Member of Provincial Parliament for Ottawa South. Husband, father and grandfather of Vaughan, Sloane & Fraser. Best buddy to Kealey 🐾🐾
Ottawa South/Ottawa-Sud
Joined June 2013
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Last year @fordnation spent a record $117m on taxpayer funded self promoting ads
It’s a choice and it’s the wrong one.
For cancer patients needing treatment, laid off workers needing a new career and kids with exceptionalities needing help at school…
It’s all wrong.
NEW: The Ford government has broken its own record for ad spending.
Internal documents show its advertising bill climbed to more than $117 million last year, according to internal documents — the highest total in a single year in Ontario’s history.
A breakdown of how the money was spent in this story by me and @CharliePinkerto: thetrillium.ca/news/governme…
Happy Small Business Week to Ontario’s entrepreneurs and local business owners. Thank you for creating jobs and strengthening our communities.
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Thousands of students have had their OSAP ripped away. Now they’re facing dropping out, homelessness, and financial ruin.
The Ford government was warned about potential fraud for years. Instead of targeting the bad actors, students at public and private institutions are paying the price.
I sat down with @ColinDMello on Global News’ Focus Ontario to discuss the growing OSAP crisis and why students deserve better.
Watch the full segment here: youtu.be/r4EK2U9tWe4?si=1Dth… #onpoli
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Doug Ford is already refusing to swear in the trustees who will be elected next Monday at eight school boards across Ontario.
People should be able to vote knowing the representatives they choose will actually be allowed to serve.
They shouldn’t be trying to run everything from downtown Toronto.
#onpoli @JohnFraserOS
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The Ford government destroyed OSAP. They were warned about potential fraud for years and failed to act.
Now students across Ontario can’t pay rent, tuition and groceries, and they’re being told to wait until the new year. What are they supposed to do in the mean time?
Students should not have to pay the price for this government’s incompetence.
Cut off the bad actors. Restore OSAP for students who followed the rules. Immediately. #onpoli
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So many questions about the Greenbelt scandal.
How did a developer whose proposal reached the housing minister’s office in June 2021 end up having that exact property removed from the Greenbelt in November 2022, and who was involved in making that decision? #onpoli
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Les libéraux de l’Ontario exigent que le gouvernement de Doug Ford comble les graves lacunes en matière de services en français au sein de ServiceOntario.
Les francophones devraient pouvoir accéder aux services auxquels ils ont légalement droit sans qu’on leur demande de revenir un autre jour ou de devoir composer avec le manque de personnel bilingue.
Après près de huit ans au pouvoir, le gouvernement Ford doit remédier aux problèmes de dotation en personnel, faire respecter les règles et mettre en œuvre les recommandations du commissaire.
#onpoli
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Please find the Ontario Liberal Party’s statement on the great tragedy that occurred at the Canadian Forces Base Wainwright in Alberta this weekend here.
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Doug Ford scapegoated students and cut their OSAP grants saying they were abusing it.
Now we know the potential abuse was happening in a handful of private colleges with ties to the Ford government, now referred to the OPP.
Stop making students pay for the government’s failures. Reverse the OSAP grant cuts to students in the public sector. Immediately the OSAP loans to students in legitimate career programs. #onpoli
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So heartbreaking to hear the news from CFB Wainwright. My thoughts and love are with everyone affected. Families, friends, colleagues, first responders. My thanks for the actions of all the brave women and men who do some of the hardest work imaginable.
Heartbreaking news from CFB Wainwright. Our thoughts are with all CAF personnel affected.
To the loved ones, family, and friends of these brave men and women, our hearts go out to you.
Thanks to the first responders, doctors, nurses and all those providing aid in this tragedy.
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Layoff notices have gone out to workers in some career colleges. Students who had OSAP taken away are being told if they can’t pay their tuition they will have to drop out. They can’t pay their rent, tuition, groceries, bills. These are future PSWs, ECEs, social workers…
Meanwhile, Premier @fordnation and Minister @nolanmquinn are silent. Do your job. Reverse this decision, and restore the grants to public students while you’re at it. #FixOSAP #onpoli
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"We can confirm that the Office of the Auditor General received a notification from the government last week. This was separate from the request for an audit received from MPP Tyler Watt."
"While the minister has the power to request a 'special assignment,' it’s unclear why the government chose to only notify the auditor as opposed to request a performance audit – similar to Liberal MPP Tyler Watt’s request." #onpoli #FixOSAPasap
globalnews.ca/news/12101191/…
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Somehow, it keeps getting worse.
#onpoli
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Hard working students are being made to pay the price for @nolanmquinn's mistakes.
Rather than target colleges under investigation, Doug Ford and Quinn froze OSAP for students across all career colleges. It was a crucial mistake.
Minister Quinn must resign.
#onpoli
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Career colleges in Ontario raised concerns directly with the government about potential abuse in the system.
That’s the part our Interim Leader, John Fraser, says Ontarians shouldn’t lose sight of: they knew. They were warned. They waited.
And now they're making students deal with the fallout.
#onpoli @JohnFraserOS
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🚨 #BREAKING: Last year, students at just three Academy of Learning campuses received more than $219 million in OSAP grants.
Now we know the career college owners at the centre of this scandal donated to @OntarioPCParty, hired former Premier's Office staff as their lobbyists, and had PC ministers and MPPs at ribbon-cuttings for the worst-offending campuses.
Doug Ford's government was inspecting these campuses with one hand and cutting ribbons with the other.
We've been asking how this was allowed to go on for so long.
Is this why the government looked the other way?
#onpoli
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💥The Great OSAP Heist: The political connection between Indian MPs and the OSAP scandal cannot be ignored—and reinforces arguments that foreign actors don't belong in Canadian politics.
When the Academy of Learning's Brampton East campus held its opening ceremony in November 2025, the occasion was attended by the Conservative MP Amarjeet Gill and two Ontario PC cabinet-adjacent figures, Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria and MPP Amarjot Sandhu. A year earlier, a Mississauga franchisee appeared alongside Premier Doug Ford at a Diwali gala.
And as the scandal widened, the government began to use its own oversight failure to justify a broader retrenchment. Having spent three years being warned, the province moved to cut student-aid grants for students at universities and public colleges — institutions that had nothing to do with the fraud — citing "unsustainable" OSAP costs.
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This morning, I joined @CTVYMOttawa to discuss the OSAP scandal.
Doug Ford needs to immediately reinstate OSAP for students who followed the rules. Keep the bad actors cut off, investigate them, and make affected students whole.
The government must also reverse its OSAP grant cuts to public colleges and universities. Their claims that OSAP was unsustainable deserve serious scrutiny in light of what we now know.
Students should not be paying the price for this government’s failures. #onpoli