Premier Doug Ford’s election victory ushered in a year of change for Ontario.
From massive budget cuts designed to tackle the province’s deficit to unexpected u-turns when public outrage reached historic levels, Ford’s Progressive Conservative government was full of surprises.
“We’re moving at lightning speed. I think we’re going to continue moving forward, fulfilling promises we made,” Ford told reporters earlier this week.
House leader Todd Smith said in a statement Thursday that the PCs did good on their promise to “clean up 15 years of scandal, waste and mismanagement at Queen’s Park,” in reference to the Liberal party.
However, Ford’s critics say his priorities are wrong, axing social services and environmental protections, while loosening gambling and liquor laws.
“Doug Ford’s priorities are out of whack,” said MPP John Fraser, interim Liberal party leader at a news conference Thursday. “He can hire a special advisor for alcohol, and then axe the child advocate … He can send all his MPPs out over a weekend to hock beer and wine in the corner store when their time would be better spent listening to parents of children with autism and special needs.”
Green Party leader Mike Schreiner called it “the year that’s taking us backwards.”
June 7 is the one-year anniversary of Ford coming into office, and to mark it we’ve compiled an inexhaustive list of his government’s accomplishments and blunders.
June 2018
Ontarians vote in a majority PC government led by Ford. He’s perhaps best known for his time as a Toronto city councillor, and as brother to the late mayor Rob Ford.
In the weeks following the June 7 election, and before he was sworn in, Ford set about change:
July 2018
Ford calls a rare summer session and his government gets to work cancelling and rolling back Liberal legislation and promises:
August 2018
September 2018
October 2018
November 2018
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December 2019
January 2019
February 2019
March 2019
April 2019
May 2019
Watch: Winners and losers of the 2019 budget. Story continues below.
June 2019
More than one million public sector employees, including teachers and nurses, face a wage increase cap.
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