Ontario’s Liberals to expose Ford’s shady backroom deals
Bonnie Crombie commits to launching an investigation into Ford’s backroom deals to stop the waste and put more money in people’s pockets
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 8, 2025
TORONTO – If elected Premier, Ontario Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie would launch an investigation into Doug Ford’s shady backroom deals within her first 30 days.
"The buck stops with Doug Ford. Time and again, his government has put well-connected insiders ahead of everyday Ontarians,” said Stephanie Smyth, Ontario Liberal candidate for Toronto-St. Paul’s. “He tried to give land away to his rich buddies, and now the RCMP is investigating his government. This is why we’re in a $189 million early election. And it’s why the people of Ontario are going to vote for change.”
Just this week we learned that Ford’s own staff are accused of accepting money for backroom insights and access in the lead-up to the thwarted Greenbelt sell-off.
"Doug Ford’s web of shady backroom deals runs so deep that only a special investigator can uncover the full truth," Smyth said.
That’s why as Premier Bonnie Crombie will appoint one with a mandate to investigate all of Doug Ford’s giveaway, handouts and sweetheart deals for his rich friends, including:
- The up to $1.9 billion spent to speed up the sale of booze by multinational corporations, big grocers and foreign retail giants;
- A $100 million deal with Elon Musk (noted Donald Trump insider) and Starlink;
- The snap closure of the Ontario Science Centre on land primed for development;
- The sell-off of Ontario Place to a foreign-owned spa;
- The sweetheart deal to open ServiceOntario centres in private American-owned stores;
- The mover $8-billion Greenbelt giveaway to his family friends currently being investigated by the RCMP;
- Dozens of crony patronage appointments at public institutions like the LCBO, Ontario Power Generation, the Judicial Appointments Advisory Committee and more;
- Any insider access to the plans to build an unnecessary $150 billion tunnel to nowhere;
- All the MZO’s Doug Ford gave to his rich buddies.
Bonnie Crombie is determined to undo any arrangements that unfairly favoured Ford’s insiders and will ensure the investigator has the mandate and funding necessary to complete this important work.
“Ontario’s Liberals will stop the backroom handouts usings taxpayers’ dollars — whether it’s to Elon Musk and Starlink or Doug Ford’s friends and the Greenbelt. We will put those dollars back where they belong: in our health-care system and our plan to get you a family doctor,” said Bonnie Crombie.
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