#ontario election
It’s the Ontario election today and my friend’s niece is the best kid on the planet (fb is her nickname):
Doug Ford is Ontario’s boogeyman. FB is right and she should say it.
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Also - if you haven’t done so already, get out and vote!!
If you’re worried about lines, like we saw last October with the federal election, that wasn’t my experience at all. Obviously can’t speak for all voting locations, but I was in and out in minutes.
Doug Ford fucking needs to go. Let’s get him outta here
This would make an ideal poster for spreading around university campuses, recreation centres, bulletin boards, etc.
You morons!! You have no understanding of even the basics of economics. Do you understand that the majority of employers are small businesses that cannot afford to pay $15 dollars an hour. They will either stop hiring or lay off employees at the very least. They will also pass on the extra cost on to their customers or go out of business.
“It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By “business” I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living…“
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
tl;dr business owners do not have the right to subsidize their profits on the backs of their workers. If a business cannot pay fair wages it is a parasite and should fail accordingly.
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Listen. I left Ontario years ago, but I still carry it in my heart and in my bones.
Today is election day for those of you back home, and let me tell you: Doug Ford and his version of the Conservative Party represent the kind of disgusting populism that has infected my new country. He does not deserve to form government, he does not deserve to be Premier.
Vote NDP. Please, for the love of all that is good and kind in this world, get out to vote and vote NDP.
Remember, if your employer does not afford you a three hour window during poll hours, then they are responsible for giving you paid time off to vote.
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