{"id":9052,"date":"2018-09-26T11:32:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T15:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=9052"},"modified":"2018-09-26T14:21:24","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T18:21:24","slug":"premier-ford-you-dont-need-to-sell-opg-and-the-lcbo-to-pay-off-kathleen-wynnes-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=9052","title":{"rendered":"Premier Ford, don&#8217;t sell the Crown jewels to pay the private developers that bribed Kathleen Wynne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Premier Ford&#8217;s government <a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ifci-2018,ReportOfTheIndependentFinancialCommissionOfInquiry,2018.pdf#page=37\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has found<\/a> that the deficit created by the previous government was unacceptably higher than reported, and this will <em>&#8220;require a candid conversation with the public about priorities, and who will\u00a0bear the costs for services that Ontarians enjoy today&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ey_report_2018_en,ManagingTransformation,AModernizationActionPlanForOntario,20180921.pdf#page=44\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hinted in this recent report<\/a> commissioned by the government, and noted in September 26, 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/FordUrgedToSellCrownCorporationsLikeLCBO,CBCNews,20180926.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBC<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/GlobeAndMail,Review,20180926.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Globe and Mail<\/a>\u00a0articles, to pay down this debt, the Ford government may sell Crown corporations such as Ontario Power Generation (OPG) and the\u00a0Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO).<\/p>\n<p>This would be as stupid as selling a very profitable business to pay for a luxury car you don&#8217;t need.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than selling Ontario&#8217;s &#8220;Crown jewels&#8221; to get the cash needed to pay the private developers that made major donations to Kathleen Wynne&#8217;s government, the Ford government can simply stop these proposed projects. For example,\u00a0the Ford government can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=9003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">save at least $70,000,000<\/a> by stopping the proposed hydro-electric generating station at the Bala falls.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Ford, selling Ontario&#8217;s assets to pay off private developers for power that isn&#8217;t needed is wrong. You promised this would be a government for the people. You said <a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=8980\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>&#8220;this project stinks of political interest and insider deals&#8221;<\/em><\/a>, and you promised to stop it. We&#8217;re waiting for you to save Ontarians $70,000,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premier Ford&#8217;s government has found that the deficit created by the previous government was unacceptably higher than reported, and this will &#8220;require a candid conversation with the public about priorities, and who will\u00a0bear the costs for services that Ontarians enjoy today&#8221;. As hinted in this recent report commissioned by the government, and noted in September <a href='https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=9052' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9052"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9056,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9052\/revisions\/9056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}