SunriseChampion
Senior Member
Imagine the Ford political mantra goes from Subways. Subways. Subways. (Folks) to Greece. Greece. Greece. (Folks)Dunno, ask Dougie.
Imagine the Ford political mantra goes from Subways. Subways. Subways. (Folks) to Greece. Greece. Greece. (Folks)Dunno, ask Dougie.
Imagine the Ford political mantra goes from Subways. Subways. Subways. (Folks) to Greece. Greece. Greece. (Folks)
So, not to disrupt the lovely dissertation on sub-sovereign debt, but here's some interesting stuff that's Ford related:
He's on record for saying he's made lots of charitable donations, including $50k for parks, his entire Councillor salary etc.. But his name doesn't show anywhere on United Way or other honour rolls. So poked around a bit.
He said he'd donate $50k to Toronto Parks in July 2013. There is a charitable foundation for this called www.torontoparksandtrees.ca. In 2013 they didn't report any donations, but in 2014 they reported $50k from another charity and $410,275 in tax-receiptable donations. In 2015 the foundation recorded $143k in receiptable donations.
So the $50k looks like it could be from Doug, but that means he donated through a difference charity and it took at least 6 months to get to the parks. On the second count the $410,275 is roughly similar to his salary but all backloaded to his final year (once he announced a run for mayor).
Probably worth poking around a bit to see what's going on.
In the four years he was councillor, Doug never did anything remotely charitable without crowing about it in front of the cameras. If he had given away that much money, you can be sure it would've at the very least involved a giant novelty cheque.
Hey, we're talking unhealthy, overweight, out of shape druggies here:Imagine the Ford political mantra goes from Subways. Subways. Subways. (Folks) to Greece. Greece. Greece. (Folks)
Or sprinkling the greens in a photo-op. On another note - I have noticed he want to cancel the foreign buyer tax - guess he is going for the ethno, specifically Chinese vote with this one.
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Cheap bastard. I want Bordens. I'm still not going to vote for you, but you could at least try.Or sprinkling the greens in a photo-op.
Me not being able to afford to live here even though I grew up here is what's discriminatory.Brilliant idea. The foreign buyer tax is bad for business, not to mention discriminatory. It should be scrapped.
Regarding the debt to GDP question, what sometimes gets lost in the shuffle is that we’re a federal state. As Ontario taxpayers, we’re responsible for our share (however defined) of the federal debt, as well as our provincial debt. As of 2016, federal debt was approx 31% of Canadian GDP and Ontario debt was around 38% of Ontario GDP. Tricky Ontario accounting moves aside, the combined 69% isn’t that bad by international standards. Worse than Australia’s 41% but certainly better than a lot of countries, including the US. Of course, one could argue that running a deficit to fund current spending, in an economy that’s not in recession, isn’t a great idea. And it’s likely that interest rates will continue to rise over the next three or four years, which is of concern for a province that has been rolling around $30 billion of debt a year (refinancing maturing issues plus financing the deficit plus new bonds issued to fund capital spending, which isn’t counted as part of the deficit). Presumably this jumps to something like $40 billion a year now. As a boomer, I can sleep well at night with this set of numbers, but the math isn’t great for millennials if we’ve permanently embedded a deficit of 1% of GDP in good times, rising to 3% to 5% of GDP in recessions.
Hahaha.
Ford’s platform would lower hospital wait times, drastically cut hydro rates, reduce the size and cost of government — but he promises all that will be done through almost $6 billion of to-be-identified “efficiencies,” not job losses.
https://www.thestar.com/news/queens...-costs-size-of-government-but-no-layoffs.html
"Bad for business?" What kind of business exactly?Brilliant idea. The foreign buyer tax is bad for business, not to mention discriminatory. It should be scrapped.
Otherwise, you're just hilarious. Or is that what you're intending?
Hahaha.
Ford’s platform would lower hospital wait times, drastically cut hydro rates, reduce the size and cost of government — but he promises all that will be done through almost $6 billion of to-be-identified “efficiencies,” not job losses.
https://www.thestar.com/news/queens...-costs-size-of-government-but-no-layoffs.html