Doug Ford Responds To Basic Income Question By Accusing Politician Of Making A Bomb Threat
via HuffingtonPost
Blow me up with a landmine if old
via HuffingtonPost
OTTAWA — Ontario Premier Doug Ford sidestepped a question about his government's decision to cancel a basic income pilot project by accusing an NDP MPP of making a threat to hurl an explosive in Queen's Park on Thursday.
NDP MPP Judith Monteith-Farrell had asked the premier in question period when participants of the now-cancelled project were informed of the project's end and if they were told when the last income supplement cheques would be issued.
But the premier did not directly answer Monteith-Farrell's question, opting to take aim at NDP MPP Taras Natyshak by raising a "serious issue."
"We have one of the members from Essex just tell us he's going to throw a landmine and blow this place up," Ford said. "I think the cheese has slipped off the cracker with this guy."
Natyshak did not rise on a point of order to correct Ford or challenge the premier's accusation. But his regular seatmate in the second row, Algoma—Manitoulin MPP Michael Mantha said he didn't hear his colleague make any threat about bringing a landmine into the legislature.
"My bigger concern is that this is the second attempt by the premier in regards to making allegations against a couple of our caucus members," Mantha told HuffPost Canada in an interview.
Ford accused veteran opposition MPP Gilles Bisson of being "disgusting" for mocking the accent of a PC member. Horwath defended her House leader and accused the premier of lying, saying Bisson did not make the offensive comment.
Blow me up with a landmine if old