Rod Phillips RESIGNS! Ford appoints new finance minister to replace disgraced beachgoer

Rebel News ^ | December 31, 2020 | Staff

[CheshireTheCat]

Ontario premier Doug Ford has accepted the resignation of his (former) finance minister Rodney Phillips, after the MPP was caught in a Christmas trip to the beautiful Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy.

Minister Rod Phillips was part of the Progressive Conservative provincial government which imposed a brutal lockdown on Ontario families and businesses.

You can learn more details on the timing of Phillips' Christmas vacation by visiting our FirePhillips.com petition page! Thank you to all who signed and helped us to force Doug Ford to take action.

According to a report on an airport arrivals press conference from the National Post, Phillips wanted to keep his job...

[CheshireTheCat]

One hypocrite politician down, thousands more to go.

[GoldenPup]

Tens of thousands !

[EvilCapitalist]

“Progressive Conservative Provincial Government” That’s a contradiction in terms.

[SkyDancer]

He was just social distancing.

[cgbg]

Corrupt and hypocritical politicians—like ants at a picnic.

2020 was their feeding frenzy.

[McGavin999]

What is a progressive conservative? Sounds confused

[lodi90]

What is a progressive conservative? Sounds confused

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Our future is what it is.

[Bookshelf]

The Progressive Conservative Party, similar to the Liberal Party, contained various shades of opinion, and its policies were generally determined by local issues and practical need rather than by ideology. In general, however, the party favored less government intervention in both the economy and social affairs. Strongly federalist, it also generally was less accommodating to Quebec separatists. IOW squishy, very squishy.

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The old Conservative Party of Canada became the "Progressive Conservative Party of Canada" in 1942.The reasoning may have been that people who went through the depression wanted something that sounded like progress. The Progressive Conservqatives collapsed in 1993 and merged with the Reform Party/Canadian Alliance in 2003 to form today's Conservative Party of Canada.

National parties and provincial parties in Canada aren't bound together. In Ontario, the provincial party still calls itself the Progressive Conservative Party. In British Columbia, the Liberal Party is actually the more conservative party (in opposition to the New Democrats on the left). It wasn't considered very strange for Jean Charest to be the leader of Quebec's Liberal Party and a supporter of the Conservative Party on the federal level.

[Grampa Dave]

Please see my tagline.

[StormEye]

"Ontario premier Doug Ford has accepted the resignation of
his (former) finance minister Rodney Phillips, after
the MPP was caught in a Christmas trip to the
beautiful Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy."

Really? So what the hell is wrong with taking
a Christmas trip to St. Barthelemy .... where ever
that is?

[lodi90]

Good info, thanks.

[sausageseller]

Nonessential travel is banned in Canada.