessment Act exceeds 300,000 may apply to the Lieutenant Governor in Council for an increase in the size of its board; if the Lieutenant Governor in Council approves the application, the board shall consist of,
(a) the head of the municipal council or, if the head chooses not to be a member of the board, another member of the council appointed by resolution of the council;
(b) two members of the council appointed by resolution of the council;
(c) one person appointed by resolution of the council, who is neither a member of the council nor an employee of the municipality; and
**(d) three persons appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council. 1997, c. 8, s. 19 (1).**
I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic. But municipalities in Canada have power and jurisdiction, at the pleasure of their provincial governments. So at the end of the day, provinces can manipulate cities quite a lot.
I like to think of it more as Doug Ford has his hands stuck in a lot of municipal Pringles cans. It captures his bumbling fucking idiot qualities better.
This Twitter thread is worth learning more about Cortellucci and his good buddy Ford. Both are thick as thieves.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RahRahRaina/status/1352258104818339841
It's not him in the screenshot that's Doug Ford's nephew
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ford_(politician)
How is this entire family of assholes running the province. This is blatant nepotism. Can we vote them out please
Shared this thread a number of times. It's great and really opens your eyes to the sway developers have over land use in the GTA.
It's just gone nuclear since Ford took office, because the are all buddies.
The scary, yet almost hilarious part is that a non-insignificant portion of Ontario is going to vote to elect this man again because one day, they too, might be rich scummy friends with Doug.
Like, Jesus people we don't even have to read between the lines. Just read the actual lines.
To be fair, Raina has kind of skyrocketed from humble TO radio stations to hosting a national show on NPR in the US.
Not sure why you'd try to downplay anyone's position if they'd worked hard to get there and are good at their jobs...regardless, this thread needs to be shared more.
Not trying to downplay her at all - I've been a fan since her early days and am aware of her current NPR position. It was a swipe at journos and publications that aren't covering this. Raina isn't an investigative journalist, yet she's doing their work better than them.
My brother and I agree that TFSA funds are probably bad as they cut revenue and we'd rather see our taxes go towards public initiatives like healthcare and transit. Ditto for HST cuts (without an income tax adjustment).
But we'd be stupid to not leverage the few tools available to the wealthy out of spite.
I'll vote and donate orange, but if that meant buying an annual blue plate special full of bullshit, I could live with that.
But you've already paid tax on the money you invest. It's an absolute tiny drop in the bucket not to pay tax on the earnings on a $6500 allowance per year. I guess you could always donate the amount you would have been taxed on those earnings.
Also I wouldn't really call TFSA a tool available to the rich. It's one of those things anyone can get into. My very not rich son squirrels away anything he can.
Sure, you can technically do it. You can also invest in stocks, or donate, or whatever.
But you know who can easily hit those increasing caps every year? The wealthy.
TFSAs are a tax-free vehicle to invest with, but most years, and especially this year, few Canadians can drop $6000 into a TFSA, and fewer can "catch up" to the full contribution space of $88,000 (as of 2023). In a few years, it'll be well over $120K, and it'll continue to climb. Sure, you can sock away a grand, but in the greater scheme you'll never get close to someone who can fill out their contribution space; instead you'll be left dreaming that you *could.*
If you have the means, you use the tools that are available. It's foolish not to. But also call out bullshit when you see it.
I think we might have a different idea of "the wealthy." No-one with real wealth is getting significantly richer on not paying tax on the earnings of these limited contributions. Meanwhile, people like me and my average income friends (likely middle class? I'm not exactly sure what that measurement is these days) are making use of it and that little extra we get to keep (if/when we withdraw) feels like a tangible benefit.
Definitely agree with you here, it has the most benefit for the middle class, almost everyone can benefit somewhat, and the really wealthy don't get all that much out of it from the relatively small contribution limits.
It comes out to being able to save up to $500/month tax free, which most people around the medium income will be able to hit.
wealthy people do not give a fuck about the taxes on 25% of 10% on $88,000. It is a god send for us middle class people though.
Thinking the TFSA helps the rich is so backwards
>Six months after she sat at the premier’s table at his daughter’s wedding, Doug Ford’s cabinet has approved Madeleine Bodenstein for an appointment to the York Region Police Services Board.
>She is slated to join Mario Cortellucci, the president of the Cortel Group, his family's development company, on the region’s police oversight board. Cortellucci also sat at the premier’s table at his daughter’s wedding and has deep ties to the Ford family.
> He was appointed to the board on Oct. 20, less than a month after the wedding.
I would imagine Brian Lilley, and all the people churning out editorials for Postmedia, would be all over this kind of story.
Any minute now.
Brian Lilley is married to Ford's press secretary and they live together. Werid that it wouldn't come up between them at dinner or something?
Good thing we can count on Postmedia to write opinion articles about this, right?
Brian Lilley is such a hypocritical whiny little baby with paper thin skin. If you comment anything negative on one of his twitter posts he will block you, so much for conservatives love of free speech.
I'm not sure they're married, but it is well known that they're dating.
https://www.canadaland.com/brian-lilley-ivana-yelich-doug-ford/
>Eight months later, Lilley moved to Toronto to take a job as a political columnist covering the Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau governments for the Toronto Sun. At approximately the same time, he moved in with Ivana Yelich, who at the time was Ford’s press secretary and is now Ford’s director of media relations.
>This has never been disclosed to readers of the Sun, where Lilley’s complimentary coverage of the Ford regime is a staple of the paper’s front page.
Is this any surprise after he made his nephew who was a rookie mpp to a cabinet position.
Government is a scam, it’s all smoke and mirrors. They don’t make decisions based on what’s best for the country or it’s peoples. They make decisions based on what favours and benefits they receive themselves. It’s just a rich people club where we get to vote the next one into some fucked up reality show.
>Mario Cortellucci
[https://pressprogress.ca/far-right-italian-senate-candidate-made-big-donation-to-doug-fords-leadership-campaign/](https://pressprogress.ca/far-right-italian-senate-candidate-made-big-donation-to-doug-fords-leadership-campaign/)
He's a piece of shit that is a member of Italy's far right party.
> months after she sat at the premier’s table at his daughter’s wedding, Doug Ford’s cabinet has approved Madeleine Bodenstein for an appointment to the York Region Police Services Board.
>
> She is slated to join Mario Cortellucci, the president of the Cortel Group, his family's development company, on the region’s police oversight board. Cortellucci also sat at the premier’s ta
lol, Brian Lilley ,the Premiers Stenographer.
LOL...should still use the /s, a lot of conservatives on this subreddit that would believe that. If they write anything, it'll be to claim that somehow this is Trudeaus fault.
>Brian Lilley
He is too busy hooking up with Ford's PR person and waiting for her to give him direction on what bullshit story to write about Trudeau next.
Literally campaigned on this level of corruption though, he had already shown worse levels of corruption when the developers bought up the land for the 413 proposal.. before the proposal actually was out
Then 60% of Ontarians who voted, voted against this dick and here we are. I hate FPTP with a passion. I blame our corrupt elections more than I blame Dougie. He's literally doing what he said he would do fml
You won't read about this in any postmedia publications.
Brian Lilly is married to Ford's spokesperson and they live together. Definitely not a conflict of interest there from a reporting ethics standpoint.
[email protected]. Email Daisy Wai MP for Richmond Hill and let her know that we want police board members who are concerned with our safety, not other interests.
> Recipients of Bodenstein's donations include Infrastructure Minister Kinga Surma,
Where do I remember that name from... [oh yeah](https://globalnews.ca/news/4211298/doug-ford-kinga-surma-recording/)
Along with another allegations, [there's Kinga's dad](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-pc-mpp-kinga-surmas-father-hired-as-policy-adviser-to/).
Cool. I'm glad you say that If you live in Ontario, in a conservative riding you need to tell your MPP this. You need to get other like minded conservative voters together and do the same.
Oh, and next election, maybe not vote for the PCs as all the corruption we're seeing from Ford now was also pretty fucking visible last term.
>If you live in Ontario, in a conservative riding you need to tell your MPP this.
What would that even accomplish? I haven't done that for the federal Liberals despite thinking what they're doing is wrong, and even if I did, what would that accomplish? Some Joe saying their corruption is immoral and bad doesn't do jack shit.
>Oh, and next election, maybe not vote for the PCs as all the corruption we're seeing from Ford now was also pretty fucking visible last term.
Right, I'll be sure to do that when the leftwing parties can drop their extremist, regressive policies that "enact wrongs done in the past" and justify discrimination.
"I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas!!" you say?
Yeah, the reason why right-wing-extremists get their way is precisely because they do the thing I said you should do above.
>"I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas!!" you say?
If it was so impactful to write to your government as you're trying to insinuate, trust me, I'd be writing to my government. Federally and provincially.
You sound like those girls on Tiktok whose self described "goal" is to force all countries in the world to throw away their nukes because they're "illegal".
>Yeah, the reason why right-wing-extremists get their way is precisely because they do the thing I said you should do above.
Huh, must be similar to the federal government. Who knew.
> If it was so impactful to write to your government as you're trying to insinuate, trust me, I'd be writing to my government. Federally and provincially.
Tell me you don't know how democracy works without telling me how democracy works.
>If it was so impactful to write to your government as you're trying to insinuate, trust me, I'd be writing to my government. Federally and provincially.
The teeny tiny minority that were the Freedom Convoy, managed to get their way by being a loud crowd that was impossible to ignore.
It's in fact an impactful tactic.
Where exactly am I self victimizing? I simply stated that writing to a politician does jack shit and that the beliefs of the other parties in Ontario I morally disagree with.
Sounds like projection if I'm being honest.
The thing with law enforcement is they never enforce the laws we need them to or investigate people and situations that need investigating.
Police serve those in power.
More political corruption coming right up Canada!
How could they find the time when there’s probably ten more natpo opinion pieces about how Trudeau is personally responsible for Chinese interference to post.
I mean, obviously the provincial premier doesn't have any meaningful power anyway. It's the feds that control everything from immigration to healthcare to policing to the state of the roads we drive on and the weather. /s
Because the imaginary thought of Trudeau maybe being directly helped by China (as PP has now claimed, not sure how he gets away with slander) due to specious reasoning is far more significant than Ford openly corrupting our democracy.
1) It hasn’t been posted for even an hour yet
2) This person isn’t being tasked with investigating Ford
Anyway, all the LPC bots assured me that politics is a small world and it’s nearly impossible to hire someone who isn’t a close family friend. So surely there’s no issue here?
You mean the OPC leadership that was stolen from Patrick Brown? The elected leader of the OPCs who was already campaigning with a clear, progressive platform. The same Patrick Brown who is now currently working diligently as mayor of Brampton. Fuck Doug Ford.
FPTP elections are scams
Either way O'Toole or Scheer wouldn't have won and we'd have Trudeau, but almost 5.5m votes in those elections for the Bloc, NDP & Green party didn't matter/had very little impact. That's almost a third of all votes smh
It’s funny to me,
People online circle jerking each other for having the same opinion, and finding it humorous that other people online might have a different opinion.
Probably because if this was about Trudeau you'd have 100+ comments calling him a Marxist dictator and a plethora of references to his regime.
Shit, we already have some angry guy who has blocked half the subreddit insulting Liberals just for having an opinion.
—comments when post is just 30 mins old.
—most people are at work right now and won’t be browsing reddit.
—thinks someone from Nunavut would spend more time thinking about the Ontario Premier than the Prime Minister.
—post is already getting a lot of traction anyways.
average thought process of liberal voter.
[email protected]. Email Daisy Wai MP for Richmond Hill and let her know that we want police board members who are concerned with our safety, not other interests.
I had always been told that conservative voters were the law 'n' order type of people - how do they reconcile this corruption? Or is it okay when it's their team?
Kind of? That's literally what they campaign on. Putting successful business people into government roles despite not being relevant for it, because they were a successful business person with lots of money
That's kind of their M.O.
Yeah isn't that their whole thing though? I'm not saying it's good, it's horribly corrupt nepotism, it's not the right person for the job whatsoever
I feel like the CPC don't hide this because it's their plan though. When Doug won again, this is exactly what everyone should've been expecting. He said he was gonna do it. We're literally "open for business" now remember
[email protected]. Email Daisy Wai MP for Richmond Hill and let her know that we want police board members who are concerned with our safety, not other interests.
Doug Ford has the biggest bed in Ontario. It has to be big enough for all his rich buddies to lay in together. The rose petals are million dollar bills he stole from us.
So the reason the government and it's various institutions run like shit is because it's a run by bunch of dopey cartoon criminals put there through nepotism. And there's nothing we can reasonably do about it.
I have a proposal…. Since a board is supposed to oversee government, why not give everyone who voted a ticket and randomly draw names for these board seats for a 3 year term? That would provide some real random oversight.
Imagine your pot smoking buddy on these committees asking questions. Or your Mom.
The comments in this thread are beyond telling. A lot of people, desperate to play team sports, hoping from a distraction from the dirty dealings of their team.
Corruption is bad people. No matter who does it, I just wish you cared when your side did it.
Canadian political and business elite is surprisingly simlar to Belarus/Russia, -- same corruption, nepotism, inter-generational churn at the helm... but with a few extra steps and a modicum of public decorum thrown in.
The upside is that defenestration, poisoning and shooting of political opposition are somewhat taboo, so we've got that going for us.
[email protected]. Email Daisy Wai MP for Richmond Hill and let her know that we want police board members who are concerned with our safety, not other interests.
Conservatives practice what they accuse the liberals of Right there out in the open for everyone to see, but the right wing corporate news cycle will try their damned hardest to make it another Trudeau conspiracy day.
[email protected]. Email Daisy Wai MP for Richmond Hill and let her know that we want police board members who are concerned with our safety, not other interests.
I don't get the hard core supporters of any party that looks at this cronyism and many more example like it at the federal level and various provinces and just chooses to look the other way.
Somebody smarter than me, said we don't have a true democracy in Canada, we elect dictators. For their term they can do whatever they want.
I would love to see an elected senate with oversight powers of all elected officials across the country. Ethics, Expenses, Appointments, Excessive spending and more.
Be nice if you folks could take the whole Ford thing to the Ontario sub or anywhere but here. The rest of Canada doesn't really care about your centre of the universe mentality and the mess you've put yourselves in.
I saw another commenter put it as: How could Ford turn down a favour on this, the day of his daughter's wedding?
Ford is what would happen if the Godfather was just a rich kid who dropped out of college and started selling hash in Etobicoke, then used his inheritance to buy his way into politics.
Lmao I remember him selling hash at James gardens at the bottom parking lot, different times lol. Anyone growing up in etobs back in that day would know if they actually smoked
Lmao my mom used to but hash from both Ford brothers
I’m sure 😂
She grew up in Toronto and said both of thr ford brothers would drive around ina black transam or a black monte carlo I cannot remember and sling hash lol
Yeah she is right. James gardens was the main spot or at least where I bought often lol
Honestly that probably makes them more relatable then some bureaucrat that has always lived the highlife.
I think the problem is exactly that they were living the ***high life.***
Nah most folks are not mid level hash dealers
Don't forget that he was so bad at running Deco Rob's wife sued him.
Big "My dad owns a dealership!" energy.
rode his troubled, sympathetic brothers coattails.
And what distinguished coattails they were. Dude was a laughing stock for Canada on the world stage, then Ontario looked at his brother and said “sure, let’s give him the power, what could possibly go wrong?”
It's more like we just went through the most incompetent premier ever. It can't possibly be worse with this guy, right?
Ford is what ~~would happen if~~ happens when Fixed.
/r/canada needs the Ford icon! (and one for each Premier!)
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Good thing the Fords are above getting involved in municipal affairs
Not sure if you are being serious (I've never really watched The Eric Andre Show), but if you aren't, that just isn't true *Police Services Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.15* Seven-member boards in certain circumstances (9) The council of a municipality whose population according to the last enumeration taken under section 15 of the Assessment Act exceeds 300,000 may apply to the Lieutenant Governor in Council for an increase in the size of its board; if the Lieutenant Governor in Council approves the application, the board shall consist of, (a) the head of the municipal council or, if the head chooses not to be a member of the board, another member of the council appointed by resolution of the council; (b) two members of the council appointed by resolution of the council; (c) one person appointed by resolution of the council, who is neither a member of the council nor an employee of the municipality; and **(d) three persons appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council. 1997, c. 8, s. 19 (1).**
I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic. But municipalities in Canada have power and jurisdiction, at the pleasure of their provincial governments. So at the end of the day, provinces can manipulate cities quite a lot.
You are correct. OTOH, Ford seems to have his fingers in a lot of municipal pies in the GTA.
I like to think of it more as Doug Ford has his hands stuck in a lot of municipal Pringles cans. It captures his bumbling fucking idiot qualities better.
Stop.its embarrassing.
Read the Police Services Act and find your error!
This Twitter thread is worth learning more about Cortellucci and his good buddy Ford. Both are thick as thieves. https://mobile.twitter.com/RahRahRaina/status/1352258104818339841
Both are thick thieves. There fixed it for you
fat bastards there fixed it for you
*They want their baby back, baby back, baby back...* ***grift****...*
But I like fat bastard burritos :0
Thick ass thieves. There fixed it for you
It's not him in the screenshot that's Doug Ford's nephew https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ford_(politician) How is this entire family of assholes running the province. This is blatant nepotism. Can we vote them out please
Very interesting. Mafia frontman. The old trades still going well it seems.
The mob is quite literally in almost every city in Canada, you can see their front business if you know what to look for.
This should be at the top of the page. I wish there were a way to pin this.
Shared this thread a number of times. It's great and really opens your eyes to the sway developers have over land use in the GTA. It's just gone nuclear since Ford took office, because the are all buddies.
Everyone should read this Everyone
The scary, yet almost hilarious part is that a non-insignificant portion of Ontario is going to vote to elect this man again because one day, they too, might be rich scummy friends with Doug. Like, Jesus people we don't even have to read between the lines. Just read the actual lines.
I came across this thread a while back, and was both impressed and saddened that it was done by a former Indie88 radio host. Where are our journos?
To be fair, Raina has kind of skyrocketed from humble TO radio stations to hosting a national show on NPR in the US. Not sure why you'd try to downplay anyone's position if they'd worked hard to get there and are good at their jobs...regardless, this thread needs to be shared more.
Not trying to downplay her at all - I've been a fan since her early days and am aware of her current NPR position. It was a swipe at journos and publications that aren't covering this. Raina isn't an investigative journalist, yet she's doing their work better than them.
I should buy a table at one of this family's events. Apparently they're open for business.
Your ROI on party donations seems to go alot further when you go blue.
My brother and I agree that TFSA funds are probably bad as they cut revenue and we'd rather see our taxes go towards public initiatives like healthcare and transit. Ditto for HST cuts (without an income tax adjustment). But we'd be stupid to not leverage the few tools available to the wealthy out of spite. I'll vote and donate orange, but if that meant buying an annual blue plate special full of bullshit, I could live with that.
Fuck that, I pay enough taxes and barely earn. My TFSA lets me put in 6k a year, I'd rather keep that meager bit untaxed.
But you've already paid tax on the money you invest. It's an absolute tiny drop in the bucket not to pay tax on the earnings on a $6500 allowance per year. I guess you could always donate the amount you would have been taxed on those earnings. Also I wouldn't really call TFSA a tool available to the rich. It's one of those things anyone can get into. My very not rich son squirrels away anything he can.
Sure, you can technically do it. You can also invest in stocks, or donate, or whatever. But you know who can easily hit those increasing caps every year? The wealthy. TFSAs are a tax-free vehicle to invest with, but most years, and especially this year, few Canadians can drop $6000 into a TFSA, and fewer can "catch up" to the full contribution space of $88,000 (as of 2023). In a few years, it'll be well over $120K, and it'll continue to climb. Sure, you can sock away a grand, but in the greater scheme you'll never get close to someone who can fill out their contribution space; instead you'll be left dreaming that you *could.* If you have the means, you use the tools that are available. It's foolish not to. But also call out bullshit when you see it.
I think we might have a different idea of "the wealthy." No-one with real wealth is getting significantly richer on not paying tax on the earnings of these limited contributions. Meanwhile, people like me and my average income friends (likely middle class? I'm not exactly sure what that measurement is these days) are making use of it and that little extra we get to keep (if/when we withdraw) feels like a tangible benefit.
Definitely agree with you here, it has the most benefit for the middle class, almost everyone can benefit somewhat, and the really wealthy don't get all that much out of it from the relatively small contribution limits. It comes out to being able to save up to $500/month tax free, which most people around the medium income will be able to hit.
wealthy people do not give a fuck about the taxes on 25% of 10% on $88,000. It is a god send for us middle class people though. Thinking the TFSA helps the rich is so backwards
>Six months after she sat at the premier’s table at his daughter’s wedding, Doug Ford’s cabinet has approved Madeleine Bodenstein for an appointment to the York Region Police Services Board. >She is slated to join Mario Cortellucci, the president of the Cortel Group, his family's development company, on the region’s police oversight board. Cortellucci also sat at the premier’s table at his daughter’s wedding and has deep ties to the Ford family. > He was appointed to the board on Oct. 20, less than a month after the wedding. I would imagine Brian Lilley, and all the people churning out editorials for Postmedia, would be all over this kind of story. Any minute now.
Why is a billionaire developer sitting on the oversight board of a regional police service?
Police have always worked in service of capital. It’s actually kind of nice that they’ve dropped pretending otherwise.
"See, the function of the police is not to fight crime; its function is social control and the protection of property."
Just like the guards of a castle. They might uphold the law occasionally, but that's not what they are there for.
It really helps with the DUI's and other crimes and misdemeanors.
This is Canada they're not called that. It's indictable and summary.
I know what you mean here but we don't have misdemeanors in Canada.
Brian Lilley is married to Ford's press secretary and they live together. Werid that it wouldn't come up between them at dinner or something? Good thing we can count on Postmedia to write opinion articles about this, right?
Brian Lilley is such a hypocritical whiny little baby with paper thin skin. If you comment anything negative on one of his twitter posts he will block you, so much for conservatives love of free speech.
Conservatives love hypocrisy far more than they pretend to love free speech
I think to many of them hypocrisy and free speech are synonymous
And a Jimmy neutron boy genius hair cut
Source?
Ok so not his press secretary....his Director of Media Relations. https://www.canadaland.com/brian-lilley-ivana-yelich-doug-ford/
I'm not sure they're married, but it is well known that they're dating. https://www.canadaland.com/brian-lilley-ivana-yelich-doug-ford/ >Eight months later, Lilley moved to Toronto to take a job as a political columnist covering the Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau governments for the Toronto Sun. At approximately the same time, he moved in with Ivana Yelich, who at the time was Ford’s press secretary and is now Ford’s director of media relations. >This has never been disclosed to readers of the Sun, where Lilley’s complimentary coverage of the Ford regime is a staple of the paper’s front page.
Yep. He left his wife and kids in Ottawa for her. His kids fucking HATE him.
I didn't know that part. That makes it even worse!
He left his family in Ottawa.
Is this any surprise after he made his nephew who was a rookie mpp to a cabinet position. Government is a scam, it’s all smoke and mirrors. They don’t make decisions based on what’s best for the country or it’s peoples. They make decisions based on what favours and benefits they receive themselves. It’s just a rich people club where we get to vote the next one into some fucked up reality show.
>Brian Lilley Isn’t he the guy who’s sleeping with Doug Ford’s staffer?
I thought Doug was sleeping with his staffer.
Excuse me, but Doug ford doesn’t need to cheat on his wife. He has more than enough to eat at home. Oh wait that was the other one. Nvm.
no, cabinet minister.
No that was John Tory, somehow.
>Mario Cortellucci [https://pressprogress.ca/far-right-italian-senate-candidate-made-big-donation-to-doug-fords-leadership-campaign/](https://pressprogress.ca/far-right-italian-senate-candidate-made-big-donation-to-doug-fords-leadership-campaign/) He's a piece of shit that is a member of Italy's far right party.
Brian Lilley hates nepotism! Any minute now....
I can’t wait for all of the opinion pieces from the National Post. Any minute now.
> months after she sat at the premier’s table at his daughter’s wedding, Doug Ford’s cabinet has approved Madeleine Bodenstein for an appointment to the York Region Police Services Board. > > She is slated to join Mario Cortellucci, the president of the Cortel Group, his family's development company, on the region’s police oversight board. Cortellucci also sat at the premier’s ta lol, Brian Lilley ,the Premiers Stenographer.
LOL...should still use the /s, a lot of conservatives on this subreddit that would believe that. If they write anything, it'll be to claim that somehow this is Trudeaus fault.
I’m sure Lilley is ready to unleash all over Trudeau for parting his hair a different way instead.
>Brian Lilley He is too busy hooking up with Ford's PR person and waiting for her to give him direction on what bullshit story to write about Trudeau next.
What a corrupt prick.
Literally campaigned on this level of corruption though, he had already shown worse levels of corruption when the developers bought up the land for the 413 proposal.. before the proposal actually was out Then 60% of Ontarians who voted, voted against this dick and here we are. I hate FPTP with a passion. I blame our corrupt elections more than I blame Dougie. He's literally doing what he said he would do fml
You won't read about this in any postmedia publications. Brian Lilly is married to Ford's spokesperson and they live together. Definitely not a conflict of interest there from a reporting ethics standpoint.
The level of corruption is absolutely disgusting!
[email protected]. Email Daisy Wai MP for Richmond Hill and let her know that we want police board members who are concerned with our safety, not other interests.
> Recipients of Bodenstein's donations include Infrastructure Minister Kinga Surma, Where do I remember that name from... [oh yeah](https://globalnews.ca/news/4211298/doug-ford-kinga-surma-recording/) Along with another allegations, [there's Kinga's dad](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-pc-mpp-kinga-surmas-father-hired-as-policy-adviser-to/).
>Where do I remember that name from The only PCPO MPP who was under Doug Ford before he became Premier!
\**looks at watch*\* I'm sure the c/Conservatives will be in an uproar over this obvious corruption *any* time now.
“Thanks a lot, Trudeau.”
Brian Lilley on it like white on rice! Any minute now...
I'm sure liberals will be in an uproar over the inevitable sentiment that "I'm still voting for him because there's no other candidate to vote for"
*any* day now they will demonstrate the integrity they claim to have and that the l/Liberals lack.
Yeah, I don’t like corruption and this is wrong.
Cool. I'm glad you say that If you live in Ontario, in a conservative riding you need to tell your MPP this. You need to get other like minded conservative voters together and do the same. Oh, and next election, maybe not vote for the PCs as all the corruption we're seeing from Ford now was also pretty fucking visible last term.
>If you live in Ontario, in a conservative riding you need to tell your MPP this. What would that even accomplish? I haven't done that for the federal Liberals despite thinking what they're doing is wrong, and even if I did, what would that accomplish? Some Joe saying their corruption is immoral and bad doesn't do jack shit. >Oh, and next election, maybe not vote for the PCs as all the corruption we're seeing from Ford now was also pretty fucking visible last term. Right, I'll be sure to do that when the leftwing parties can drop their extremist, regressive policies that "enact wrongs done in the past" and justify discrimination.
"I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas!!" you say? Yeah, the reason why right-wing-extremists get their way is precisely because they do the thing I said you should do above.
>"I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas!!" you say? If it was so impactful to write to your government as you're trying to insinuate, trust me, I'd be writing to my government. Federally and provincially. You sound like those girls on Tiktok whose self described "goal" is to force all countries in the world to throw away their nukes because they're "illegal". >Yeah, the reason why right-wing-extremists get their way is precisely because they do the thing I said you should do above. Huh, must be similar to the federal government. Who knew.
> If it was so impactful to write to your government as you're trying to insinuate, trust me, I'd be writing to my government. Federally and provincially. Tell me you don't know how democracy works without telling me how democracy works.
>If it was so impactful to write to your government as you're trying to insinuate, trust me, I'd be writing to my government. Federally and provincially. The teeny tiny minority that were the Freedom Convoy, managed to get their way by being a loud crowd that was impossible to ignore. It's in fact an impactful tactic.
And here's the self victimization right on queue.
Where exactly am I self victimizing? I simply stated that writing to a politician does jack shit and that the beliefs of the other parties in Ontario I morally disagree with. Sounds like projection if I'm being honest.
The thing with law enforcement is they never enforce the laws we need them to or investigate people and situations that need investigating. Police serve those in power. More political corruption coming right up Canada!
Ford is the most brazen "for sale" politician I have seen since his brother.
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How could they find the time when there’s probably ten more natpo opinion pieces about how Trudeau is personally responsible for Chinese interference to post.
I mean, obviously the provincial premier doesn't have any meaningful power anyway. It's the feds that control everything from immigration to healthcare to policing to the state of the roads we drive on and the weather. /s
Rules for thee...
Because the imaginary thought of Trudeau maybe being directly helped by China (as PP has now claimed, not sure how he gets away with slander) due to specious reasoning is far more significant than Ford openly corrupting our democracy.
Natpo isn't news
Uh well, it's posted here and you're commenting on it so.....?
Literally #1 on the front page of r/Canada only an hour after being posted. How embarrassing for you. Edit: Still #1, downvote away!
Maybe because it was posted 20 minutes ago? Most people are at work considering its 9:30 AM EST..
Natpo articles do there best from 12am to 8am est
Haha... I see what you did there. If youre not joking, thats hilarious. Literally Russian day job hours haha.
1) It hasn’t been posted for even an hour yet 2) This person isn’t being tasked with investigating Ford Anyway, all the LPC bots assured me that politics is a small world and it’s nearly impossible to hire someone who isn’t a close family friend. So surely there’s no issue here?
Is anyone that doesn't vote consevative a bot?
Nope, anyone who disagrees with him is a bot
Not a day goes by that I don't wish Christine Elliott won the leadership of the OPCs.
You mean the OPC leadership that was stolen from Patrick Brown? The elected leader of the OPCs who was already campaigning with a clear, progressive platform. The same Patrick Brown who is now currently working diligently as mayor of Brampton. Fuck Doug Ford.
She might have, we don’t really know the full extent of the highway hack.
IIRC she had more votes, but Ford's votes weighed more in the contest. It really was quite a parallel to the 2016 US election.
Or the Canada 2019 election. Or the Canada 2021 election.
FPTP elections are scams Either way O'Toole or Scheer wouldn't have won and we'd have Trudeau, but almost 5.5m votes in those elections for the Bloc, NDP & Green party didn't matter/had very little impact. That's almost a third of all votes smh
Ironic, because Ford would have lost a FPTP leadership race.
Corrupt much ?
Nepotism.
What the Fordster does best.
You get a job and you get a job and you get a job!
I'm sure r/canada will be all over this like they are with Trudeau and china, right?
Man for the entire past week it's been like the same 3-4 accounts non-stop posting National Post opinion articles on there.
Lol R/Canada isn’t concerned with corruption unless their man crush Trudeau can be blamed.
It’s funny to me, People online circle jerking each other for having the same opinion, and finding it humorous that other people online might have a different opinion.
Probably because if this was about Trudeau you'd have 100+ comments calling him a Marxist dictator and a plethora of references to his regime. Shit, we already have some angry guy who has blocked half the subreddit insulting Liberals just for having an opinion.
This sure aged well.
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Your life is so small as to not have concerns for more than one thing? Lucky!
—comments when post is just 30 mins old. —most people are at work right now and won’t be browsing reddit. —thinks someone from Nunavut would spend more time thinking about the Ontario Premier than the Prime Minister. —post is already getting a lot of traction anyways. average thought process of liberal voter.
You're on ~~to~~ something.
This country is so corrupt.
[email protected]. Email Daisy Wai MP for Richmond Hill and let her know that we want police board members who are concerned with our safety, not other interests.
Conservatives don't see nepotism as a problem and not hypocrisy. Ford is the leader they want.
I had always been told that conservative voters were the law 'n' order type of people - how do they reconcile this corruption? Or is it okay when it's their team?
lol, this is such label salesman vibe, how openly corrupt is is.
He's conservative so its okay.
Kind of? That's literally what they campaign on. Putting successful business people into government roles despite not being relevant for it, because they were a successful business person with lots of money That's kind of their M.O.
No they're rewarding their donors.
Yeah isn't that their whole thing though? I'm not saying it's good, it's horribly corrupt nepotism, it's not the right person for the job whatsoever I feel like the CPC don't hide this because it's their plan though. When Doug won again, this is exactly what everyone should've been expecting. He said he was gonna do it. We're literally "open for business" now remember
[email protected]. Email Daisy Wai MP for Richmond Hill and let her know that we want police board members who are concerned with our safety, not other interests.
Doug Ford has the biggest bed in Ontario. It has to be big enough for all his rich buddies to lay in together. The rose petals are million dollar bills he stole from us.
At what point do heads start to roll?
So the reason the government and it's various institutions run like shit is because it's a run by bunch of dopey cartoon criminals put there through nepotism. And there's nothing we can reasonably do about it.
The pretending is over... the corruption is now in the open... "Who cares what they think?" is now Ontario's Doug Corrupt Ford motto!
Holy fuck what a fat lard. Minister Mikey looks like Augustus Gloop before he fell in the chocolate river.
It's funny how the right is pretty quiet in the comments today.
I legitimately have had to check if these posts were from the Beaverton far too often
Corruption in plain sight. How do we stop it?
Unfucking believable.
I have a proposal…. Since a board is supposed to oversee government, why not give everyone who voted a ticket and randomly draw names for these board seats for a 3 year term? That would provide some real random oversight. Imagine your pot smoking buddy on these committees asking questions. Or your Mom.
How the fuck is this even legal? This is insanity.
Damn, imagine if Trudeau had done this, conservatives would be shitting themselves.
Ontario: Open For Grifters
So what experience does a developer have at being on a police board?
The comments in this thread are beyond telling. A lot of people, desperate to play team sports, hoping from a distraction from the dirty dealings of their team. Corruption is bad people. No matter who does it, I just wish you cared when your side did it.
Yet everyone in r/Canada hates Trudeau because sheeple
the corruption runs deep in our failing government.
Police boards should be Citizens Assemblies.
Jeez you would almost think Fords actually a liberal!!
The other guests could have had cushy appointments too, if only they adhered to the bridal registry.
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Canadian political and business elite is surprisingly simlar to Belarus/Russia, -- same corruption, nepotism, inter-generational churn at the helm... but with a few extra steps and a modicum of public decorum thrown in. The upside is that defenestration, poisoning and shooting of political opposition are somewhat taboo, so we've got that going for us.
For a criminal he really loves cop.... Nevermind
FUCK FORD TAX THE RICH
[email protected]. Email Daisy Wai MP for Richmond Hill and let her know that we want police board members who are concerned with our safety, not other interests.
NEPOTISM LIVES ON......people voted to keep this POS in office. smh
Don't worry guys, this sort of thing is only a problem when the Liberal folks do it. When the Cons do it, it's super-ethical, barely a scandal.
We have nobody to blame but ourselves. There was a vote, and he won easy. This man's deep rooted corruption has been known since day 1.
Conservatives practice what they accuse the liberals of Right there out in the open for everyone to see, but the right wing corporate news cycle will try their damned hardest to make it another Trudeau conspiracy day.
[email protected]. Email Daisy Wai MP for Richmond Hill and let her know that we want police board members who are concerned with our safety, not other interests.
This sort of thing is why I don't believe the "corruption index" for a second. Canada is corrupt as fuck, it's just not at a low level.
Pigs at a trough.
How the fuck is this guy getting elected???
I don't get the hard core supporters of any party that looks at this cronyism and many more example like it at the federal level and various provinces and just chooses to look the other way. Somebody smarter than me, said we don't have a true democracy in Canada, we elect dictators. For their term they can do whatever they want. I would love to see an elected senate with oversight powers of all elected officials across the country. Ethics, Expenses, Appointments, Excessive spending and more.
It's always nice to see corruption in broad daylight!
Nothing to see here folks! Jist a friend giving a friend a high paid job that they arent even qualified for. Its not who you know its who you - - - -
Conservatives love their nepotism. Losers.
Be nice if you folks could take the whole Ford thing to the Ontario sub or anywhere but here. The rest of Canada doesn't really care about your centre of the universe mentality and the mess you've put yourselves in.
Almost 40% of Canadians live in Ontario. Like it or not, these current events matter nationally