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Premier Doug Ford's Ontario

PinkLucy said:
"Open for Business" is for commercial vehicles. Non-commercial vehicles will sport another slogan which has yet to be revealed.
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I'd like to take it as good news, that we're not inflicting that slogan on everyone...............

Yet I worry.........

Ontario.....

"Home of Ford Fest"
 
I read one news report that said "Open for Business" would be for all vehicles and one that said it would only be for commercial vehicles. There will probably be some stupid big announcement about it.
 
And it's all such crude, transparent propaganda, solely for the intent of promoting the Ford Family 'brand.' "Open For Business," my ass. As if the province had never been open for business before this cheap crook clawed his way into the Premiere's office.

Of course, his fan base shrieked non-stop at "far left" Wynne, as she was scampering around privatizing everything in sight.
 
BurlOak said:
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/cv.action?pid=1410028701#timeframe

From when Wynne introduced the $15 minimum wage to the election, roughly 5k jobs were created per month (on average).
For the 9 months since Ford won the election, roughly 11.5k jobs were created per month (on average).

So the 50k people who got jobs thanks to Ford are doing quite a bit better.
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Not that we haven't seen this post before:

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It takes three governments to make transit because the city relies on the province and the feds. Here is the list of mayors/premiers/PMs since about 95 1998-2003 lastman (right) 2003-2010 Miller (Left) 2010-2014 Ford (Right) 2014-201X Tory (Right) 14 years (right) 7 years (left) 1995-2002...
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BurlOak said:
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/cv.action?pid=1410028701#timeframe

From when Wynne introduced the $15 minimum wage to the election, roughly 5k jobs were created per month (on average).
For the 9 months since Ford won the election, roughly 11.5k jobs were created per month (on average).

So the 50k people who got jobs thanks to Ford are doing quite a bit better.
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Except that Doug cancelled the planned minimum wage increase for January 1, 2019 to $15. So only 3 months under Ford's wage plan, where it stays at $14 (since January 1, 2018) since it would benefit the working folks best (not).
 
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Which "folks" does Doug Ford listen to? When his fingers are not in his ears?

New Ontario law allows less pay for overtime

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Ontario employers’ duty to pay workers overtime just got a little lighter, following passage of a law that quietly reduces some protections around excess hours of work in the province.

Bill 66, which was passed Tuesday at Queen’s Park, lightens regulations around a practice called “overtime averaging” in a way that has significant implications for how much overtime pay workers receive.
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Time-and-a-half pay in Ontario is usually mandatory when employees work more than 44 hours a week, unless an overtime-averaging agreement in place. Under Bill 66, employers will have expanded use of these agreements and will be able to average workers’ hours over the course of a month without Ministry of Labour approval, resulting in less overtime pay.

Bill 66 is about “getting government out of the way of our job creators to help bring jobs and investment back to Ontario,” said Todd Smith, Ontario’s minister of economic development, job creation and trade.

But Pam Frache, co-ordinator of the Ontario Fight for $15 & Fairness campaign, said the new law gives “the green light to employers to demand that workers work more but get paid less.”

For example, an employee who works 30 hours in weeks one and two and 60 hours in weeks three and four would normally be entitled to 32 hours of overtime pay that month. With the month-long averaging agreements that Bill 66 allows, they would get just four hours of overtime pay.
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Frache said the new measures will encourage employers to assign erratic schedules to workers in order to minimize overtime payments.
“It can really introduce precarity and uncertainty and fluctuating hours,” she said.

Previously, employers required permission from the Ministry of Labour to use an averaging agreement.

“Requiring Ministry of Labour approval of overtime-averaging agreements is an essential safeguard for employees’ basic overtime protections and ensuring there are bona fide reasons for overtime averaging,” said Joshua Mandryk, a lawyer with Toronto-based labour law firm Goldblatt Partners.

“The removal of this oversight will inevitably result in the proliferation of overtime-averaging agreements in workplaces where no warranting circumstances are present, and employers are simply seeking to cut costs by denying their employees’ overtime entitlement.”

A two-year review of provincial labour laws known as the Changing Workplaces Review recommended to government in 2017 that overtime averaging be scrapped, except for in extraordinary circumstances. It said there was “no reason to undermine the requirement to pay overtime by permitting averaging.”

Under Bill 66, employers will no longer be required to post information in their workplaces about employees’ basic rights. Instead, employers will be required to individually give employees posters, which “removes the duplication of having to do both” under the current legislation.

The legislation also opens the door for non-unionized construction employers to bid for public-sector contracts, which the Progressive Contractors Association of Canada has called “giant step forward in treating taxpayers, workers and employers fairly.”

But that move will put “worker safety at greater risk,” the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) warns.

“By reducing safety standards to satisfy big business, the government is playing with the lives of Ontarians,” OFL president Chris Buckley said.

“With this bill, the government that claims to be ‘for the people’ is once again putting the almighty dollar ahead of the lives of Ontarians.”
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syn said:
This is respect for taxpayers?

Spending public money on political ads and changing license plate slogans?

I don't necessarily see an issue with a government using taxpayer dollars to spread a message, but this is exactly the kind of "Gravy Train" spending the Fords have complained about for years.
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Is there any significant cost associated with changing the slogan? As long as they are not discarding any already-made license plates, surely the cost of starting to make new license plates with a different slogan is not material in the scheme of things and not likely to line the pockets of anyone (unless Deco is involved somehow).

I'm not a fan of Open for Business. Would rather see a riff on Ut incepit fidelis sic permanet if they want to make a change.
 
toonderly said:
Is there any significant cost associated with changing the slogan? As long as they are not discarding any already-made license plates, surely the cost of starting to make new license plates with a different slogan is not material in the scheme of things and not likely to line the pockets of anyone (unless Deco is involved somehow).

I'm not a fan of Open for Business. Would rather see a riff on Ut incepit fidelis sic permanet if they want to make a change.
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The Fords have built their political brand on eliminating things that didn't have any kind of significant cost, in the grand scheme of things.

If any other party was doing this he'd be livid.
 
toonderly said:
Is there any significant cost associated with changing the slogan? As long as they are not discarding any already-made license plates, surely the cost of starting to make new license plates with a different slogan is not material in the scheme of things and not likely to line the pockets of anyone (unless Deco is involved somehow).

I'm not a fan of Open for Business. Would rather see a riff on Ut incepit fidelis sic permanet if they want to make a change.
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That's an interesting question. Without knowing the production process, it seems that current plates are stamped with a single die then go into separate coating/painting streams. If there are distinct logos then you need distinct dies. I don't know how interchangeable and flexible they are.

I'm surprised they haven't tried to float a change in colour (away from 'Liberal blue') and a change to the trillium logo. Disruption for disruption's sake.

In the past, the law enforcement community has been against going to a single plate. Obviously, it limits the ability - by 50% - for the public and police to identify vehicles involved in crimes such as hit-and-run as well as automated licence plate readers. Admittedly, other jurisdictions have done it and life has gone on.
 
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