{"id":1934,"date":"2017-03-29T08:42:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T12:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=1934"},"modified":"2017-03-29T05:47:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T09:47:34","slug":"wynne-liberals-need-to-stop-the-hydro-ads-and-raise-awareness-for-fentanyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/29\/wynne-liberals-need-to-stop-the-hydro-ads-and-raise-awareness-for-fentanyl\/","title":{"rendered":"Wynne Liberals need to stop the hydro ads and raise awareness for fentanyl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mar 29, 2017 @ 08:42<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Wynne Liberal Government has spent nearly a million dollars on self-congratulatory ads touting a non-existent hydro scheme, while ignoring a growing opioid crisis that\u2019s spreading across Ontario. Today during Question Period, Ontario PC Leader Patrick Brown asked the Premier to stop the hydro ads and direct the money into a public awareness campaign on the dangers of fentanyl and opioids.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lethal dose of pure fentanyl is as little as 2 milligrams, the weight of 32 grains of table salt or even seven poppy seeds. Preventable deaths are tragically happening across this province,\u201d said Brown. \u201cThere is a limited advertising budget that the government has. Right now it\u2019s being spent, according to the Auditor General, on self-congratulatory ads \u2013 partisan Liberal hydro ads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Brown pointed out that the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police, the Ontario Provincial Police, and Ottawa Public Health have all launched some form of an awareness campaign while we\u2019ve heard \u201ccrickets from this government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill you stop the hydro ads and put every cent into this fentanyl crisis? It\u2019s the right thing to do,\u201d asked Brown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 29, 2017 @ 08:42 The Wynne Liberal Government has spent nearly a million dollars on self-congratulatory ads touting a non-existent hydro scheme, while ignoring a growing opioid crisis that\u2019s spreading across Ontario. Today during Question Period, Ontario PC Leader Patrick Brown asked the Premier to stop the hydro ads and direct the money into &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,38],"tags":[246],"class_list":["post-1934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-provincial","tag-fentanyl"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 16:08:30","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\/1934","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1935,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions\/1935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}