u/Kliene

Fair warning this is gonna be a long somewhat repetitive at times (sorry, half-asleep) rant. If you haven’t already, I would suggest reading Lack of right to strike and reading up everything Ford, Carney, etc, have been doing.

 

We, our children, and future generations have a RIGHT to a liveable wage, housing, healthy environment, and so much more.

 

These Canadian oligarchs from Doug Ford to many others, some listed below, work in public service and yet they're working to line their own pockets and the pockets of others (The grocery oligopoly/cartel: Loblaws - Willard Galen Garfield Weston, Sobeys - Pierre St-Laurent, and Metros - Eric R. La Flèche, etc).

 

Our amazing nurses/healthcare workers are looking to go on strike, as they should! Ford/oligarchs and the ones who support him, will try to force them to return to work, all while Ford barely works (Ford government embarks on extended 21-week break).

 

A general strike is needed, honestly.

 

In the article, the hospitals state: "a move hospitals are calling deeply troubling" and, "The Ontario Hospital Association urged ONA to abandon what it called a "reckless challenge to legislation that protects patients from unnecessary risk." - Pay people what they're owed and a liveable wage. If nurses and the like are so important to the system that the oligarchs need to keep them from going on strike or the like, then clearly, they are needed desperately... so PAY THEM instead of constantly giving people like Kirk/others like him pay bumps without question?

 

"Patients do not choose when they need care, and hospitals must always be there for them," Kirk LeMessurier, chief of communications and public affairs at the OHA, wrote in a statement," who has a salary of $223,851.05 and who used to make $192,351.15 in 2019? Come on.

 

Quite a lot of audacity to say that when, if hospitals must always be there for them, then hospitals should also be there for their staff? Pay your workers a proper wage, it isn't rocket science. Again, if they wanted to they would. No, buying pizza or something to "celebrate" healthcare workers, the very ones these people say can't have a liveable wage and are forced back to work, is not a substitute for a liveable wage...

 

Everyone should earn a liveable wage. But then you see management and those in upper-level positions getting pay bumps after pay bumps. But no, oligarchs like Doug Ford and the rest of them (from conservatives, liberals and more. It's a class war people) would rather give police an increase in funds, buy a plane, etc...

 

Look at what some of the members of the oligarchs, or who work for the oligarchs, who are a part of the Ontario Hospital Association make:

Name	Position	Salary
Anthony Dabs	President and Chief Executive Officer	$524,648.71
Hasin Hasan	Vice President, Business Planning and Strategy	$403,416.57
David Brooks	Vice President, Labour Relations and Chief Labour Officer	$355,332.33
Anthony Jamker	Vice President, Data and Analytics	$315,978.27
Melissa Prekopy	Vice President, Pharmacy	$315,978.27
Imhaf Dusdar	Chief Innovation and Transformation Officer	$233,727.11
Sandeep Sodhi	Chief Strategy, Member Relations, and Long-Term Care	$227,934.93

 

Look at what they make compared to the nurses and healthcare workers in the frontline who work tirelessly. They have the audacity to lecture nurses/healthcare workers about not going on strike while they make this much??? If frontline workers like nurses/healthcare workers are so important that them going on strike will lead to harm to citizens then... clearly their jobs are NEEDED and they should be getting paid what they're owed versus Ford throwing money at who tf knows and buying a jet using whatever excuse he can find.

 

You can also look here at the Public Sector Salary Disclosure For 2025 and Sunshine List, for other sectors:

Name	Position	Salary
Hartwick, Kenneth	Ontario Power Generation	$1,907,408.69
Butcher, Nicolle	Ontario Power Generation, Special Advisor	$1,596,218.20
Gregoris, Steve	Ontario Power Generation, President and Chief Executive Officer	$1,092,854.84
Cipolla, Aida	Ontario Power Generation, Chief Nuclear Officer	$1,013,496.00
Sinnathamby, Subo	Ontario Power Generation, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer	$981,475.74
Smith, Kevin	Ontario Power Generation, Chief Projects Officer	$939,603.00
Cohn, Ronald	University Health Network, President and Chief Executive Officer	$880,013.40
Knutson, Mark	The Hospital For Sick Children, President and Chief Executive Officer	$856,947.43
Franke, Jon	Ontario Power Generation, Chief Enterprise Engineering and Chief Nuclear Engineer	$826,655.46
Fuller, Mark	Ontario Power Generation, Senior Vice President Nuclear	$826,235.89

 

WHY are they making so much while the healthcare system and others are collapsing? While our nurses and healthcare workers, teachers, social service workers, etc., are having their wages frozen and denied the salaries they're owed? God forbid we tax the oligarchs to fund our nation. Look at all what Mamdani has done without cutting social services and public supports? Honestly, for someone to be paid sm while our public services/workers suffer is crazy... like, $1,907,408.69 (Hartwick, Kenneth) is INSANITY! The number of nurses, for example, that could be hired and have a liveable wage from that...

 

Look at the USA. Populations and citizens who are less educated, or poorly educated, are more likely to vote against their own benefits/needs/rights and so on. You get people to vote for you (and against their own rights, freedoms and benefits) by pushing teachers out the profession because of poor pay, support, increasing the number of students per teacher/classroom while dismantling and also ruining OSAP to limit postsecondary education to certain demographics. I'm sure you know who. I'll touch more on this later.

 

These people, the oligarchs, are a blight upon our world. Doug Ford, the cons to liberals, it doesn't matter. Ford, Carney, PP, etc., support the oligarchs and ARE a part of the oligarch class. It's a class war at its core. Not a gender war, race war, or whatever the oligarchs want to have everyone outside of the oligarchy believe.

 

How can children have a future if healthcare is being torn apart to be privatized by Ford and the oligarchs, groceries are unaffordable because of the grocery oligarchy and wages stagnating. These people won't even make life affordable for the the very children they speak about in C-22 who go hungry because their families can't afford groceries cause of these artificially inflated prices by the grocery oligarchs?

 

The education system is being taken apart because of "cuts" to funding and whatever bs they'll try to sell us, look at what was done to OSAP, the healthcare system is being starved leading to increased wait times (leading to children/everyone not getting the support they need in a timely manner), poorer care and healthcare providers leaving the healthcare system. How many people could have gotten the support, whether healthcare (catching illness or the like early to provide support before it's too late or other issues arise) which includes children not being able to get assessed or attain supports they need (I'll touch on this more later).

 

We talk about boys falling behind in education and I genuinely want to know how deep the link between these services being destroyed has with these boys, who would have gotten assessed and gained further supports (medical, education wise such as better support from teachers/schools if there was proper funding versus larger class sizes, etc), how things would turn out for them? That isn't to say that girls are getting the supports while boys are not.

 

It's a matter that girls tend to be socialized differently that leads to them being undiagnosed for so long because they may still attain the grades needed, no disruptions in class, overt behaviour concerns due to masking and so on. Is it a wonder that more boys, who grow to be men one day, aren't attending post-secondary at the same rates as girls/women and are more likely to vote for the very people who are cutting these supports? Look at the USA and you'll see that Ford, and many others, are following the same method in starving our systems (education, healthcare and further) while they push more and more towards fascism/capitalism.

 

Privatizing and selling off public services lead to poorer outcomes. Ford, Carney, Harper, PP, Harris and the rest of the oligarchs will give whatever lie wrapped up in pretty wrapping paper that selling off… let's say our airport industry will help Canada, but it will only lead to citizens suffering. These people will use whatever excuse they can to privatize our public services/systems from healthcare, education, long-term care and the list goes on.

 

Question who Ford, Carney, Cons/Liberals, etc, are they trying to sell our systems and the like off to?

 

Carney is an oligarch and supports oligarchs. He clearly does not care and is like other oligarchs. It doesn't matter if it's a liberal or conservative government. Though I acknowledge with Carney there wasn't the fear/likelihood (for now?) of having certain rights stripped away and other things (particularly with the orange buffoon down south) that were potentially at risk with PP.

Moving on…

 

Edith Dumont is the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. Her salary isn't disclosed, but we know it's likely an excessive amount and for what? She's the governor and does nothing while Ontario is plundered by oligarchs. But, she's also an oligarch. They all work together, hiring one another, covering for one another, and so on. Dumont should be removed from her position alongside Ford. Neither of them cares for nor is working in the best interests of Ontario and its citizens. But ofc, she won't because she moves in the same circle as Ford, Carney, PP and other oligarchs.

 

Like I said, this isn't just happening in Ontario/Canada. This is an active attempt worldwide by the oligarchs (call them whatever you want. Politicians/Epstein class/CEOs/celebrities/it doesn't matter).

 

| Info ---|--- 1| Stephen Harper is the current chairman of The International Democrat Union (IDU). 2| The IDU is a global alliance of right-wing parties and danger to the world. When I say "right-wing parties," it's oligarchs. Whether they dress themselves up in blue, red, pink, idgaf, they are wolves in sheep's clothing. 3| The IDU has Ambassador Terry Miller, the Director of the Center for International Trade and Economics, The Heritage Foundation (THF). 4| The Heritage Foundation is part of the IDU along with many others. 5| THF backs Trump and everyone else who is a part of it (Heritage Foundation Staff) 6| Israel/Zionism: Likud is a full member its chairman is H.E. Benjamin Netanyahu. 7| The USA has always been abnormally supportive of Israel, from funding and providing them with weapons to trying to defend and absolve them of their crimes against humanity. 8| Israel/Netanyahu/IDF are committing genocide against Palestinians and now the citizens of Lebanon. 9| Palantir Technologies, co-owned by Peter Thiel, works with ICE, GEO, the IDF. As of recently, will access the healthcare information of UK citizens (or something of the like. Please let me know if I have misconstrued anything). Remember Bill C-22. 10| Peter Thiel is a fascist nazi and is in the Epstein files just like the rapist, pedophile Trump. Bro is legit yapping about the antichrist and, idk if that's from all the drugs these freaks are using, but these oligarchs are psychos. 11| Peter Thiel is backing/funding JD Vance. There's a reason Vance is barely being seen or mentioned as much right now with everyone hating on Trump/his administration. Thiel and the rest of these oligarchs are hoping Vance can still run for president after. Vance would be their tool to implement changes to laws, rights, and so on, to push forward what oligarchs want. Again, this is seen worldwide with the wealthy wanting to have one of their own as a PM/President to reap the benefits (i.e. see the states). 12| Trump is backed by the Heritage Foundation and has Netanyahu/Israel using him as their sock puppet. America is quickly falling into a fascist state with ICE becoming their personal army and innocent people being sent to, and let's be real, concentration camps. 13| IDU, remember it's backed by Harper who also is all for Pierre Poilievre and supported him, and The Heritage Foundation go hand-in-hand. What you see happening in the states and elsewhere, again take a look at the IDU members, is what Harper/PP/Conservatives/oligarchs/ want here. This includes Doug Ford. 14| A mass surveillance state is what the USA, UK and many other countries are rushing towards under the guise of safety, protection and often, child safety... despite them doing everything to keep children unsafe and ruin their futures??? Don't forget Bill C-22 in Canada they're are trying to shove down our throats. Cutting education funding, healthcare, social services, destroying the environment and so on, while spouting shit about ID should be needed to access the internet, etc., to keep children safe. Release the files and arrest those monsters??? 15| Bill C-22 is being desperately pushed by the Liberals, conservatives, oligarchs and the like, particularly by Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree. Who has been caught doing sm... He had urged Canadian Immigration to approve the application of a member of the Tamil Tigers, a terrorist group. This doesn't even consider the leaked conversation he had with a tenant. How is this man talking about child safety when he wanted to allow a terrorist into the country??? 16| How soon do you think the oligarch class of Canada will try to sign or work with Palantir or something similar with the goal of a mass surveillance state?

 

Look into who they’re trying to sell off Ontario to. It all goes back to American companies and many of the people in the above list. Look at who owns these companies. We have that David McGuinty bending over for Palantir. What do you think these oligarchs want to use mass surveillance for? It's not to protect children. Because protecting and helping children means ensuring healthcare, social services (child welfare services, autism services, etc.), education, and so on, are funded.

It means ensuring housing is available to everyone so people aren't forced to live in unsafe situations, from DV to being unhoused (leading to increased chances of assault, SA, CSA, death, trafficking, etc), and ensuring a liveable wage means people can afford what they need to care for themselves and their children. Healthy food, clothing, supports/services, etc. But no, these people will try to push Bill C-22 as protecting children. I can honestly continue yapping about the above further with more info but that will be a separate post.

 

You'll also see that these oligarch class members are on the sunshine list or elsewhere. You'll see how many are either a part of and/or know others from the IDU, Heritage Foundation and other organizations whose focus is dismantling democracy.

 

Why don't we have true universal healthcare, universal dental care, and so on if these people care about children so much? Why are so many citizens (ofc, children... which I highlight since they always talk about protecting children) starving and struggling while the oligarch class predators eat endlessly off golden plates? They always have money to fund wars and genocide but never have funds when it comes to caring for their own citizens. Look at how hard the British Royal Family worked to protect Pedophile and Rapist former Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (how much money has the UK government and rapist pedophile Andrew's mother, colonizer Elizabeth, spend protecting him?). Protecting kids is what these people say worldwide when they're the ones causing harm to children directly or indirectly. Make it make sense.

 

Ford will thank nurses/healthcare workers during Covid while spitting in their faces. Healthcare workers who worked endlessly through Covid, some who had lost their lives to Covid, and Ford showed his thanks by ensuring their wages stay stagnated... Taxing these oligarch leeches will help fund/support and voting them out (OR NOT VOTING FOR THEM AT ALL?!) will lead to so many changes like:

Funding for:

• Healthcare.

• Long-term care.

• Education.

• Child Welfare.

• Daycare, childcare, etc.

• Programs, supports and things for children.

• Transportation.

• Accessibility to all the above.

• Social Services.

• Autism, ADHD and other services for children.

• I state this separately as kids fall through the gaps and don't get the support they need ASAP.
• These children see lower grades, ability to make friends/socialize, post-secondary education, overall ability to attain a job, leads to isolation, overall worse well-being and happiness, etc.
• How can these children be expected to succeed if families cannot get them the supports they need? o Children who need further support and their families suffer so much.
• Parents burn out, unable to help their children or support them, and for some of these children, they cannot live independently, which means their parents will be their lifelong caregivers.

Changes to laws, regulations and rights regarding:

• Housing.

• Renting.

• Environmental protections.

• Long-term care.

• So many suffer because of Mike Harris and the privatization of these services.
• Look at how many seniors, people who deserved AND ARE OWED proper long-term care, died during Covid.
• Though I want to say murder because this was all a direct result of the cuts to services and privatization of services.
• Oligarch Mike Harris is on the boards for Magna International and Chartwell Retirement Residences.

• Transportation.

• How is our public transportation so bad across the BOARD if it isn't intentional (for the oil, gas, automotive industry, etc).

• Oligarchs like Ford or others/supporters either drag their feet on any new projects that would improve transportation from city to city, within a city/town, etc., and lead to more people being able to use public transport effectively.

• But… that leads to less use or need for vehicles. Seriously, during COVID, how much were people saving with oil, car maintenance, insurance, etc?

• If you've been anywhere that has good public transport (China, Japan, SK, hell, the UK, etc) then you know the potential that is being kept from us.

• Who would be affected the most financially if proper transportation (buses, subways, etc.) were implemented? The automotive and insurance industries come to mind.

• Magna International is a manufacturer for automakers, and the same company that oligarch Mike Harris is on the board for.

• The founder of Magna International is Oligarch Frank Stronach and he is also the founder of the Stronach Group.

• This bum founded Team Stronach for Austria, a right-wing and Eurosceptic party that was dissolved in 2017.

• In 2024 Oligarch Frank Stronach was charged with rape, indecent assault against a woman, sexual assault and 1 forcible account of forcible confinement, and the list goes on. Just to give you an idea of what he, and a good majority (if not all, tbh) Oligarchs are like. Also, reminder that Ford and his government voted down Lydia's law (Ford government votes down bill to strengthen sexual assault court cases), a bill proposed by the NDP to improve tracking/handling of SA cases in court. Why strike that down??

• The US automotive industry has had a big part us just being able to access vehicles from China and elsewhere, but also in implementing proper transportation and the like.

• Tele-oligarchy needs to stopped, idc. Similar to government run grocery stores but for this needs to be created.

• Why tf does Rogers, Bell, etc., continue to get away with bleeding us dry? All of these oligarchs/wealthy are working to take every cent they can from us.

• Grocery-oligarchy.

• Like Avi Lewis, NDP leader, stated, we need government-run grocery stores or something because these prices are insane.

• Healthcare.

• How dare Ford and other oligarchs try to privatize our services???

• Healthcare needs to be TRULY universal and not tied to employment.

• Universal dental care for everyone.

• Universal pharmacare.

• Why is therapy, counselling, eye care, physiotherapy and more not covered. Fr, I could yap forever.

• Why isn't bloodwork for Vit D and the like covered in Ontario? Cause of Ford, ofc...

• Ford and his buddies are working so hard to ensure that, for example, Shoppers Drug Mart (which is owned by Loblaws) can provide more services or the pharmacist is. Again, look at who owns shoppers and makes a profit off this WHILE the healthcare sector is systematically destroyed to let Ford privatize it (and everything he can get his hands on).

• Employment.

• Mandated sick days. Who is Ford, and other oligarchs, to strip away those benefits?? Bro, Ford's teletubby self barely works and, really, that whole family...

• Stagnated wages. These oligarchs would pay us NOTHING if they could.

• Better protections overall, across the board, and improved benefits.

• Privacy laws/rights.

• Stop Palantir and other "services" like it.

• Bill C-22, and others trying to create a surveillance state under the guise of child safety.

• Dismantling monopolies from the grocery-oligarchy, Tele-oligarchy and so on.

 

Galen Weston Jr. is a member of the Weston Family, chairman + CEO of George Weston Limited and Chairman of Loblaw Companies Limited Ownership. Oligarch Galen Weston Jr., and his oligarch ilk, own… Real Canadian Superstore, No Frills, Fortinos, Shoppers Drug Mart (take a look at where oligarch Galen Weston Jr. has had his slimy hands in regard to taking apart/privatizing healthcare to benefit his wallet), No name and the list goes on. This is just one oligarch, too. Someone who oligarch Ford and many support… and just as oligarch Ford supports Weston Jr, oligarch Galen Weston Jr. supports Ford.

 

Seriously, look at George Weston Limited:

• The founder is George Weston, who is the great-grandfather of oligarch Galen Weston Jr.

• Oligarch Galen Weston Jr. is the CEO/Chairman of George Weston Limited.

• George Weston Limited is the parent company of:

• Choice Properties REIT, a real estate investment trust. Rael L. Diamond as the CEO/President.

• Loblaw Companies Limited. Galen Weston Jr. is the Chairman.

• The company majority is owned by Wittington Investments Limited, a holding company. Chairman: Sir Guy Weston (Yes, he's a part of the Weston family).

• There is one based in Canada and the other in Britain… Both are owned by the Weston Family. The owners are Garfield Weston Foundation and the Weston Family.

 

If you look at how all these oligarch from, not just Canada, but all over are connected, you'll realize how badly they've been harming EVERYONE worldwide. Don't get me started on the war industry and the money made in that. Also, the way SA/CSA and the like go hand-in-hand with these people too often to be not noticed. Once again, reminder of Lydia's law that For and his government shot down. Why are they protecting/helping criminals who commit SA???

 

These oligarchs are IN POSITIONS OF POWER that allow them to implement changes to desecrate, destroy, and dismantle systems for the public, or they have others, oligarchs or people who work for oligarchs, do their bidding for them. It's a club and we're not in it.

 

I'm gonna briefly touch on RTO as it is connected in all this as Return to office benefits the oligarchy greatly, and the reasons are:

• RTO would benefit building owners and the like that companies, organizations, etc., use = money for these people (who oligarch Ford supports, etc).

• Increased foot traffic to retail, restaurants, etc., by RTO workers… once again, people Ford supports and they support him (and other oligarchs in roles similar to Ford).

• Force people to move and return to places like Toronto, for example, to be close to the office… Bringing back demand, increasing rental prices, etc, by enforcing this change… again, this benefits oligarch Ford and other oligarchs.

• Gas: forcing people to RTO = commuting by driving increases = gas use increases = money made by the oil/gas industry/oligarchs = oligarch Ford supports his fellow oligarchs and they support him.

• Commuting increases workers using public transport = leads to those organizations/companies making money = oligarch Ford's buddies, also oligarchs, are happy and they support him with whatever he is trying to pull.

 

In general, just think about how much less was being spent on eating out, buying lunches, buying work clothing, car maintenance/buying new vehicles, daycare, etc. But the most important thing in all this is that RTO keeps people TIRED and BUSY. If you're living paycheque to paycheque, tired from the 9-5 5 days a week which is more of a 8-6 if you include the commute, managing errands/chores like grocery shopping to picking children up from daycare, you have less energy to focus on the news and what Oligarchs like Ford are doing to destroy democracy. You don't have the energy or time to go out and protest if you're burnt out from all the above if you're too busy trying to survive. Also, these people love distracting people from what they're doing by redirecting your attention elsewhere (i.e. Ford jet situation that was all over the news while FOI and other things were going on).

 

Return to office or "work," is labelled as such by the Oligarchs to make it seem like workers are just sitting around at home doing nothing when they're WORKING but it's just from home?? Productivity increased or improved, etc, for many organizations, etc. Ofc there could be variances here and there where people took advantage, but we all know that the reason Ford and other oligarchs supporting him demanded/pushed for RTO. Mind you, Ford doesn't even go to the office. Return To Office or Return To Work isn't a reflection of what is truly happening.

 

It is a Return To Loss Of Control at the hands of the Oligarchy.

 

Return To Loss Of Control (RTLC) is, and is not limited to, the following:

• Losing agency over your work environment (and life).

• Control mechanism used, not just workplaces, but by the Oligarchs.

• Oligarchs want to keep you exhausted and unable to engage/fight back against the slow, now quick, dismantling of our democracy.

• Loss of agency because people were no longer simply living to work and burnt out. People got their work done exceedingly often and had energy/time to be present and live their lives.

• RTLC = commutes/long days and hours = burnout = only a few hours after work to spend on yourself, others and so on.

• RTLC = less time with your children = more time at daycare.

• Less time with your children = not being able to really monitor or have a larger role in their development/education.

• This goes back to the dismantling of our education systems = poorer outcomes for children across the board, particularly with boys.

• Boys doing worse in school = overall poorer outcomes with post-secondary, employment, etc., = cycle of poverty and inability to afford housing, healthcare, etc.

• Loneliness, for boys/men AND girls/women.

• Decrease in relationships/marriages and birthrate (which, I mean… what else would happen??).

• Women/girls tend to be socialized differently compared to boys/men (patriarchy, etc.) that leads to them having more robust support systems and making them more likely to have someone they could reach out to or more of a willingness to access supports.

• Men/boys are less likely to access services for MH and the like, as well as, even when they have friends/family, they are less likely to be vulnerable with them or discuss their struggles/MH because of patriarchy teaching boys/men that boys "don't cry," or to "man up."

• High cost of living leads to:

• Many cannot afford housing and either live with family or roommates and are, either at risk of or ARE, unhoused. People cannot bring partners, dates, and the like to their place of living.

• Dates = unaffordable because of the high cost of living (this accounts for transportation, rent, groceries, etc.).

• Third places are difficult to find and, even then, cost of living is high and many live paycheques to paycheque, so they don't have the funds to spend on this.

• Men and women, particularly in certain generations or demographics, can be seen voting differently. With men voting more conservative and women more liberal (I don't mean our parties in particular here, just the "labels" of conservative and liberal).

• Erosion of women's rights worldwide and the fear that many, women and otherwise, have surrounding that. From abortion rights to voting, etc.

• Men feel increasingly alienated, defeated, and are being pushed towards far right or the like, who:

• Give people, in this case many men/boys, someone to blame, from immigrants, women to whoever these those funded by oligarchs choose.

• Manosphere, incels, and the like, to sell their "product" (aka. Beliefs) to these vulnerable/isolated boys who become men that vote for far-right parties because they're told that xyz is to blame/voting for xyz will help them get the employment, housing, partner, etc, they're owed. Look up who funds these people… you guessed it.

• This goes back to the cuts in healthcare services and the LACK of funding to MH supports that would help everyone, but many of these boys/men. Cuts to autism, ADHD, etc., services/supports and education directly impact boys who "fall behind," which leads to all the above.

• Increase in radical/dangerous behaviours from shootings, increase in crimes, robberies, mental health issues, substance use and so on.

• I want to also touch on the impact the lack of affordable housing, high cost of living and the like have on the safety of children, women and men.

• People are unable to afford to move out or live on their own, therefore they rent/have roommates, live with their family/friends and are unable to leave dangerous situations/relationships.

• How many women and men are forced to stay with an abusive partner and suffer because they cannot afford to leave or divorce them because of the issues listed throughout this yap session?

• Children are forced to live in these situations when their parent(s) or guardian(s) cannot leave to find safe housing.

• Cuts to social services impacts the shelters available to victims of abuse and those attempting to escape it. This includes MH services and the like.

• How do you think children who grow up witnessing or experiencing abuse/DV are impacted? Is that protecting children like so many of these oligarchs and politicians say they want to do with these surveillance laws? Also, how is voting down Lydia's law protecting children at all, Ford???

 

All of this leads to parents being unable to monitor their child as much due to work, burn out and everything else I've yapped about here leads directly to children falling behind. Parents can't be present or able to help or ensure children complete homework or the like, monitor their internet use or who they're spending time with or wtf they're doing and this leads to children suffering/being unsafe. They're more vulnerable to predators online and IRL (which I'm sure some oligarchs want) which makes them also more vulnerable to consuming/being influenced by the bs being fed to them by Oligarchs who want to create a voter base that will vote for their PERSON. I'll touch more on this in a bit.

 

All this creates a cycle of poverty/generational trauma across the board. People cannot afford to live or afford secondary education, that is even if they were able to get the supports/education they needed with the level of destruction with the education system seen at the hands of Doug Ford/Danielle Smith/others like them, which limits ability to reach higher income roles/jobs and be able to afford housing, the cost of living, MH/other services, and more. It's all connected and it's a slow, systematic dismantlement of democracy via the destruction of public services to keep control over the population by making them unable to think of anything but survival (living paycheque to paycheque) to continue to amalgamate the power amongst the oligarchs and those in power.

 

I used "Oligarch Ford" as an example throughout this as he is the one I am most familiar with presently. But oligarchs and supporters of oligarchs like Danielle Smith, are the same and follow the same rule book as Ford + others like him. They all do the same shit as if they're reading the same instruction manual on how to destroy democracy. I'm also saying Oligarch NAME because that's what they are and we need to continue to say it.

 

Oligarchs are not our friends.

 

Yes, celebrities and the like are a part of the Oligarch class no matter how "down to Earth" they seem. Yes, that includes the colonizer Royal Family and other monarchies. Yes, that includes many of the politicians, MPs, etc, we vote for (do you know how many of them own multiple properties they rent out?).

 

It is not the immigrant or refugee who moved to Canada for a better life for their family, or the woman who is choosing not to date or have children, or the man who tries to find support/community online (often in these manosphere groups), or the transman or transwoman who are just trying to live their life, or anyone else who is not from the Oligarch class. No, it's not the nurse/healthcare worker, teacher, child welfare worker, social service worker, airline workers, or any of the like, who are your enemy or should be blamed for wanting to or deciding to go on strike. Trust me, they care for the people that will suffer as a result of the lack of healthcare workers at the hospital because of a strike, the students who are impacted by teachers going on strike, the families and children impacted by child welfare workers going on strike, people impacted by airline workers going on strike, and I can go on.

 

Honestly, do you think nurses/healthcare workers don't care about how this will harm or impact patients? Do you think child welfare workers want children to be abused and that they don't care about the impact it will have on children/families if they were to go on strike? Do you think teachers don't care about how a strike will impact their students? Majority of these jobs aren't easy, and people don't simply spend years of their life in school, training, etc., because they don't care about the people they went into that field to help and work with???

 

People will not continue to stay in these fields after they're burnt out, wages stay stagnated/don't match the cost of living and so on. They'll leave the profession and people won't want to join it either with the what they know they can expect... leading to shortages, like a doctor shortage. A shortage that's a result of a "wage suppression." Ford is already privatizing so many of our services because the systems are being "artificially collapsed" by him. If you complain or are against people striking to get a liveable wage, benefits, etc, then don't cry when the wait times are crazy at the hospitals, you can't find a family physician, class sizes are too large for children to get the support they need, etc, etc...

 

Yet, politicians (Oligarchs) like Ford, will make them seem like the "bad guy" for doing such a thing to people while threatening to mandate them to return to work. If these jobs are so important and it's that dangerous/impactful if they were to go on strike… then pay them a fair wage??? Look at how much Ford had increased his own wages and the others who work with him... Didn't seem to have a problem finding funds there, huh?

 

It's Oligarchs like Ford, and the ones he supports in his dismantlement of our public services to privatize them, who have pushed our tireless nurses/healthcare workers, teachers, child welfare workers, social service workers and beyond, to the point they are going on strike or leaving these fields in droves. Oligarchs don't care about the negative impacts a strike has on people. They don't care about anything but themselves and the impact it'll have on their wallets, image and plans. They have the money to have their own private doctors, tutors/schools for their children and so on. It doesn't impact them.

 

Oligarchs do not care about us.

 

There's no reason we can't have MPs, Mayors, Premiers and a Prime Minister who actually care about people and work from a humanitarian perspective rather than being an Oligarch leech. Even though Zohran Mamdani is the Mayor of New York, and ofc the USA is different in many ways, but elected politicians are to serve the citizens regardless of what city/country/WHATEVER we're talking about, we can see what a true elected official who cares about his people will do for them. Do you see how much good he's doing? How much he genuinely cares about people? About ensuring children have good schooling and access to it, as well as lunches, parents have affordable daycare, liveable wages, well funded and ACCESSIBLE social services and I CAN GO ON???

 

A general strike is the only way, really, and eventually it could happen with how things are going. Sending letters, emails, or whatever, that they won't even look at and put in the equivalent of a blender, to these immoral and depraved people won't really do anything. They don't care about you or us. They only care about money, wealth, and power. Take a look at what's happening in the USA for an idea of what they want in Canada and elsewhere.

 

It's not that Ford, Carney and any of these people in positions of power can't improve services, etc, it's that they don't want to/don't care to. Seriously. They don't want to because there's no benefit to them or their buddies. That's really what it is.

 

That's what they want and, the reason Oligarchs from Doug Ford, Danielle Smith to Harper, Carney, PP, and more, are rushing to push through so many changes, etc. Look at how quickly Trump + his stooges are pushing through laws and other changes before anyone else can come in to reverse it, stop it or people realize what they're trying to do.

 

I'll be honest with saying that I don't know 100% what we can do to ensure that we, and future generations, can do to ensure our democracy is protected and people are cared for... but I see what's happened with Mamdani (and elsewhere) and, along with hope, I think about why can't we try to have that? It's not like Liberals and Cons are the only parties to vote for. Idk. Sorry for the long rant (it will happen again).

 

I hope we can all work together to bring about change and discuss what options we have, including but not limited to protests to strikes. We need to look after each other. In case this is removed or anything, I post backups here and ig, it is a work in progress for discussions?