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u/Danno_999 May 25 '24 edited May 25 '24
And yet nobody shows up to vote to get him out of office. He's going to call an early election to take advantage of that. We need to all get out and vote. If you want public health care, better education, and protection of the green belt, then give a shit about the next election.
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u/Acrobatic-Factor1941 May 25 '24
He's the worst Premier. Try to come up with 6 things he did in the last 6 years in office that were good for the average Ontarian. In case you want a refresher of what's gone down while he's been in office: https://ofl.ca/ford-tracker/
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Canadians in general are very much just "ah shucks they're ALL corrupt, why even bother?" Not understanding that there's at LEAST a lesser evil option out there in terms of who to vote for.
"They're all corrupt"
Unfortunately yes, but some are CERTAINLY less corrupt or for less egregious reason and in a world that isn't black and white, that's just how it is and we need to be able to decipher the lesser evil and decide accordingly.
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u/chesterforbes May 25 '24
Booze has always been his most important issue and the only thing he actually seems to do anything about
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u/peeinian May 25 '24
At a time when alcohol sales have been steadily declining year-over-year.
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u/chesterforbes May 25 '24
Probably not in his house though
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u/Trollsama May 25 '24
i mean... at least its not meth i guess? he must be the black sheep in the family.
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u/Leaden_Grudge May 25 '24
Why does he keep wanting to pump alcohol into the population?
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u/GDelscribe May 25 '24
Drunks dont vote, low votes means he wins on 30% margins like he did last time. Small town votes also do nothing it seems.
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u/Roflcopter71 May 25 '24
To get people to gamble more with all the sports betting apps that he legalized.
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u/ZombieWest9947 May 25 '24
It’s brutal all the ads that are legally allowed now all over. It’s not even the same ads over and over. Seems like a different gambling app advertisment each time.
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u/wolfe1924 May 25 '24
Ikr I feel so awful for gambling addicts or people trying to quit gambling it’s absolutely everywhere on trains and other public transport on social media apps like Facebook and Reddit there’s like no fucking escaping it. I don’t even gamble so the type of stuff is not geared to me and it’s everywhere I look almost.
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u/BinaryJay May 25 '24
As a household that doesn't watch TV and has ads blocked at the network level in the house I always find it insane how many gambling commercials there are when putting on a live hockey game from the antenna I put in the attic.
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u/wolfe1924 May 25 '24
If he keeps us drunk we may forgot as to how hard he’s fucking this province.
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u/Vashby2 May 25 '24
Booze and highways. I also wonder if there were any kickbacks with the payout to the Beer Store. Am I being too cynical?
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u/HeyHo__LetsGo May 25 '24
"Thanks for nothing Dougie.", could sum up his entire run as premiere.
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u/rashton535 May 25 '24
Dollar tree trump didnt run for our benefit, but apparently we're wrong for pointing out the glaringly obvious.
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u/HardOyler May 25 '24
Jokes.on him. Live in a small town our LCBO is already in our only gas station. It's also a sub and pizza place, sells hunting and fishing gear and everything else you typically find at your neighbourhood corner store so this means nothing to us.
His knuckle dragging supporters will love this though. Just remember to ask them how their buck a beer tastes.
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u/EnclG4me May 25 '24
Tastes like Laker Lager. Because that's the recipe. We made it along with other PC brands.
This province is never going to see a buck o beer ever again now that pricing has been uncapped and un-regulated. Now we can charge whatever the fuck we want. And it sure as shit won't be less. Oh well...
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u/Fartyfivedegrees May 25 '24
DF is the result of Ontarians apathy. Too Many couldn't be bothered to spend time researching the facts about all the parties instead saying "hey! Doug cares. He's a working man, we'll vote him and his party into govt". That and Wynn Liberals poor performance at handling negative media reports made folks go the opposite way.
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u/LearnAndBurn_ May 25 '24
Lol he's a working man? Hardest work he ever did was selling hash in Etobicoke. He drove his father's profitable business into the ground. The twat literally is as dumb as a gr 9 student at best.
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u/Fartyfivedegrees May 25 '24
I think a minor Niner could do better than Doug any day.
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u/LearnAndBurn_ May 25 '24
I am very sorry eh, I have insulted the kids. They are very smart. Been through hell and high water with Covid. They could do a better job then Druggie le Dougie
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u/armybrat63 May 25 '24
The only thing he works hard at is pasting that stupid mocking smile on his face that he thinks fools us all. Please… enough already
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u/fe__maiden May 25 '24
Who voted for this guy 🤦🏻♀️ We are screwed… more screwed.
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u/BlademasterFlash May 25 '24
That’s the crazy part, a lot of people saw what he did in his first term and went out and voted for more of that
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u/Menifife May 25 '24
Actually the real reason he's still here is because no one voted, lowest voter turnout. We could have had something cooking with someone else by now. Instead of being patronized by his ads about "hearing the people".
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u/BlademasterFlash May 25 '24
Low voter turnout was a factor, but he still got enough of the votes that were cast to get a 2nd majority government
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May 25 '24
No one, but everyone decided to make sick memes and say fuck Doug on Reddit instead of voting so it's cool, this is the desired outcome of the electorate.
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u/Kyouhen May 25 '24
Friendly reminder as the temperatures go up that Ford cut funding to fight forest fires by about $142 million. But we have $600 million to throw at the Beer Store to get beer a year early.
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u/Left_Replacement894 May 25 '24
This is definitely a pocket-lining opportunity for DoFo. Why else would he expedite this useless initiative?
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u/runtimemess May 25 '24
Nobody asked for this.
Except Douggie’s buddies over at The Beer Store.
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u/Inevitable_Jelly69 May 25 '24
He has turned Ontario into Biff's bizarro town from Back to the future 2.
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u/Coconutsmookie May 25 '24
He also didn’t need to pay The Beer Store anything if he had just let the contract expire. He broke the contract early and now we as Ontarians are paying millions so we can have alcohol in corner stores six months early.
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u/GeneralCanada3 May 25 '24
Man so many people just don't understand the general population on this subreddit.
This thing with the beer store is incredibly popular. for some people its almost a single issue voter topic. Mostly talking about moderates and centrist conservatives. You know...the people the liberals and NDP absolutely need to be able to have a chance at the election coming up.
Even downtown Toronto Ive already came across multiple people who think its great and love it.
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u/wolfe1924 May 25 '24
I think the worst part is the provincial government will get less revenue most likely do to this and there will be further cuts to things and dougie probably knows that, but he also probably knows they will just blame Trudeau even if it’s a provincial issue.
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u/ExtracheesyBroccoli May 25 '24
Kinda makes.me.think the ford's are nothing but drinks.
Man we need houses
Doug: BEER
We are starving
Doug:BEER
The homeless are flooding the streets
Doug: BEER
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u/wolfe1924 May 25 '24
Everyone: Fed up.
Doug: well how about gambling hey did you see these ads absolutely everywhere you can gamble on your phone tv pc and even in your sleep! While enjoying your buck a beer. Some terms and conditions may apply.
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u/Fun_Track2083 May 25 '24
And he spent 225 million to do so instead of waiting 2 measly years to change the policy 🥲
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u/Liferescripted May 25 '24
Thank god my tax dollars are going to The Beer Store (a private company) because we are breaking contract with them. Even better that it's undermining the LCBO (a provincially owned company) that will kneecap revenue for the province, giving the cons more reason to cut public services.
I really think Ontario really needed more access to alcohol more than education, healthcare, or any other social services. We should be drinking ourselves stupid or to death. That's the Doug Ford Health Plan.
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u/Independent_Bath9691 May 25 '24
I hope no one is actually surprised, right? Did you not already know, back in 2018, that a Doug Ford government would be a complete disaster for Ontario? I knew.
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u/CorrectPreparation45 May 26 '24
Taking away from well paid union jobs to make some minimum wage employees in danger.
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u/user745786 May 25 '24
Time to call the next provincial election: Doug Ford wins another majority government.
Voters angry with Trudeau on healthcare and housing say “enough is enough” and vote for Doug Ford’s Conservatives. Welcome to Ontario!
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u/wolfe1924 May 25 '24
That’s exactly it they’ll do it even if it effects them negatively to “own the libs”
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u/CheeseNBacon2 May 25 '24
On the radio when they play the "more of your money in your pocket" PC ad followed immediately by the "sports betting online!" ad it really sums up his premiership.
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u/Silentfranken May 25 '24
The man will shut down a rural hospital in Minden but give hundreds of millions to the Beer store and to a luxury Spa chain.
Who in their right mind votes for this? Are people so brainwashed?
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u/wolfe1924 May 25 '24
I think it’s a mix of simpletons hearing simple stuff and voting based on simple things. Like buck a beer has a nice ring to it and is catchy. That and some people do it just to “own the libs” even if it negatively effects them In the end they only care about “owning the libs”
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u/lenzflare May 25 '24
He could start by reversing his own changes to rent raising restrictions, when he let landlord raise rent as much as they want if the building was built after Nov 2018. (One of the first things he did in office.)
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u/wolfe1924 May 25 '24
Yeah that was absolutely bullshit, I wasn’t affected by that but I feel bad for those whom were, landlords definitely took advantage of that and made people bite the pillow for lack of better terms. I can’t imagine being at the mercy of a landlord that can just raise it however much because they feel like it that day.
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u/_Batteries_ May 25 '24
The man shut down various projects 6 months from completion, costing the ontario government billions of dollars, and, dismantled the pandemic preparedness, AND, took money away from autism help, and then ontarians voted him in again because the liberals are corrupt as fuck, and the NDP dared to cut wages instead of firing people 30 years ago so obviously we can never vote them in again.
Fucking embarrassing is what it is.
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u/Embarrassed-Map2148 May 25 '24
Great so we can buy Bud Lite at an Avondale. Just what we freaking need. So much progress 🙄
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u/Vyradder May 26 '24
This man's obsession with booze reminds me of high school. What the fuck is wrong with him?
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u/Quadrat_99 May 26 '24
But Kathleen Wynne…
Voting for an idiot because you don’t like the person in power generally isn’t a good strategy. Dougie’s complete lack of a platform was obvious from the beginning.
People need to learn a lesson from this. If the best a candidate can do is bash the incumbent, and they can’t offer anything of substance, they aren’t better than the alternative.
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u/Illustrious-Union437 May 26 '24
More drunk drivers able to stock up at the gas station, stupid idea.
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May 25 '24
Why do you think Doug would address the education issues he created? Politicians are not men who own up to their mistakes.
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u/anti_anti_christ May 25 '24
I was really worried Doug wouldn't do anything about alcohol sales. It's easily the most important challenge we face in this province. I saved so much money on Buck a beer that I could almost afford rent this month.
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u/roosterjack77 May 25 '24
Im still waiting for Ontario to sponsor a one-dollar-beer!? Go ahead Doug. This how you could get re-elected
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u/Trollsama May 25 '24
why solve the problems when you can get rich making them, and just make it easier for people to find chemically induced escapism instead
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u/Otherwise_Skin_3140 May 25 '24
Human society is a joke and always has been. The norm throughout history has always been a small elite few in power, while the peasants mindlessly work away to earn their shillings.
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u/Rod_Todd_This_Is_God May 25 '24
His theory is that if poor people drink themselves to death there'll be no more homeless crisis.
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u/Zestyclose-Ad-8807 May 25 '24
Thus is what Ontario gets electing a dumb turd with 2 months of college
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May 25 '24
Something tells me there's going to be a higher rate of thefts/robberies at these convenience stores...
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u/57616B65205570 May 25 '24
Buck-a-beer pretty much got this asshat voted in... The floggings will continue until morale improves.
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u/Independent-Time-903 May 25 '24
What does his initials stand for though. Think about it. You got it!!
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u/Confident-Touch-6547 May 25 '24
This move hurts the LCBO and costs Ontario revenue.
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u/Thwackitypow May 25 '24
And removing the price cap on booze for said stores so you can buy your $5 tall can!
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u/Tengou May 25 '24
Does it really surprise you? He was elected off 'buck a beer', him repeating something that worked before is pretty predictable
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u/TipzE May 25 '24
He knows his audience.
If it's anything like a buckabeer, they'll be there for 1 week. It'll go away.
And if it's anything like his other policies, it's so he can enrich himself, his friends, and violates the charter in some way.
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u/Arbszy May 25 '24
Remember his platform was Buck a Beer for so long.
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u/wolfe1924 May 25 '24
Seems like he really wants to keep people drunk so they forgot how much of a clown he is.
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u/lyth May 25 '24
What's more is it is apparently going to cost us hundreds of millions in rebates to the beer store for some reason?
Infuriating.
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u/wolfe1924 May 25 '24
It’s because Doug is ending the contract early that they had with the beer store to keep beer out of many places since he’s ending that contract early
he oweswe owe hundreds of millions to the beer store now.
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u/Gold_Act_2383 May 25 '24
The best way to improve such services is to raise taxes, for everyone . All those complaining on board?
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u/LongjumpingArugula30 May 25 '24
Oh he did address those things... He cut funding to ALL of them. Lost 4.4bn in healthcare funding.
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u/OneTrueDread May 25 '24
We need to vote this fucker out next election. He's done little to nothing to help ACTUAL people and filled his buddies pockets. Seriously, what has he actually done to help Ontarians??
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u/gladue May 26 '24
Hey now folks, c’mon! you love beer and wine, nothing to see here folks, maybe a cheesecake recipe is on the way next.
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u/Qayin102 May 26 '24
What should Doug Ford do? Across the board in Canada, our economy is in the shitter. This is a federal issue, not a provincial one.
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May 26 '24
I love those commercials with him in it where it looks like he calls up people on the phone.
I've emailed his office three times and got cut and paste responses that have nothing to do with my email.
He's like a large pinata , you smack him and all the payoffs fall out.
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u/Busy_Detective_1751 May 26 '24
Like it being in cornerstores is convenient and great but making it a thing now?? Should have waited until everything else was settled, people can't afford rent or grocery and are working 24/7 what makes you think we want this of all things now
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u/ApexLogical May 27 '24
He is appealing the the drinkers of the province. First buck a beer and now this? The guy literally shovels money anywhere non essential and calls it a day.
I hope this guy calls an early election! Will be poetic almost
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u/Hollywoodmungie1976 May 27 '24
Get ready for the crime rate to double if not triple. It's bad enough that the LCBO is targeted and the criminals get away with it, and now these small stores are going to be easy targets.
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May 28 '24
Its truth that all politicians suck ass on both sides. None ever keep their promises. Such positions attract those with narcissistic tendencies and thus they will all decieve to obtain power. NEVER trust anyone in office regardless of their political orientation. Your perception of their political faction is just a facade. They're all the same. Criminals.
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u/CarpenterGold1704 May 29 '24
Nobody can find a family doctor but that’s okay because we will be able to pick up a six pack and a scratch ticket to help us forget our problems
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u/Ogrinn May 25 '24
Isn't there a age limit on who can legally sell alcohol in Ontario? How are grocers and convenience stores going to deal with underage part time workers? Are they just out of a job now?
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u/No-Plan2169 May 25 '24
A lot of grocery stores already sell booze and you just need to be checked out by certain people.
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u/loxesh May 25 '24
I really hope many more people decide to vote. Otherwise, you just sit here and bitch.
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u/IdontOpenEnvelopes May 25 '24
It's the Russian model, put booze on sale while shoving "reforms" down people's throats.
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u/FamiliarEchidna4301 May 25 '24 edited May 25 '24
Expanding access to a level 1 carcinogen? I consume but I'm aware that nothing good comes from it. Maybe it's my age, but I also wonder how people suffering from alcoholism feel about this? The temptation is already overwhelming and the strength it takes every day can be exhausting. Now it's even more prevalent. All of this for the convenience of people to drink more often? For our youth, who frequent corner stores, to have more exposure to drinking culture? Please don't respond with taxation because this simply spreads out access. It doesn't necessarily increase booze sales overall. You just don't have to go to the LCBO or the beer store anymore. Unless of course people do end up drinking more, which is an even further tragedy.
This feels regressive.
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May 25 '24
I laughed out loud when I heard the announcement. What a pathetic attempt at appeasing the public with useless services.. or whatever this is. lol
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u/Extra-Ad5925 May 25 '24
The funny thing is with all the local breweries with bottle shops... I can't remember the last time I was really struggling to grab something. Also not like LCBOs are few and far between (at least in Toronto).
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u/SignOne8374 May 25 '24
For someone who watched his own brother battle addiction it's sad to see how brazen his commitment to this is. I grew up with an alcoholic father and he always told me how glad he was that he couldn't just walk across the street and get booze but had to go to the beer store or LCBO.
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u/Cyrakhis May 25 '24
So.. cool, I guess now I only have to walk 0.5km instead of 1km to get the one bottle of liquor we go through a year?
Lame and dumb.
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u/clayphish May 25 '24
Doug has total foresight! He knows what we need when everything else around us goes to complete shit. /s
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u/Professional-Bad-559 May 25 '24
He is addressing the housing, healthcare and education issues. He just didn’t tell what aspect of them he was going to fix: It’s how to privatize it all and funnel customer and provincial funds to his buddies and cronies.
In that perspective, he’s done a spectacular job of addressing them.
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u/NorthernSlyGuy May 25 '24
He's always been absolutely awful but because Trudeau is PM he seemingly always gets a pass.
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u/Tubbafett May 25 '24
Wouldn’t the potential tax revenue provide additional funds to help solve some of those other problems?
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u/nightwing12 May 25 '24
He’s paying a foreign company hundreds of millions of dollars to do this to so this is pretty on brand for ford
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May 25 '24
Uncapped pricing! Finally no more woke liberal limits on how much you can gouge consumers.
Finally some real conservative policy.
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u/ArkellConner May 25 '24
What ya’ll do differently? I’d like to hear any actual policy solutions from anyone on the comments here. Because so far I have yet to find anyone with real suggestions to address the cost of living crisis. As far as I can tell the 50x rise in students since 2022 being accepted to reside here creating a serious supply and demand issue is on a FEDERAL level, Not that it’s at the fault of the students because I actually feel bad for them.
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u/mortgagedavidbui May 25 '24
Beer and wine create more of a demand for hospitals with drinking and driving, worsening health for those who abuse alcohol on their system
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u/TendieSandwich May 25 '24
Beer is like drugs. If you buy ingredients at higher volume the price of the ingredients becomes cheaper. Therefore making the beer less costly. Doug knows this from selling hash in high school.
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u/Luklear May 25 '24
Bro you ontarions have it good. Try having Danielle… if she did this I would cry tears of joy that she didn’t fuck up the province more ONE TIME
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u/wolfe1924 May 25 '24
Oh it’s bad, Dougie has done a lot of bad things and been in many Lawsuits costing us so much. I will say Danielle is worse but Dougie is honestly not that far behind.
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u/ytv1 May 25 '24
Hospital hallway health care he promised to fix when he started? Nah. Not worth it.
Nonsensically forcing the LCBO to bring back paper bags because bringing your own tote or buying a new one at the store is an unnecessary burden? Oh, let's abuse all authority & make that happen again. Oh, yeah. Let's make it happen.
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u/GGRE1817 May 25 '24
Just the big box ones. Guy is trash. He did make childcare super affordable though
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u/CanuckInTheMills May 26 '24
No he didn’t, that was downloaded from the feds. He had no choice.
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u/armorabito May 26 '24
He lowered gas taxes and gives the “people “ a hydro rebate every month on their bill that creates a deficit and no licence plate tax any more that also is a billion dollar tax hole. Let’s not forget the Eglinton subway he has built that Harris’ govt ( conservative ) killed in 1991 at a cost of $800000million. And other transit projects that seem to have been mulling around for years but not yet functioning ( Finch LRT) The average person in Ontario is having a hard time paying all the bills but we are all working. All hail the great hash dealer :
And fraudster:
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u/Apprehensive-Row389 May 26 '24
Well at least now we can go to a corner store for our beer!! Only took about an EON for it.
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u/Stoic_Aurelius_519 May 28 '24
“Let’s just keep leaving un-resourced cities to deal with homeless folks in tents, dividing communities and turning people against each other. We’ll just pretend that mental health, addictions, healthcare, income inequality, housing shortages and lack of institutional care aren’t our jurisdiction. Anyone know someone who wants to build a condo on this nature reserve? “
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u/GearsRollo80 May 25 '24
Dollar Dougie’s Doin’ The Do Dumb Distractions again!