Lost in the COVID haze: Ford’s record in Ontario seems largely forgotten by voters

If nothing else, the cabinet mandate letters Doug Ford is working so hard to keep secret might have reminded Ontarians of what the Ford government is actually all about.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford still depicts himself as being for the little guy, but most of his government’s actual policies are geared to his upscale supporters and business backers, writes Les Whittington. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

May 25, 2022

OTTAWA—Whatever is in those mandate letters, it must be really politically embarrassing or damaging. In the summer of 2018, shortly after Premier Doug Ford took office, CBC Toronto asked that the mandate letters to his 23 cabinet colleagues be made public under freedom of information. The Progres...

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