Ford should do the right thing, show people he cares

Doug Ford should reconsider cuts to French-language services affecting Ontario’s 600,000 francophones, including the cancellation of plans to create Ontario’s first French-language university in Toronto, a promise he renewed during his recent election campaign.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Caroline Mulroney, Ontario's attorney general and minister responsible for francophone affairs. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY JEAN T. FOURNIER

January 14, 2019

OTTAWA—Ontario Premier Doug Ford should do the right thing and show people he cares. He should reconsider cuts to French-language services affecting Ontario’s 600,000 francophones, including the cancellation of plans to create Ontario’s first French-language university in Toronto (a promis...

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