{"id":15272,"date":"2018-09-06T22:35:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T02:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=15272"},"modified":"2018-09-06T22:35:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T02:35:16","slug":"official-opposition-responds-to-fords-patronage-appointment-of-his-family-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/06\/official-opposition-responds-to-fords-patronage-appointment-of-his-family-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Opposition responds to Ford\u2019s patronage appointment of his family lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taras Natyshak, NDP MPP for Essex, released the following statement regarding the appointment of Gavin Tighe, long-time Ford\u2019s family lawyer and campaign donor, to chair the Public Accountants Council for the Province of Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cDoug Ford has given his family\u2019s lawyer, Gavin Tighe, a $667,000 government contract with the Public Accountants Council. This looks like yet another pricey patronage appointment for Ford\u2019s friends and insiders \u2013 one that serves Ford and his friends, but not people or the province. Just like Ford\u2019s decision to give his campaign advisor and political supporter Reuben Devlin a $1 million contract, with this new appointment, Ontarians are footing a big bill for Ford to repay favours to friends.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taras Natyshak, NDP MPP for Essex, released the following statement regarding the appointment of Gavin Tighe, long-time Ford\u2019s family lawyer and campaign donor, to chair the Public Accountants Council for the Province of Ontario. &nbsp; \u201cDoug Ford has given his family\u2019s lawyer, Gavin Tighe, a $667,000 government contract with the Public Accountants Council. This looks &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[1684],"class_list":["post-15272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorials","tag-public-accountants-council"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-05 15:05:32","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\/15272","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=15272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15273,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15272\/revisions\/15273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}