I love Canadian state funerals. I love that we, the people, pay the state media to spend a bunch of our money pretending to us that someone spent his life doing things for us, when in fact he did them to us. #mulroney#cbc#media#canada
He simultaneously set a prominent woman up for abject failure, and robbed anyone of the opportunity to be the celebrated and successful first female prime minister of Canada in the future.
He gave misogynists a generation worth of opportunities to say "well we tried a woman once, and we saw how that worked out."
As a teenager growing up in #Ontario, I always envied the kids who spent their summers #TreePlanting; they'd come back from the bush in September, insect-chewed and leathery, with new muscle, incredible stories, thousands of dollars, and a glow imparted by the knowledge that they'd made a new forest with their own blistered hands.
The art of finding out what's true or prudent didn't die with the #Reagan Revolution (or the discount Canadian version, the #Mulroney Malaise). The truth is knowable. Doing stuff is possible. Things don't have to be on fire.
Peter Bethlenfalvy, the #Ontario MPP for the area where the largest piece of #Greenbelt was removed, said he only found out the day of the cabinet meeting 🤔 He had "no idea about what the govt wanted to do in his riding prior" and says building on the Greenbelt is a “necessity” for the future economy
Fun Fact: Bethlenfalvy's chief of staff Mark Lawson is now VP of Comms & External Relations for #Therme - the luxury spa that #DougFord is planting on #Toronto's waterfront for 100 yrs. #onpoli
David Wake (remember him?) Ontario’s integrity commissioner found "no wrongdoing" in the re-routing of the Bradford Bypass.
The commissioner decided Transportation Minister Caroline #Mulroney and her Associate Minister of Transport, MPP Stan Cho had "no involvement" in the route change relating to the "investment land" purchased by.. Stan Cho's father.