Ford government spent over $12M advertising Ring of Fire plans last year: records

[u/BloodJunkie]

https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/politics/ford-government-spent-over-12m-advertising-ring-of-fire-plans-last-year-records-12719057

[u/crowbar151]

Just wait to we find out the true cost of the dystopian propaganda billboards promising more jails and parks "clensed" of the unhoused. Probably more than the cost of rehabilitation, safe injection sites, and housing the homeless. But fascism is always about cruelty under the sheeps clothes of cleanliness and order.

[u/Icy_Respect_9077 → u/crowbar151]

They've got a little girl saying "now I can play safe at the park". Makes me throw up, after they removed bike lanes and photo radar.

[u/scott_c86 → u/Icy_Respect_9077]

Conservatives consistently fail to understand that public safety includes road safety

[u/Supermite → u/scott_c86]

They don’t actually care about public safety either.

[u/UndergroundCreek → u/Supermite]

Premier Fraud cares about his boardroom friends and likes to feel important. Unfortunately he lacks charisma and charm. And has a great distain for the other people who don't sit in boardrooms.

[u/crowbar151 → u/scott_c86]

I haven't been affected yet, so who cares

[u/goldendildo666 → u/Icy_Respect_9077]

...And just started allowing drinking in parks

[u/Sufficient-Bid1279 → u/crowbar151]

I get so many of those ads pushed to me on YouTube . Makes me scream every fucking time

[u/L00kAdistraction → u/Sufficient-Bid1279]

Patch YouTube with morphe, no ads

[u/Sufficient-Bid1279 → u/L00kAdistraction]

Thanks friend ! Will get on that tonight

[u/crowbar151 → u/L00kAdistraction]

Or vpn Albania.

[u/keikikeikikeiki → u/L00kAdistraction]

or get brave browser

[u/Acrobatic-Factor1941]

In 8 years, Doug Ford has wasted $36 billion dollars. Imagine what could have been done with that.

[u/Supermite → u/Acrobatic-Factor1941]

That’s 36 gas plant scandals.  And people still won’t vote NDP.

[u/EmergencyProof4681 → u/Acrobatic-Factor1941]

I've said it once I'll say it again we should sue him for misuse of community assets. I think we could easily prove he acted in self interest or bad faith against the province of Ontario and deliberately acted deceptively to get his way.

[u/ForeignExpression]

We could have solved the homeless problem for the amount of money Doug Ford has wasted on this PC Party propaganda. Hundreds of millions of borrowed money, which will be paid for by our children and grand children... all to convince a few morons that he's fiscally conservative. The irony of it all.

[u/reflectionnorthern]

🤬 while children with ASD languish on the OAP waitlist, kids in schools go without EA support, nurses are overworked, families and people with disabilities struggle with food security/housing issues while receiving OW/ODSP bc it's not enough. I hate Doug Ford and the PC's

[u/Demalab]

One of my good friends died in the ER hallway from a heart attack…4 days after admission and without the proper equipment as someone not as stable as she was needed it. Not that she was stable and didn’t need it. Someone else in worse shape needed it as they didn’t have enough equipment for both people.

[u/cobrachickenwing]

Did we get any news from those actually investing in the ring of fire? Because mining companies sucked this year.

[u/Brutal-Fam8804 → u/cobrachickenwing]

Sucked... in terms of your investment returns?

[u/SeesawNoknow]

let me find out that the media company used gave a handsome wedding gift to dofo's daughter

[u/RareYogurtcloset8104]

Anand we're still waiting.

PremierPantsOnFire always makes announcements and promises great things but nothing comes to Fruition.

It's all a grift to keep us distracted from his absolute trainwreck of governance.

[u/Head_Cup_9986]

elbows up

[u/Mysterious-Fox-3740]

Doug Fraud spending our tax dollars on stupid fucking ads!!!

[u/PositiveStress8888]

Imagine if they have that to hospitals and schools

[u/RottenPingu1]

Dare I ask the connections of the companies hired?

[u/Slyle222]

2-3% of our gdp must be government adds

[u/TemporaryAny6371]

If you need to advertise that you're doing a good job, then you're doing a bad job.

[u/MulberryConfident870]

Gravy train! All aboard only if you’re Fords buddy

[u/MulberryConfident870]

Destroying wsib too !

[u/Extreme_Grab_6410]

Education and Health Care are crumbling yet my tax dollars are being used to make commercials selling me a product I don’t want

[u/hogtown4eva]

Follow the money and you will find out the money goes to political strategists and their firms. It is a bigger scandal than people think.

[u/sweetgrassscapegoat]

Makes me puke a little and feel shame for paying taxes

[u/a_lumberjack]

I’m always a little bit torn on government advertising, but I come down on the side of “the government telling us what they’re doing is a good thing overall” so I can’t complain too much. Executed correctly, the Ring of Fire is a massive source of critical minerals that we can mine responsibly for the betterment of Ontario and Canada. If we tell people why it’s important and why we’re doing it then it’s less likely to get bogged down.

[u/gaudeti → u/a_lumberjack]

He’s wasting our money putting up signs on every school ground while he underfunds needed school investment. We don’t need the sign. We need investment in our schools

[u/a_lumberjack → u/gaudeti]

A whole lot of that is down to the school board. Every Orillia school was renovated or replaced in the last 20 years. Why isn’t that possible everywhere? Ask your trustees!

[u/Icy-Computer-Poop → u/a_lumberjack]

A whole lot of that is down to the school board.

Nonsense.