Drug Fraud's attacks on education and healthcare begin in earnest

[sabotabby]

 Ford has advised a hiring freeze for school boards (link goes to Reddit, sorry! But the Star article is behind a paywall), despite claiming that nurses and teachers were exempt from the hiring freeze back in the summer. I for one am shocked—shocked, I say—that he would lie about this. Meanwhile, one hospital has already cut jobs, which as we all know is a great way to reduce hallway medicine by ensuring that hospitals are dangerous staph infection vectors and patients choose to die at home, if they're lucky enough to have one. Otherwise, I'm sure clothing donation bins will do nicely.

Meanwhile, the Ontario College of Teachers, which as far as I know does nothing for the fees they extract from every teacher in the province beyond releasing a glossy waste of trees, wrapped in plastic, that publishes educator misbehaviour and otherwise sits on top of everyone's toilets, is now officially an arm of the Ford government. So not only are we paying taxes for off-the-books RVs, teachers pay an extra fee to be screwed harder.

And the Charter challenge against the Tories was dismissed, with an interesting legal argument: There was nothing that prevented teachers from talking about consent, gender and sexuality, and so on. This, despite Ford's threat to punish teachers who did so.

So this morning is going great, thanks for asking.

Comments

[notasupervillain]

Well. Trying to find a silver lining in the pile of shit. Hm.

At least the corruption is blatant, unlike Mike Harris who was a "respectable" sort of evil?

[sabotabby]

That's what I keep hoping.

But my profession never recovered from Harris. Nor did, say, the welfare system. Or transit. I actually think if things get apocalyptic enough, Ford could be gone in one term, but he can do a lot of damage in a few years.

[notasupervillain]

He can do less damage in one term than in two. That's the most we can hope for.

[dewline]

Harris made sure that those things wouldn't recover from his premiership, didn't he.

A New Conservative is a saboteur. (I was going to use "vandal", but realize that that can be rightly taken as an ethnic insult.)

[sabotabby]

The playbook is:

"The thing isn't working!"

"We must underfund the thing!"

"The thing is broken; let's privatize it!"

[armiphlage]

Harris not only cancelled funding to the LGBT Youth Line, he made them PAY BACK six month's worth of grants, "unless those funds were used to pay for shuttering the organization".

[sabotabby]

I didn't know about that. They're even more evil (and petty) than I remember.

[armiphlage]

And here's the thing: I went to a party soon after that and met Mike Harris's gay nephew, who said his uncle wasn't homophobic at all, but just acted that way to pander to voters. He's not even evil out of conviction he's doing the right thing, but just evil for convenience! Which somehow seems even worse, despite identical outcomes.

[sabotabby]

I hear Dougie is the same. I find it worse too.

[armiphlage]

Ford the 1st cancelled Transit City, putting things backwards by a decade.

[sabotabby]

Yup. I'm still bitter about that.

[cloudsinvenice]

That sounds absolutely enraging and I'm sorry it's going on.

[sabotabby]

I had to drop some bombshells at today's union meeting. It was depressing.

[lapinlunaire]

This is some bullshit. I'm so sorry you're dealing with this :(

[sabotabby]

Me too. Thinking fleeing the province might not be a bad option.

[minoanmiss]

... shit.

[sabotabby]

Yeah.

[smhwpf]

I have only swear words in response, apart from to say I'm so sorry, for you and everyone else who has to suffer this shit.

[sabotabby]

It's the kids who'll suffer the most. Thanks to the last Tory government, they have fewer years to make up for a spotty education, and this one will give them even less wiggle room.