What happens is, the gas tax might come off, so for Ford and Del Ducas scheme, that might mean about $12 a month for drivers for six months, which is not a lot, but that five cents can just easily be taken up by the gas companies increasing the prices to be able to get the benefit.So the benefit of the gas tax reduction that Ford and Del Duca are selling is very likely going to go into the unregulated pockets of big gas and oil.. Supporters of the change criticized the Liberal government and Elections Ontario for failing to properly inform voters of what the referendum meant. Doug Ford (coming June 1), (Liberals) sell off Hydro One. More than half (six) of Horwaths false claims had to do with soaring gas prices and the parties plans to lower them. However, it is true that about five months after Ford was sworn into power, Metrolinx removed 24 electric vehicle charging stations from GO station parking lots across the GTHA, ending a pilot project that was funded by the previous Liberal government.
The Toronto Star and thestar.com, each property of Toronto Star true: The report was presented to the McGuinty government in 2008 and followed expert consultations commissioned after the so-called Summer of the Gun in 2005. While it is not true that the Ford government cut autism funding as a whole, its true that his changes to the system have cut funding for some kids.
Now, there are more than 50,000 kids waiting for autism support more than double the 23,000 on the waitlist when Ford was elected. Its true that prices tend to rise during the warmer months as refineries shut down for maintenance, just as demand for fuel increases.
Hire 300 doctors in northern Ontario, including 100 specialists and 40 mental health practitioners; fund travel accommodations for medical residents to take elective rotations in rural and northern communities; create more residency rotation positions to help retain doctors in the north. Either way, its a stretch to say the Liberals didnt listen to what the people wanted, since they did exactly that by putting it to a vote. In 2017, the Liberals finalized the sale of Hydro One, but retained a 40 per cent stake in the company. For the Ontario Line, the government lowered this requirement to 10 per cent. Besides, the notion that gas companies can arbitrarily set prices high during a long weekend is one that defies the logic of a competitive market, Parent said. Alberta is a case study: since the province slashed its gas tax on April 1, data shows 90 per cent of the tax reduction has been passed to consumers. Horwath was also misleading when speaking about a third target this week: Big Oil. true: Whether Doug Ford had a hissy fit is beyond the scope of this project.
true: Whether Doug Ford is in it for working people is beyond the scope of this project.
Prior to that, Ford was non-committal about passing the bill, and has still not committed to supporting it if re-elected. Itll save families hundreds of dollars..
They sell off Hydro One, she said to reporters in Kingston. But this tends to happen gradually and its not gas companies being opportunistic, but a function of the market.
stretch: By Horwaths own admission earlier this week, the tax reduction stands to save the average Ontario household $65 over six months. If Horwaths logic held here, that would mean gas prices would stay high even when other price-setting factors, like the cost of crude oil, fell, said Trevor Tombe, economist at the University of Calgary.
Newspapers Limited, One Yonge Street, 4th floor, Toronto, ON, M5E 1E6, Virtual announcement on health care in Scarborough, Virtual announcement on health care in Niagara. You can also read the full party platform for yourself at the bottom of this story. Thats not nothing. It wasnt until April 2021 that Ontario launched the COVID-19 Worker Income Protection Benefit, giving employees up to three paid sick days. The problem was there before the NDP took over, it persisted after they were in power, it persisted while the Conservatives were in power, and when the Liberals came back to power, he said, calling the issue a chronic three-party failure., Who gets elected as the premier of the province and starts cutting cancer screening programs, cutting autism services, doubling the waitlist for children who are needing autism services, creating chaos for their families?. And Doug Ford is doing the exact same thing.. But while all of that is true, to say that Ontario has no mental health care system at all is clearly false. And the other thing we know look at Alberta, they dont have any gas taxes, but they have the highest prices of gas that theyve ever had., Health care is broken in Scarborough because 15 years of the Liberal government broke health care. This is something that other governments have refused to do. There's no predictability to the system, said Patrick Monaghan, optometrist and father to two children on the spectrum. While the NDP could feasibly lower gas companies profit margins, its fluctuations in the price of crude oil (right now caused by the war in Ukraine) that make prices so high. Establish universal, publicly funded mental-health care; invest $130M over three years for children's mental health. Del Duca has decided that the form of voting that best favours himself and the Liberals is something that he is going to dictate to Ontarians.. true: Whether or not the Liberal record was disappointing is beyond the scope of this project. Horwath was off the physical campaign trail for much of those five days, after testing positive for COVID-19 Thursday, but persevered and held press conferences virtually. Hire 10,000 personal support workers, give them a raise; hire 30,000 nurses, expedite recognition of nursing credentials of 15,000 internationally trained nurses; scrap Bill 124, which limits public sector compensation increases. When search suggestions are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. She made many truthful claims about her own record on fighting Islamophobia, on pharmacare and about Fords on electric vehicles, on the wait list for autism services, and on health care. While the problems with the provinces mental health care systems are well documented high costs, lengthy wait times governments have been investing in mental health for decades. Even if there was a systematic relationship between prices and long weekends, that doesnt mean its gouging, says Trevor Tombe, economist at the University of Calgary. In combination with factors like co-pays, deductibles, etc, this is certainly possible, especially with high cost drugs that are increasingly becoming a challenge for drug plans of all types., (Doug Ford) cut funding for kids with autism, doubling the wait list of kids that are waiting for treatment for autism.. Increase Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program rates by 20 per cent and index raises to inflation; restart a basic income pilot. false: When asked about this claim, Horwaths communications director said mental health in Ontario is delivered through a fragmented patchwork, noting that there is no designated ministry of mental health, and no overarching body to track mental health statistics. However, private plans do not extend to all medications and have maximum limits in place, meaning some Ontarians have to pay for prescriptions under the new rules. They bring us the gas plant scandal., Source: Pharmacare announcement in Kingston, false: It is true that the former Liberal government sold Hydro One and became embroiled in the gas plant scandal. He started cutting right away in health care, in long term care.. As the Stars fact-checker, I listened to everything Horwath said publicly last Wednesday to Sunday, noted down every statement of fact she made, and did everything I could to verify it, just as I had done the previous two weeks, first with Green leader Mike Schreiner and then with Liberal leader Steven Del Duca. He doubled the funding for autism from the previous Liberal government to $600 million a year. Speaking about why she prefers a mixed member proportional voting system: Well, its obvious that thats what the constituency assembly by the way, that the Liberals instituted years ago to review this topic, how do we reform our electoral system so its the people of Ontario really, and the constituency assembly, that recommended the mixed member proportional system and thats why we embraced it., Source: Virtual announcement on health care in Niagara. true: Its true that just last week the U.S. House passed a bill to crack down on alleged price gouging at the pumps. They bring us hallway medicine. This is something that we knew was going to happen during the last campaign, when (the PCs) didnt even have a platform, when Doug Ford refused to tell us where he was going to cut., And then of course (Doug Ford) got elected, and boy, did he start cutting. Those two issues can be pinned on the Liberal party directly but it is false to say that the Liberals brought about hallway medicine on their own.
true: Whether or not the NDP is on the side of working people is beyond the scope of this project. In 2017, the Liberals finalized the sale of Hydro One, but retained a 40 per cent stake in the company. Horwath first erred when she spoke ill of the Liberal record. Doug Ford, and Steven Del Duca, their (gas tax plan) will give people a couple of bucks for six months. The gas plant scandal, meanwhile, has plagued the party since the days of former premier Dalton McGuinty. Horwaths claim that Ford is doing the exact same thing by freezing and cutting hospital budgets is false. This past long weekend, gas prices actually dropped 10 cents per litre in Ontario Friday and studies show that wasnt an anomaly. In the early 90s, under Bob Raes NDP government, hospitals reported emergency department overcrowding and a nursing shortage.
By the way the Liberals did not listen to their own report, like their own constituency assembly that the Liberals put together, they refused to listen to what the people wanted.. Fords recent budget earmarked $204 million for mental health and addictions. 
Health care budgets were frozen in 2012, and hundreds of registered nurses faced layoffs in 2015. While theoretically possible, the notion that gas companies would increase their prices to reap the benefits of the provincial gas tax is far-fetched, experts say. stretch: The Ford government told the CBC the proposed gas tax cut, set to take effect July 1, would save the average household $65 in 2022. The Ontario Hospital Association confirmed that there have been no freezes or reductions in hospital operating budgets since Ford took power. Box 500 Station A Toronto, ON Canada, M5W 1E6. They froze hospital budgets, they cut hospital budgets, they fired nurses. Freeze taxes for low and middle income families. End health-care user fees, such as doctors' notes. However, it is true that the Ford government was fiercely criticized during the first year of the pandemic for refusing to provincially mandate paid sick leave. The Ontario NDP released its platform Monday, days ahead of the expected official start to the provincial election campaign. But its a stretch to say hes still cutting. The government spent $1.3 billion less on Ontarios public schools this year than it had projected, though that reduction in education sector expenses was tied to factors other than government retrenchment, mostly related to the pandemic. Toronto Star articles from the late 90s talk about cancer patients being forced to seek treatment in Buffalo because there werent enough beds in Ontario. However, it is true that the Ontario Federation of Labour endorsed the Ontario NDP following the leaders debate. You can read more about party's plans for what leader Andrea Horwath calls a "high stakes election" here, or scan through its key promises in the list below, broken down by subject area. Create a zero-emissions vehicles strategy, with a goal of 100 per cent of all new auto sales being ZEVs by 2035; offer up to $10,000 incentives for ZEVs, excluding luxury vehicles. true: In 2019, Ford cut the $634,689 needed annually to run a cancer screening bus that traveled through the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network. true: In Nov. 2020, the Ford government passed Bill 218, which contained changes to the Municipal Elections Act, scrapping the option for municipalities to use ranked ballots during civic elections. Expand the Greenbelt; plant one billion trees by 2030; ban non-medical single-use plastics by 2024. Even if she did not mean it literally, some Ontarians may take it that way. London became the first Canadian city in 2018 to make use of the voting method, and at one point Toronto was considering switching to a ranked ballot for the 2022 election.
So even if you had enough money to get exactly what your kid needs, you may not have a place to get it now. Now, there are more than 50,000 kids waiting for autism support more than double the 23,000 on the waitlist when Ford was elected. The Financial Accountability Office also found the PC government has been underspending its autism budget, using less than 50 per cent allocated in the first nine months of the 2019-2020 fiscal year. 
But they generally dont, he said, because gas companies have an incentive to keep prices low to edge out their competitors. Specifically, fundraising declined by $479 million, and international student revenue dropped by $141 million. While Ford did not necessarily cut services for kids with autism, the result of the changes in funding eligibility has disrupted services significantly, with therapists moving out of the field. If Horwaths logic held here, that would mean gas prices would stay high even when other price-setting factors, like the cost of crude oil, fell, said Trevor Tombe, economist at the University of Calgary. When speaking of the NDPs own strategy, Horwath promised regulating the gas market would lower prices right away and also permanently.. When a premier refuses, during a global pandemic, to prescribe the basic necessity of paid sick days for working people so that they dont have to go to work and expose their co-workers to COVID-19, that is not a premier who supports working people.. Physician and health policy expert David Naylor called the issue of hospital overcrowding a chronic three-party failure. As I was saying a little earlier, its a long weekend, and weve seen whats going to happen, always happens, is that they are very opportunistic when it comes to long weekends and when it comes to good weather, and they certainly jack up the prices and we are stuck with that predatory behaviour., false: The notion that gas companies gouge consumers on holidays and long weekends is one thats been peddled by politicians on both sides of the spectrum, including Ford but available evidence and the logic of economics suggest it doesnt hold water. What the NDP is proposing putting a price ceiling on gas effectively already exists in the four Atlantic provinces. The gas plant scandal, meanwhile, has plagued the party since the days of former premier Dalton McGuinty. true: It is true that Ford made various cuts to the health sector, including to mental health, prescription drug coverage, and overdose prevention sites. The only party in the legislature that wasnt prepared to move (the Our London Family Act) forward was the governing party Doug Ford and the Conservatives.. As a cost-saving measure, Ford changed the program so only those under 25 without private drug coverage could get prescriptions covered. And, while the province created the Ontario Youth Action Plan, the plan didnt target youth at the highest risk to violence or victimization. Implement a provincial anti-racism strategy; appoint a minister responsible for anti-racism; erect a Holocaust memorial on the grounds of the legislature; immediately pass the Our London Family Act to combat Islamophobia. false: Fords government passed Bill 111, an act to temporarily cut the provincial gas tax by 5.7 cents per litre beginning July 1, in April. true: Whether Doug Ford is a friend to working people is beyond the scope of this project.
Also on health care, Horwath later said the Liberals froze hospital budgets, they cut hospitals, they fired nurses. The pharmacy funding cut only happened in the first year, with future cuts delayed due to the pandemic. 
Two economists from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives estimated the income loss to full-time minimum wage workers over those three years was more than $6,000 each. stretch: Ford has made various cuts to education since he was elected, cutting $25 million in funding for specialized programs in elementary and secondary schools, reducing college and university tuition by 10 per cent, and scrapping free tuition for students from low-income families.