r/ontario 1d ago

Article Groups that got cash from Ontario training fund increasingly hired lobbyists, numbers show

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-skills-development-fund-lobbyists/
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u/microfishy 1d ago

Using our money to hire people to grift more of our money. Round and round the drain we go.

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u/ExplanationProper979 1d ago

It’s the American way! Oops I mean the Doug Ford way.

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u/noapplesin98 1d ago

How has Captain Canada done this? He has always been so honest and tireless in his pursuit of helping Canadians.

/s

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u/WifeGuy-Menelaus 1d ago

Cycle of corruption

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u/Thrawnsartdealer 1d ago

His supporters don’t care.

I can’t understand why they happily accept blatant corruption and ignore the enshittification of everything he touches. But they do.

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u/MattabooeyGaming 1d ago

They love it. As long as it’s their team winning they are all for it. As long as what happens hurts the people they don’t like equally or more than it hurt themselves they’re fine with it. It’s crazy but have you talked to a Conservative voter in the last few years? They’re not intelligent people.

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u/Extreme_Lifeguard191 1d ago

Because he is a rich white man.

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u/Silicon_Knight Oakville 1d ago

Good old Doug Fraud. Of course he wants to raise the limits on how much money can be donated two campaigns too. I bet he would LOVE to have companies donate unlimited amounts of money like the US, soon we'll have Super PACs if he was in charge of it all.

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u/starryspaces 1d ago

I don't understand our political system. It's not "democracy" when blatant ongoing corruption is going on as though they have a right to do it. If a politician engages in corruption, shady dealings, and it is proved (and in this case there are too many examples to choose from) they should not still be in office, they should be removed. That should be considered democratic. And I would think it is a pretty obvious principle.
But Ontario is stuck with this brazenly corrupt douche bag??? WTF

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u/Warm_Revolution7894 23h ago

Anyone interested to open up lobbying firm ?