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sph3re

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Oct 28, 2017
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Doug Ford Responds To Basic Income Question By Accusing Politician Of Making A Bomb Threat

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
 
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sph3re

sph3re

One Winged Slayer
Avenger
Oct 28, 2017
8,398
It's like watching a 5 year old try and imitate their father

Except their father is Trump and they're trying to imitate their penchant for deflection

I didn't think Ontario was this stupid.

This guy is scum.

I'm just waiting for legal weed, then I'll be too high to care

But until then, back to this screaming hellscape that is Ontario
 

JLP101

Member
Oct 25, 2017
2,742
My friend voted for this guy because people who vote for NDP and Liberals only want free handouts :(
 

Pop-O-Matic

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
12,861
"lol you dumb Americans electing a fascist dipstick. Nothing like that could ever happen in the glorious land of Canada" ~Every Canadian on GAF/ERA, November 9, 2016-July 7, 2018
 

killerrin

Member
Oct 25, 2017
9,237
Toronto
Yeah, we're pretty terrible here in Ontario. Hopefully the Electoral Reform Proponents in BC are using us as an example of what FPTP does to a place.

"lol you dumb Americans electing a fascist dipstick. Nothing like that could ever happen in the glorious land of Canada" ~Every Canadian on GAF/ERA, November 9, 2016-July 7, 2018

Only the Ontarians, which to be honest we always sucked politically. The rest of Canada pissing on the USA is totally valid in their remarks though.
 

joecanada

Member
Oct 28, 2017
3,651
Canada
"lol you dumb Americans electing a fascist dipstick. Nothing like that could ever happen in the glorious land of Canada" ~Every Canadian on GAF/ERA, November 9, 2016-July 7, 2018
That's not a true post at all. Because Alberta loves people like Preston manning , Harper and now the wildrose aka tea party. And most of us knew this forever . That it happened in Ontario is more surprising
 

killerrin

Member
Oct 25, 2017
9,237
Toronto
That it happened in Ontario is more surprising
No it isn't. Not in the slightest. Ontario sucks at politics.

We hold grudges against the NDP for the Bob Rae government in the 90's as an excuse to never vote NDP Provincially or Federally, ignoring Peterson before him and Harris/Eves afterwards. Our internal politics is one of constantly being at war with one another. The north hates the south. The south doesn't give a shit about the north. The rural areas hate the cities. The cities hate the rural areas. The Cities all hate each other, but not as much as they hate rural areas. The Suburbs hate their cores, Cores hate their suburbs. Everyone hates Toronto, including Toronto. Toronto loves itself and thinks its the center of the universe. Ottawa sits off in the corner pretending its not part of the province. The Conservatives are stuck in cut and slash mode, The Liberals govern like the Conservatives, until they are about to lose then they pretend to be the NDP. All our parties hate each other's guts, but the Liberals and the Conservatives hate the NDP more and during all their election campaigns are only united in fucking over the NDP by spending a week or two every time they begin surging in the polls attacking them. Nobody ever tries working together because if its a Minority they'll just wait a year then call another election, and if its a Majority the ruling party won't even care for consultations.

It's a complete fucking mess and a game of seeing how many times everyone else can one-up each other before the next election cycle. We're the most dysfunctional province by kilometers. Really this province should have been split up decades ago.
 
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xbhaskarx

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
5,143
NorCal
What is going on in this timeline....

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https://www.thespec.com/opinion-sto...and-donald-trump-are-cut-from-the-same-froth/
 
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sph3re

sph3re

One Winged Slayer
Avenger
Oct 28, 2017
8,398
No it isn't. Not in the slightest. Ontario sucks at politics.

We hold grudges against the NDP for the Bob Rae government in the 90's as an excuse to never vote NDP Provincially or Federally, ignoring Peterson before him and Harris/Eves afterwards. Our internal politics is one of constantly being at war with one another. The north hates the south. The south doesn't give a shit about the north. The rural areas hate the cities. The cities hate the rural areas. The Cities all hate each other, but not as much as they hate rural areas. The Suburbs hate their cores, Cores hate their suburbs. Everyone hates Toronto, including Toronto. Toronto loves itself and thinks its the center of the universe. Ottawa sits off in the corner pretending its not part of the province. The Conservatives are stuck in cut and slash mode, The Liberals govern like the Conservatives, until they are about to lose then they pretend to be the NDP. All our parties hate each other's guts, but the Liberals and the Conservatives hate the NDP more and during all their election campaigns are only united in fucking over the NDP by spending a week or two every time they begin surging in the polls attacking them. Nobody ever tries working together because if its a Minority they'll just wait a year then call another election, and if its a Majority the ruling party won't even care for consultations.

It's a complete fucking mess and a game of seeing how many times everyone else can one-up each other before the next election cycle. We're the most dysfunctional province by kilometers. Really this province should have been split up decades ago.
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GuessMyUserName

Avenger
Oct 27, 2017
5,156
Toronto
Multi-party systems ain't all sunshine when you still got FPTP, it's how we were fucked with Harper for a decade and it's still bringing us down as PCs remain perfectly viable threats with only a third of Canadians liking them. Throw in provincial elections with near nonexistent local polling data leaves many to think voting the old guard is the only chance of winning despite the rest of the left switching the better candidate. And then federally the issue of coalitions being treated as a naughty word.

Canada's electoral system is pure garbage.