{"id":83727,"date":"2026-06-06T07:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T11:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=83727"},"modified":"2026-06-06T07:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T11:50:10","slug":"fords-crumbling-conservatives-flee-to-the-cottage-while-fumbling-ontarios-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/fords-crumbling-conservatives-flee-to-the-cottage-while-fumbling-ontarios-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford\u2019s Crumbling Conservatives Flee to the Cottage While Fumbling Ontario\u2019s Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Liberal-Red.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-74533\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Liberal-Red-300x105.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Liberal-Red-300x105.png 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Liberal-Red.png 522w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>One day after the Doug Ford Conservatives adjourned the Legislature early \u2013 and until after Thanksgiving \u2013 the FAO\u2019s Economic Monitor confirms that Ontario\u2019s economy continues to stumble under this Conservative government. Stephanie Bowman, MPP for Don Valley West and Ontario Liberal Finance &amp; Trade Critic says, \u201cInstead of focusing on the fundamentals that drive economic growth, the self-interested Doug Ford Conservative government has fled to the cottage while 700,000 Ontarians look for work.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Ontario households continue to struggle with the high cost of groceries and gas. Food <\/i><i>inflation is 6.8%, and the FAO estimates higher gas prices will cost the average household an <\/i><i>additional $648 in 2026\u2014further squeezing household budgets.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Businesses are facing uncertainty that is holding back investment decisions and delaying <\/i><i>expansion plans. This means fewer jobs for families and workers, especially young people <\/i><i>here in Ontario. 53,000 Ontarians lost their job in the first quarter of 2026, the steepest loss <\/i><i>since 2009, excluding the pandemic. Behind these statistics is a worker, a family, or a young <\/i><i>person worried about their future. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Under this self-interested Doug Ford Conservative government, which is spending millions <\/i><i>on self-promoting, delusional ads, Ontario\u2019s economy continues to underperform the rest of <\/i><i>Canada. After eight years in office, the Premier still has no plan to help young people find <\/i><i>their first job or make groceries and the cost of housing more affordable.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Instead of investing in projects that would create jobs and ease the cost-of-living crisis for <\/i><i>consumers, the out-of-touch Doug Ford Conservative government chooses to waste taxpayer <\/i><i>money on vanity projects and making their insider friends rich. Ontarians deserve a <\/i><i>government focused on delivering results, not advertisements. Never has a government <\/i><i>spent so much to deliver so little.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day after the Doug Ford Conservatives adjourned the Legislature early \u2013 and until after Thanksgiving \u2013 the FAO\u2019s Economic Monitor confirms that Ontario\u2019s economy continues to stumble under this Conservative government. Stephanie Bowman, MPP for Don Valley West and Ontario Liberal Finance &amp; Trade Critic says, \u201cInstead of focusing on the fundamentals that drive &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":74533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 08:11:37","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\/83727","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83728,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83727\/revisions\/83728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}