{"id":74341,"date":"2025-06-04T21:25:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T01:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=74341"},"modified":"2025-06-04T21:53:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T01:53:43","slug":"ndp-shameful-day-for-the-province-doug-ford-needs-to-reverse-course-on-bill-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/04\/ndp-shameful-day-for-the-province-doug-ford-needs-to-reverse-course-on-bill-5\/","title":{"rendered":"NDP: Shameful day for the province, Doug Ford needs to reverse course on Bill 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/OntarioNDP.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-71973 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/OntarioNDP-300x108.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/OntarioNDP-300x108.png 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/OntarioNDP-600x216.png 600w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/OntarioNDP.png 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Marit Stiles, Leader of the Official Opposition NDP is calling on the Premier to repeal Bill 5 after the government rammed through the legislation without consent, consultation, or debate:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cThis is a shameful day for our province,\u201d said Marit Stiles. \u201cDoug Ford and his government have silenced communities, shut down debate, and pulled out all the stops to force through legislation that is nothing but a thinly veiled power grab.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cToday, the government gave themselves unprecedented power, to create no-law zones anywhere they want, to do whatever they want. Premier Ford is using Donald Trump\u2019s tariff threats to give himself the power to do away with laws with the stroke of a pen. They are ignoring their treaty obligations. But the fight against Bill 5 is far from over.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cWe know what happened when the government forced through the Notwithstanding clause, when they attacked the rights of workers, when they carved up the Greenbelt for their insiders \u2013 the people of Ontario fought back.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cPremier Ford needs to reverse course before it\u2019s too late. Repeal Bill 5.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marit Stiles, Leader of the Official Opposition NDP is calling on the Premier to repeal Bill 5 after the government rammed through the legislation without consent, consultation, or debate: \u201cThis is a shameful day for our province,\u201d said Marit Stiles. \u201cDoug Ford and his government have silenced communities, shut down debate, and pulled out all &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":71973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-provincial"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 05:22:33","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\/74341","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74346,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74341\/revisions\/74346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}