Leader of the NDP Opposition tells Premier: the Bill is unconstitutional, always was unconstitutional - apologize to these workers for stealing their wages

By Staff

February 20th, 2024

BURLINGTON, ON

 

Marit Stiles, Leader of the Official Opposition NDP, returned to Question Period after the legislative break focused on holding Ford’s Conservatives accountable for Bill 124, Ontario’s strained healthcare system, worsening housing crisis, and skyrocketing cost-of-living:

NDP :leader of the Opposition letting the Premier know what is on her mind.

“We start this new session with yet another policy reversal – Bill 124, a Bill that is and always was unconstitutional,” said Stiles.

“Will the Premier apologize to these workers for stealing their wages with Bill 124 and finally tell Ontarians how much money they spent fighting hardworking nurses, PSWs, teachers, educational assistants and all public sector workers in court?”

Stiles and the NDP refused to allow Conservatives to distract from their track record of corrupt policies, continuous backtracking and lack of real solutions.

“Our province was already struggling with rampant hallway medicine when this government came in, and their choice to target workers made things even worse. Will he admit his choices worsened the crisis facing our health care system?”

Marit Stiles called on Ford’s Conservatives to focus their next reversal on fixing the mess they caused.

Laser-focused on reversing the damage Ford’s Conservatives have done to the province’s healthcare system, Stiles called on Ford’s Conservatives to focus their next reversal on fixing the mess they caused.

“If the government is going to continue backing up the policy train this session, can they make reversing their privatization of health care the next signature policy reversal?”

Bonnie Crombie, Leader of the few Liberals in the Legislature: It’s only a matter of time Doug; only a matter of time.

It isn’t going to get any easier for Premier Ford going forward.  The NDP are the only people hammering the Premier and that is likely to be the case until Bonnie Crombie gets a seat in the Legislature.

The Milton seat will become available in about 45 days when the Premier has to call a by-election.  Ford does not want Bonnie Crombie buzzing about his ears – expect the by-election call to be is as far ahead is as possible.

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4 comments to Leader of the NDP Opposition tells Premier: the Bill is unconstitutional, always was unconstitutional – apologize to these workers for stealing their wages

  • Joe Gaetan

    Based on her less than stellar interview with Vassy Kapalos yesterday, Crombie either stumbled out of the gate, OR, a vote for Bonnie Crombie would be a vote for a made in Ontario Carbon tax, or whatever rebranded name she would choose to give it.

  • David

    Lexology Legal Research: “The majority of the Court of Appeal confirmed the unconstitutionality of Bill 124, but only as it applies to represented employees. Therefore, this means that Bill 124 is now still in effect for unrepresented employees. However, a few hours after the Ontario Court of Appeal decision was released, the Government of Ontario announced that it would not appeal the Court of Appeal decision to the Supreme Court of Canada and will instead take steps to repeal Bill 124 in its entirety in the coming weeks. The government has also announced that, in order to address the inequality between unrepresented and represented employees created by the Court of Appeal’s decision, regulations will urgently be introduced to exempt non-unionized workers from Bill 124 until it is repealed.’”
    https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=64cb0844-ba06-4069-87c6-6884a0af5f45
    Siskinds Law Firm: “The Ontario government has announced that it will take steps to repeal the Act to address the inequality created by the decision between unionized and non-unionized workers. In the interim, the government will introduce regulations to exempt non-unionized and non-associated workers from the Act until it is repealed.”
    https://www.siskinds.com/is-bill-124-unconstitutional/
    David: It appears that Marit only cares about government union employees, private sector (meh) not so much.

  • David

    Internet search: ‘88,000 employees in public administration who are employed directly in Ontario government ministries, plus 341,000 workers in the education sector and 221,000 workers in the hospital sector’ Are all government workers essential? or are some more so than others? and what about the estimated 100,000 nurses who were fired during COVID, who went to bat for them, and how many of these returned?

  • David

    I think I’m gonna vote for Marit at least the end will be quick unlike Bonnie’s death by a thousand cuts.