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Offline Squidward von Squidderson

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Ontario Finance Minister Resigns
« on: December 31, 2020, 01:46:26 pm »
After the government telling everyone to stay home, don’t go anywhere for the holidays, the Finance Minister, Rod Phillips, goes on a Caribbean vacation.  He also tried to hide the fact.   Now he has resigned.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5858285

They hypocrisy is stunning.  Tone deaf.  Unsafe.

Imagine if everyone ignored the health advice like this guy, who is part of the government relaying the ‘stay home’ message.  The place would be an entire shambles;  hospitals would be overrun with patients, COVID would be rampant.  But those health orders are for you and I....   the privileged few don’t need to worry about that, as long as the plebs do what they’re told.

Important questions remain...   what did Ford know about it and. What did he do to stop it?

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« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2020, 01:54:10 pm »
After the government telling everyone to stay home, don’t go anywhere for the holidays, the Finance Minister, Rod Phillips, goes on a Caribbean vacation.  He also tried to hide the fact.   Now he has resigned.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5858285

They hypocrisy is stunning.  Tone deaf.  Unsafe.

Imagine if everyone ignored the health advice like this guy, who is part of the government relaying the ‘stay home’ message.  The place would be an entire shambles;  hospitals would be overrun with patients, COVID would be rampant.  But those health orders are for you and I....   the privileged few don’t need to worry about that, as long as the plebs do what they’re told.

Important questions remain...   what did Ford know about it and. What did he do to stop it?
I applaud him for resigning.  There's been over a dozen high profile Democrats caught doing the same thing, and none of them have resigned. 
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Re: Ontario Finance Minister Resigns
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2020, 01:58:07 pm »
I applaud him for resigning.  There's been over a dozen high profile Democrats caught doing the same thing, and none of them have resigned.

What does this have to do with America? 

You do know that we live in a different country, with different political parties and different government houses, don’t you?

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« Reply #3 on: December 31, 2020, 02:06:16 pm »
What does this have to do with America? 

You do know that we live in a different country, with different political parties and different government houses, don’t you?
Yes, I'm glad he resigned.  I'm just pointing out that almost all politicians caught doing similar things, haven't.  In fact, I think he's the only one.
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Re: Ontario Finance Minister Resigns
« Reply #4 on: December 31, 2020, 03:18:08 pm »
I applaud him for resigning.  There's been over a dozen high profile Democrats caught doing the same thing, and none of them have resigned.

Applaud him for resigning? He had no ethical choice.

It's estimated that 25% of Americans are travelling over Christmas. That's why the country is so **** up.
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« Reply #5 on: December 31, 2020, 03:22:47 pm »
Applaud him for resigning? He had no ethical choice.

It's estimated that 25% of Americans are travelling over Christmas. That's why the country is so **** up.
Why haven’t other politicians had the same ethical choice?  Perhaps Americans are fed up with the hypocrisy of the politicians telling them to stay home.  I can’t say I blame them.
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« Reply #6 on: December 31, 2020, 03:43:19 pm »
Why haven’t other politicians had the same ethical choice?  Perhaps Americans are fed up with the hypocrisy of the politicians telling them to stay home.  I can’t say I blame them.

Dumb and dumber has never been a great strategy.
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« Reply #7 on: December 31, 2020, 03:49:07 pm »
Why haven’t other politicians had the same ethical choice?  Perhaps Americans are fed up with the hypocrisy of the politicians telling them to stay home.  I can’t say I blame them.
You're upset about Trump going to Mar-a-lago? I think the indoor rallies without masks were a sign of worse judgment.

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« Reply #8 on: December 31, 2020, 03:52:01 pm »
Dumb and dumber has never been a great strategy.
Fair enough.

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Re: Ontario Finance Minister Resigns
« Reply #9 on: December 31, 2020, 04:02:34 pm »
I applaud him for resigning.  There's been over a dozen high profile Democrats caught doing the same thing, and none of them have resigned.

He was fired.  He was forced to resign.
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« Reply #10 on: December 31, 2020, 04:08:04 pm »
I'd like to know why this guy was able to leave the country for a vacation in the first place.  And I agree we need to know if Ford knew this guy was leaving for vacation.
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« Reply #11 on: December 31, 2020, 05:04:52 pm »
I'd like to know why this guy was able to leave the country for a vacation in the first place.  And I agree we need to know if Ford knew this guy was leaving for vacation.

Ford said he didn't know Phillips had gone but found out he was there after the fact and didn't tell him to get his ass home until after it became public. I guess that's possible
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« Reply #12 on: December 31, 2020, 05:30:48 pm »
Ford said he didn't know Phillips had gone but found out he was there after the fact and didn't tell him to get his ass home until after it became public. I guess that's possible

Highly unlikely...   Ministers inform the Permier’s Office of all their travels...   unless the guy didn’t even do that...   but it doesn’t seem believable.  More likely is that Ford knew and they assumed they could keep it secret.

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« Reply #13 on: December 31, 2020, 05:32:16 pm »
Trump posts and Shady’s insults were deleted.  Keep it on topic, at least somewhat.  We have many Trump and other COVID threads.
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« Reply #14 on: December 31, 2020, 05:33:24 pm »
Highly unlikely...   Ministers inform the Permier’s Office of all their travels...   unless the guy didn’t even do that...   but it doesn’t seem believable.  More likely is that Ford knew and they assumed they could keep it secret.

I also think it is possible that Ford didn't know he had gone and when he found out, hoped it would remain a secret.
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