Tell us why you're done with Doug Ford. Your story goes up next to everyone else's — first name and hometown only.
Stories have come in from Georgina, Keswick, Newmarket, Barrie, Hamilton, Kingston, Lindsay, London, Marmora, Orillia, Richmond Hill, Stoney Creek, Toronto, Waterloo Ontario, Waterloo, Ontario, York-Simcoe, caledon.
Doug has gutted our healthcare, and education. Fencing the Ontario Science Center on a Friday afternoon was a chickensh*t move. Remember the raise he gave his MPPs, staff, and himself?? 35% while freezing healthcare wages? Sick of him, and his greedy cabinet. And now our water is for sale….We can’t afford his ‘protection’ anymore.
Doug Ford is Canadian Donald Trump. Underfunding schools means larger class sizes, less teachers, less educational assistants, less building caretakers to keep schools operational and OPEN. Kids cannot learn on IPads, they cannot learn when there are 30+ misbehaving kids in a classroom with no one to help teachers. Teachers who try to take control of their classrooms are met with violence from the kids. Our teachers are fed up, our caretakers are fed up. This feels like a losing battle. Our teachers are leaving for other provinces where they actually take care of their education system. Most kids in grade 5 can’t properly read or write, they don’t have basic math skills. Our expectation for our kids education is lower and lower with each passing year. This is our provinces FUTURE and we simply don’t care? If it doesn’t directly affect you, you simply don’t care right? You know it, and I know it. You need to stand up and look around and realize how bad things have become under corrupt politicians for the past 10+ years. People don’t seem to understand Canada is doing worse than the USA, we have more corruption, more frivolous spending, PRIVATE JETS! Why would a premier need a private jet?!?! The rich use tactics to confuse you, they want education to be terrible because it’s easier to control people who CAN’T understand what is going on! For the past 10+ years we have had the corrupt stealing from us. IT NEEDS TO STOP! We are losing our country, our education, our freedoms! Doug Ford wants to remove OHIP and privatize healthcare like in the USA. Does that sound like a good idea?! Doug Ford does not care about Ontario, or Canada, or its people. He wants money. Plain and simple. He is willing to destroy our province for it.
For 24 years, I worked as a Community Personal Support Worker, helping people stay in their own homes for as long as possible—often right until the end of their lives. Because of the chronic underfunding of healthcare, hospitals, and home care under Doug Ford’s government, we’ve seen a huge increase in patients being sent home who, in my opinion, should still be in a hospital bed receiving care. Many patients are lucky to receive just two showers a week in their own home. Unless they’re incontinent, then they might be lucky enough to receive daily care- you read that right- to get washed every day you have to soil yourself! The law requires two people to perform a mechanical bed-to-chair transfer safely. Yet there is often no funding for two support workers to attend at the same time, so we’re forced to rely on “John’s” 80-year-old wife to be the second person. “Mary” has to choose between buying her medication or buying groceries. In the winter, heat comes first, so both of those needs often get pushed aside. I could go on with countless examples of how people in our communities are struggling, but it’s heartbreaking—and in my view, unacceptable. What I can say is this: after 24 years of providing caring for others, I walked away from the career I loved because my spirit was broken. Doug did that.
Creating a health crisis by cutting or freezing funding and then using that as an excuse to privatize services. Passing legislation to prevent the public from receiving freedom of information. Putting his developer friends' interests ahead of the interests of Ontario residents. Circumventing democracy by appointing York Region Chair, instead of allowing an election. And let's not talk about education cuts, mental health cuts, supports for children with autism and intellectual delays. I'm out of space now.
Man child…embarrassing what he just did to threaten a president. Agree or not, Canada is in a shambles in every single sector. Broke, drugged and dumb. Our education system needs a revamp, our workers need ambition and incentives. There isn't much to fight for here right now. Our health care system is dangerous. Something needs to change!
All the way back to the beginning of covid-19 Ford consistently chose lobbyists' whims over the advice of scientists and medical experts. Medical staff of all kinds risked their lives for us, lost their lives, took on tremendous physical and mental loads- all while knowing steps that could be taken to help were being ignored. Just so a handful of people could keep profiting. Six years later their hard work is being repaid with funding cuts. Recently my GP exasperatedly told me he'd never seen so many residents quit before. So many people that made up my medical team have either retired or moved to a different province. And who can blame them? They are necessary workers, but they're treated as disposable. Why work long hard hours for not enough money to pay back your student loans? Why stay in a province that's working on privatizing? B.C. has had a quite successful campaign bringing US doctors to come work for them- specifically because the environment of doing medicine where money isn't the main objective is so enticing. People who work in healthcare aren't afraid of hard work, it's the heart-break of a soulless system that does them in. The treatment of the healthcare system and it's workers by the Ford government is sickening. With how fragile our healthcare system is, we can't afford that kind of sickness.
He has reaped this province of all supports and then blames his victims for their survival choices AND makes a billboard out of it. Protect Ontario from encampments? His lack of leadership has caused this issue. Protect Ontario from Doug Ford is what I feel.
1. Education - chronic underfunding has caused increased violence, large class sizes, and lots of stress for educators. No one wants to join this sector thanks to Doug vilifiying this sector. 2. Healthcare - the privatization of this and the chronic underfunding has caused a crisis. 3. Scandals - FOI, skills development fund, greenbelt, Protect Ontario Ads, strong Mayoral powers, hotel stays, vacations, Ontario Place, Therme Spa, Science Centre, gravy plane, and many more… 4. Environmental protections - Bill 5, removal of the endangered species act. Not caring about the environment with construction. 5. HE ONLY CARES ABOUT THE RICH AND HIS DEVELOPER BUDDIES.
Common sense? Highway rest stops on the 401 that are far from any towns should not be advertising “BEER HERE” on 50’ long illuminated signs.
Highway 7 and Highway 35 has been under construction for over 5 years, for a simple widening project. How in the world could he even think a tunnel under Highway 401 is a viable idea. He must be smoking more crack than his brother!
DOUG FORD HAS CUT OSAP, meaning I will have to repay 75% of my schooling this is terrible, and you can see all the other scandals online, not limited to private jets, MPP'S staying in Hotels while billing the fellow Ontarians, I have had it with the PC party
Doug Ford has hurt us all by his actions in attacking public education at all levels and in turning the Universal Public Health Care System into a business-oriented system. His "OPEN FOR BUSINESS" commitment has applied to Ontario, a dog-eat-dog approach which diminishes our entire Quality of Life. Take a good look at what is happening to your family and to all Ontario families. We do NOT need this kind of leadership at ANY level in our province and country. Joe Grogan, a Retired OPSEU member and former college prof., 1969 to 2003
What finally did me in and encouraged me to volunteer to ensure Doug and his government is finished was hls legislation pushed through at the last minute which now denies the public having access to his and his Ministers records. He does not want journalists, stakeholders or the public to be able to obtain information about what business his government has undertaken. We should have the right to know! What is Doug hiding?
Underfunded Education. Cut $6.5 BILLION since elected!!! Kids deserve better. I'm Done with Doug!!!
Doug Ford has wasted millions of our taxpayer money 💰 on Protect Ontario ads while ignoring our Education system. I am a teacher and my colleagues and I are dealing with a teacher shortage. We need more qualified educators in Ontario. Special Education funding needs to improve and class sizes are too big. Students and staff can't continue to do more for less. Please send a clear message to FordNation on September 3rd and vote 🗳 Liberal in the Byelection in York Simcoe.
Why I Will Not Vote for Doug Ford It sometimes feels like Doug Ford’s government has gone out of its way to make life harder for my family. I have two brilliant, neurodiverse kids. We paid roughly $3,000 each for assessments because we knew early intervention mattered. Both were diagnosed with ASD and ADHD. Then, just as my eldest reached the top of the waiting list for services, the system was changed. Instead of getting the help they needed, we were handed applications, paperwork and the responsibility of figuring out what services to find and how to access them. My eldest received funding in Grade 10. My youngest in Grade 9. Both will age out at 18. Those years mattered. We did what we could afford privately, but the costs were enormous. Families shouldn’t have to navigate a maze of paperwork and pay thousands of dollars out of pocket to get their children the support they need. Now I’m worried about the cost of my kids’ post-secondary education, despite years of saving in RESPs. And I’m deeply concerned about what I see happening to Ontario’s democracy and public institutions: decisions becoming increasingly centralized, elected positions being replaced or altered, and public assets and services being put at risk. For my family, this isn’t political theory. These decisions have consequences. I don’t want an Ontario where families have to fight for basic supports, where education becomes less accessible, and where power becomes increasingly concentrated. I won’t vote for Doug Ford. Ontario deserves better.
Time and time again this man and his group of cronies have failed Ontarian’s. From failed license plates, to failure to deliver vaccines, to seniors dying in LTC hallways. He attempted to rip the rug out from some of our most underfunded education workers, and Ontario pushed back, avoiding a near General strike. He wasted billions on fighting wage caps for nurses and teachers. He threw millions down the toilet voiding the Beer deal, and obviously the Greenbelt. He protected his cronies when they went on trips when all of us were told we had to stay home. His cronies stay in hotels at our expense when they live down the street. He tried to buy a personal plane when most of us can’t afford gas or groceries. Education and health care are on the verge of total collapse. He has made it harder for our youngest learners to attend post-secondary, and has touted the trades like it isn’t extremely physically demanding, and dangerous. He is a liar and a cheat. He could give a hoot about you though he says he's for the little guy. He cares only about lining the pockets of his donors and friends. I never thought we would allow our province to duplicate and even surpass the devastation caused by the Harris cronies, Dofo has done it. Ontario is a shell of itself and is very closely resembling what Trump wants us to be. Shame on Doug Ford and his cronies. Time for them to back their bags
Where do I even begin - this government has failed Ontarians. Whether it be underfunding health care, education, and social services, poorly executed transit projects, and the lack of environmental stewardship. This government continues to demonstrate reckless spending on frivolous things and is out of touch with everyday Ontarians. The time for change is NOW!
Fake folksy charm, misplaced priorities, and some truly stupid ideas.
I work with low income/marginalized people, and am appalled by the way he has disregarded their needs, treating them as third class citizens. I am especially concerned that he has frozen Ontario Works (welfare) rates since 2018, expecting individuals to live on $733 a month. I have worked with very vulnerable people who are not able to work for very good reasons, and who cannot even make rent with this paltry sum, let alone pay for all their other needs. People should not be going hungry or face homelessness in a rich province like ours.
The lack of commitment to the health of the community is appaling. Healthcare and education are two things that are hugely important to the health and future of the community. While educators are tasked with higher expectations and the care and education of a large number of students, the needs and challenging behaviours within classrooms contiunue to grow while funding and services that support families and children continue to decrease each year. Doug Ford knows little about what it takes to support the mental health, well-being and learning of chidren in a public school system and it shows as he continues to find ways to cut corners, rather than invest in the children who are the future of our community. Rather than supporting the development well-adjusted individuals within society, the carelessness with which he treats public education contributes to an increase in mal-adjusted individuals within society. I know that the health care system struggles in a similar manner. We need leadership that cares about the health of the community.