TRILLIUM TALK: ‘You can’t put your butt on both sides of the fence,’ Doug Ford tells mayors

Each Sunday morning, one among our legislative reporters from The Trillium supplies an inside take a look at the week that was in Ontario politics — and the week forward

Welcome again to Trillium Discuss, your must-see briefing from Village Media’s crew of journalists on the Ontario Legislature. 

Each Sunday, Scott Sexsmith sits down with one among our staffers at The Trillium to speak concerning the week that was at Queen’s Park — and the week forward.

On the present at this time is reporter Alan S. Hale, who joined our crew of political journalists final month when Village Media acquired Queen’s Park Right now.

Hale breaks down a number of the specifics of the Ford authorities’s fall financial assertion — together with the $200 rebate cheques that each Ontarian is about to obtain.

He additionally explains why the premier had some selection phrases for Ontario’s large metropolis mayors, who aren’t on the identical web page in terms of coping with homeless encampments of their communities. Some — however not all — need the province to make use of the however clause to permit people residing in encampments with extreme psychological diseases or habit to be pressured into therapy.  

“You possibly can’t put your butt on either side of the fence — you will get plenty of slivers,” Ford instructed reporters, when requested concerning the mayors. “You do not sit there and say: ‘Effectively, let’s examine if the province goes to do it.’ Guys, you’re both going one facet or the opposite.”

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