{"id":13766,"date":"2018-07-04T20:44:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T00:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=13766"},"modified":"2018-07-04T20:44:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T00:44:30","slug":"horwath-doug-ford-governing-by-backroom-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/04\/horwath-doug-ford-governing-by-backroom-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Horwath &#8211; Doug Ford governing by backroom deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Doug Ford appears to be governing from backrooms, making changes to laws in secret, without disclosing who asked for those changes, or who he consulted with. Three separate regulations scheduled to come into effect over the long weekend were quietly postponed indefinitely, with no public notice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one voted for business to be conducted in secret, behind closed doors,\u201d said Horwath. \u201cAnd I\u2019m sure no one voted to have a premier that would listen to influencers and lobbyists while shutting out everyday people affected by the laws. Ford seems to believe the public doesn\u2019t deserve information about what he\u2019s up to and why, and that\u2019s wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The three laws indefinitely postponed include:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A regulation of the <em>Smoke-Free Ontario Act<\/em> that was to come into force July 1, which addressed things like vaping in daycares<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Safer Ontario Act, which was also supposed to come into force over the long weekend<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The regulation that would have capped the price\u00a0scalpers and their scalper-bots can charge for event tickets, putting a 50-percent-higher limit on ticket resellers \u2013 a regulation that was also to come into force on July 1.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Ford is already moving our province backwards with the cancellation of cap and trade, the downgrading of vital ministries and the roll-back of universal drug coverage for children. Now, to make matters worse \u2013 he\u2019s making decisions in secret, without explanation. People deserve to know who has had Mr. Ford\u2019s ear on these issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Doug Ford appears to be governing from backrooms, making changes to laws in secret, without disclosing who asked for those changes, or who he consulted with. Three separate regulations scheduled to come into effect over the long weekend were quietly postponed indefinitely, with no public notice. &nbsp; \u201cNo one voted for business to be &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 14:07:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13767,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766\/revisions\/13767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}