Doug Ford has hired embattled former British Columbia premier Gordon Campbell to help him with Ontario\u2019s books \u2013 despite Campbell\u2019s having presided over one of the most notorious backroom deal scandals in Canadian history.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs premier, Campbell cut social services, fired scores of public employees and sold off and privatized public assets like ferries and BC Rail\u2019s entire operation,\u201d said NDP MPP Peter Tabuns. \u201cIt was that BC Rail privatization that resulted in Railgate \u2013 after police uncovered a backroom deal that cost people hundreds of millions of dollars. Massive police raids, a huge investigation and multiple guilty pleas for breach of trust is Gordon Campbell\u2019s legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tabuns said there\u2019s no good reason for Ford to bring in a politician to lead an audit \u2013 let alone one famous for cutting and privatizing.<\/p>\n
\u201cInstead of listening to the many non-partisan auditors Ontario already employs, Doug Ford is bringing in a politician to help him execute his plan,\u201d said Tabuns. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty clear this audit is about Ford and Campbell looking for places to cut and things to sell off. He wants someone working for him to do this audit, not the auditors working for the people of Ontario.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ford campaigned on cutting $6 billion from services Ontarians count on \u2013 from health care to children\u2019s classrooms \u2013 but hasn\u2019t yet revealed where the axe will fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Doug Ford has hired embattled former British Columbia premier Gordon Campbell to help him with Ontario\u2019s books \u2013 despite Campbell\u2019s having presided over one of the most notorious backroom deal scandals in Canadian history. \u201cAs premier, Campbell cut social services, fired scores of public employees and sold off and privatized public assets like ferries and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,38],"tags":[1598],"class_list":["post-14187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorials","category-provincial","tag-gordon-campbell"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-05 16:57:19","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\/14187","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14188,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14187\/revisions\/14188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}