Idiot of the Day: Doug Ford

This is a work in progress, as it seems like Doug is doing stupid things weekly.

Dumb Things Doug Did (as of 2025-01-20):

• Licence plates you can't read ($1.15M)
• Gas Pump Stickers That Don't Stick ($5k w/o shipping and administration -- ruled 'unconstitutional')
• Social Distancing Bracelets ($2.5M)
• Allowing Private Clinics to Charge for OHIP-Covered Surgeries (at least $60M)
• Changing the Size of Toronto City Council DURING The Election Period
• Buck-A-Beer (nearly Zero Impact, except for possibly raising the average price of beer by 10%)
• Cancelled Renewable Energy Contracts ($231M)
• "Open For Business" ($106k for Provincial signs, but cost of STUPID slogan on every licence plate? Priceless.)
• Shutting down Pickering WHILE Introducing a Moratorium on new Gas Plants (Never Mind -- Doug wants more Gas Plants DESPITE Green Energy Transition Plans)
• Stealing Ontario Place and Giving it to a Foreign Spa Company ($700M+ to subsidise a private, foreign enterprise)
• Building a 400 Series Highway No One Wants (more than $4B)
• Using 'Not Withstanding' for Back to Work Legislation
• Using 'Not Withstanding' to Silence Unions Come Election Time
• Subsidizing Enbridge Despite Ontario Moving Away from Fossil Fuels ($2B)
• Selling Beer & RTD Beverages in Corner Stores and Grocery Stores ($225M -- possibly up to $1B in monies removed from the provincial coffers)
• Requiring ONLY Large Grocery Stores to Participate in Container Recycling for the above
• Trying to Steal the Greenbelt Land and Give it to his Buddies (an $8B increase in the value of that land, had they gotten away with this one)
• Inflating the Cost to Repair the Science Centre (Overstated Costs by $200M)
• EMERGENCY press conference to close the Science Centre RIGHT NOW (except they needed a week to plan the comms strategy)
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• Trying to Steal the Science Centre Land and give it to his Buddies*
• Underspent the Budget by $8BN and Went Hat-In-Hand to the Feds for More Healthcare Money
• Cutting funding for COVID prevention; promising funding for Long COVID care
• Cutting funding for Long COVID care
• Selling Ready-To-Drink Alcoholic Beverages in Convenience Stores and Grocery Stores, but requiring ONLY Grocery Stores to take back empties
• Not Consulating First Nations on... Well, Anything, Despite Legal Requirements To Do So
• Bullshit, Corrupt Procurement Processes
• Requiring Ontario Teachers -- People with FAR more Education than, say, the Premier -- to take a Math test, even if they don't teach math
• Taking every chance he gets to literally cut ads for Loblaw, Tim Hortons, Buying Liquor Somewhere Other Than the LBCO
• Joking that if you're waiting for an MRI in the healthcare system he broke, you could try a veterinarian
• Closing Safe Consumption and Injection Sites, a move that will literally kill Ontarians
• Waging War on Bike Lanes, for some dumbass reason.

*in progress