Jun 28, 2017 @ 21:43<\/b><\/p>\n
Statement from Ontario PC Leader and PC Education Critic Patrick Brown on the government\u2019s announcement about northern and rural Ontario schools at risk of closure:<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe Ontario PCs are proud to have led the charge against the government\u2019s arbitrary and cold-hearted school closures. \u00a0But today\u2019s announcement does nothing for schools in cities throughout the province that remain on the chopping block, including schools that <\/em>service students with special needs and schools that are operating at nearly 100 per cent capacity.<\/em><\/p>\n \n \u201cToday\u2019s announcement doesn\u2019t change the fact that the Wynne Liberals have tried to make up for years of Liberal mismanagement on the backs of local schools and students. This government\u2019s legacy is more schools closed than any other government in our province\u2019s history. Since 2004 the Liberals have closed over 700 schools.<\/em><\/p>\n \n \u201cJust months ago the PCs called for a moratorium on school closures until there is a review process that is fair, but the Wynne Liberals voted it down. \u00a0Now, a year out from an election, they have apparently changed their minds.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \n \u201cRural and Northern Ontario <\/em>have been nothing but an afterthought to this government. They only seem to acknowledge their existence when an election rolls around.<\/em><\/p>\n \n \u201cThis government\u2019s record will continue to speak for itself.\u00a0If they win next election this will only go back to their old ways, and break this promise the first chance they get.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jun 28, 2017 @ 21:43 Statement from Ontario PC Leader and PC Education Critic Patrick Brown on the government\u2019s announcement about northern and rural Ontario schools at risk of closure: …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-northern-ontario","category-provincial"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 00:00:01","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\/4719","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=4719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4720,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719\/revisions\/4720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}