Only the other day, I was saying: The objective is to run the government in accord with their dogma. They are not running it for you. The front page Toronto Star exclusive by reporter Bruce Arthur this morning tells the story. Despite all of Doug Ford’s bluster about ramping up the covid-19 testing in the province, insiders are telling us that the government has been giving us smoke and mirrors.
They lie to us. Since early April there has no political support for ramping up testing. It was a trick, some in the Ford government learned in the dying days of the Harper government in Ottawa. It was open knowledge that at the time when Tony Clement was president of the treasurer board and no matter what was announced from which minister’s office, the funds were controlled, and, in many cases, held back by treasury.
The promise by Premier Ford was that the number of covid-19 tests per day targeted over the summer was 100,000. When you think of all those parents who lined up with their children to be tested in August—it was to no avail.
If you can read all the copy Arthur produced this morning, you will come to the conclusion in the final sentence. The province will be able to process 100,000 tests per day this coming January.
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