Premier Doug Ford's Ontario

[adma]

Not sure if this has really been raised, but...interesting. (Gee, I thought the PCs were flush in cash and great money managers. A label-making fool and his money, I suppose...)

Ontario NDP ended 2020 with big money lead as Conservatives mired in debt

www.canadanewscentral.ca

 

[Richard White]

Not sure if this has really been raised, but...interesting. (Gee, I thought the PCs were flush in cash and great money managers. A label-making fool and his money, I suppose...)

Ontario NDP ended 2020 with big money lead as Conservatives mired in debt

www.canadanewscentral.ca

I am actually not surprised. The NDP is always calling their supporters asking for money (literally almost every day). It is why I gave up being a supporter, I did not want to deal with the daily fundraising calls or the robo calls inviting me to a town hall meeting or a protest at Queens Park.

What surprises me more is that they don't have any debt. For years the coffers were bare, the war chest was empty. I am honestly surprised they don't a bunch of mortgages on properties.

 

[PinkLucy]

It’s not just the NDP. I joined the PC party just to vote for not Doug. My membership has lapsed by now, but I get constant emails from them asking for money and have done ever since I signed up.

 

[Northern Light]

Not sure if this has really been raised, but...interesting. (Gee, I thought the PCs were flush in cash and great money managers. A label-making fool and his money, I suppose...)

Ontario NDP ended 2020 with big money lead as Conservatives mired in debt

www.canadanewscentral.ca

Debt aside, there's some polling data in there...........

From the above:

Now AR tends to report results more favourable than average for the Conservatives as well.

So with margin of error, that looks close to a tie.

Intriguing that the Libs seem to have fallen off that much.

Could be an outlier poll.

 

[Northern Light]

I'm hearing there's a cabinet shuffle today.

Confirmation pending.

Looks pretty certain.

- Cabinet has been cancelled today
- Ministerial chiefs of staff have scheduled a meeting for Noon.

Credit to QP Observer for the above tidbits.

 

[zang]

I'm hearing there's a cabinet shuffle today.

Confirmation pending.

Looks pretty certain.

- Cabinet has been cancelled today
- Ministerial chiefs of staff have scheduled a meeting for Noon.

Credit to QP Observer for the above tidbits.

Fingers crossed on Lecce (and Oosterhoff as assistant) getting the axe... But, I suspect my glee at that idea means it's likely they're considered superstars amongst the ranks.

 

[DSC]

Fingers crossed on Lecce (and Oosterhoff as assistant) getting the axe... But, I suspect my glee at that idea means it's likely they're considered superstars amongst the ranks.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king!

 

[Jonny5]

Not sure if this has really been raised, but...interesting. (Gee, I thought the PCs were flush in cash and great money managers. A label-making fool and his money, I suppose...)

Ontario NDP ended 2020 with big money lead as Conservatives mired in debt

www.canadanewscentral.ca

It does say they the PCs have cash in the bank gving a net-positive cash balance of $2.1M, so I'm guessing the debt is something they are choosing to carry, perhaps because the interest on it is very low?

 

[Northern Light]

Ok, I have to say, if Stephen Del Duca is one of the driest, dullest, speakers imaginable............his Liberals do put up good Tweet now and again; this had me laugh out loud:

 

[Richard White]

I'm hearing there's a cabinet shuffle today.

Confirmation pending.

Looks pretty certain.

- Cabinet has been cancelled today
- Ministerial chiefs of staff have scheduled a meeting for Noon.

Credit to QP Observer for the above tidbits.

Anyone got snap election on their bingo card?

 

[DSC]

Anyone got snap election on their bingo card?

Not me, Ford is not coming out of the covid era very well and he has no excuse for breaking the fixed election date law as the Tories have a large majority. In addition, why would even Ford do something as divisive as using the notwithstanding clause if he was about to call an election well within the former limits on 3rd party advertising.

 

[Richard White]

why would even Ford do something as divisive as using the notwithstanding clause if he was about to call an election well within the former limits on 3rd party advertising.

Curtail the ability for 3rd party groups to spend money and call a snap election before it can be overturned. No doubt there are already people working to see if Section 3 of the charter covers this whole debacle.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Fingers crossed on Lecce (and Oosterhoff as assistant) getting the axe... But, I suspect my glee at that idea means it's likely they're considered superstars amongst the ranks.

Rod Phillips as Minister of Tourism and Film Production.

AoD

 

[tiffer24]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1405940877969838085

 

[PinkLucy]

Here is more. https://www.thestar.com/politics/pr...d-dumps-five-minister-in-cabinet-shuffle.html