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The premier said he broke a promise when he decided to open the Greenbelt for housing development.

“It was a mistake to open the Greenbelt. It was a mistake to establish a process that moved too fast,” Ford said.

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[–] MapleEngineer 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remember the gas plant scandal?

It seems so quaint now in the face of Doug Ford's open corruption.

Vote better, Ontario.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

To build on this: show up to vote next time, Ontario.

[–] Dearche 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You know, you say that, but the entire Toronto area voted against him. The entire region was solid red, yet somehow this clown got voted in, which was weirdly funny when I saw that the area around Thunder Bay voted against him as well. The part of Ontario I'm worried about is Ottawa, and how the entire city outside of the downtown core voted for him.

Honestly, when I saw the vote map after the last election, the results were scary as someone who was seriously against Ford. Don't people keep seeing that most of his efforts keep concentrating in and around Toronto and flat out ignore all the people who voted for him? It's like only Toronto and Norther Ontario's noticed this about him.

[–] ininewcrow 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hate and right wing rhetoric is what usually drives rural Ontario to vote conservative ... all you have to do to get people in small town Ontario to vote conservative is give them a boogie man, tell them all that the other party is corrupt, that they support cities and conservatives are for the little guy and call everyone 'folks' ... then just have your millionaire supporters run round the clock advertising everywhere to drive home the message and voila, you've got government for four years ... screw everyone for three years, then pay attention for a year and do it all over again.

[–] MapleEngineer 3 points 1 year ago

I vote every time. I didn't vote for Steve Clark.

Everyone needs to vote next time.

[–] SirFancypants 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"It was a mistake to establish a process that moved too fast,” Ford said.

Pretty tacit admission that he'll try again. He's just sorry he got caught.

[–] nik282000 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was a mistake to move fast enough for voters to notice, I should have boiled them slowly like a frog.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

@nik282000 @SirFancypants 💯

His "apology" did not rebuild shattered trust.
He's toast.

#dougFordIsCorrupt #DougFordIsALiar

[–] Fiivemacs 21 points 1 year ago

Ford was the mistake..

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Daily reminder - fuck Doug Ford. He's a corrupt, slimy, lying piece of shit. The only thing he cares about is him and his buddies getting richer.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Ford was the mistake.

[–] ImplyingImplications 9 points 1 year ago

"As a first step to earn back your trust, I’ll be reversing the changes we made and won’t make any changes to the Greenbelt in the future.”

As a first step to earn back your trust, I'll dump the person I was cheating on you with and won't bang them again in the future!

[–] nik282000 5 points 1 year ago

Make him walk the entire length of the land he was trying to develop!

[–] TemporaryBoyfriend 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder what other scandal this is covering for... Normally they make big announcements only to distract from other malfeasance.

[–] TemporaryBoyfriend 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And here's why:

https://mstdn.ca/@gemelliz/111105853082374690

I told you it was a distraction...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Glad Doug understands now.

[–] whoisearth 17 points 1 year ago

But does he understood he fucking lied in the first place? He's still a shitheel