Stand Up for Our City

The Ford Government has announced plans to cut public health, education, child care and transit, reducing access to services and making life less affordable in our city.

Polls show the Province’s cuts to public services are unpopular, and Doug Ford’s support is falling as a result [1]. People want a premier who invests in our city, not one who makes deep cuts to services we rely on.

Tell Doug Ford and your MPP it’s time to stop the cuts and invest in our city.

What Doug Ford’s cuts could mean for our city:

Public Health:

  • $14 million/year in cuts to Public Health starting in 2021 [2]

  • Student breakfast & lunch programs at risk

  • Dental clinics at risk

  • Restaurant inspections at risk

Education:

  • Increasing class sizes for grades 4-12 [3]

  • Removing 3,475 teachers from Ontario classrooms [4]

  • Replacing in-class learning with mandatory online courses for high school students [3]

  • Cuts to arts, music, library services, and guidance [5]

Child Care:

  • $15 million/year in cuts to child care starting in 2021 [6]

  • Hundreds of affordable child care spaces at risk in 2020

  • Rising costs for all parents

  • Longer waits for affordable child care spaces

Public Transit:

  • Cutting $1 billion for day-to-day operations over 10 years [7]

  • Higher transit fares

  • Less reliable service

Use our tool to tell your MPP and Premier Ford to stop the planned and future cuts to public health, education, child care, and transit, and instead invest in strengthening these services and a city that works for everyone.

Want to chip in to help us cover the costs of this campaign? We’re knocking on doors and talking to people across Toronto to put pressure on Ford. Chip in $5 today to the Stop Ford Fund to help us cover basic costs: https://www.progresstoronto.ca/stop-ford-fund.

Notes:
[1] https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2019/05/21/three-quarters-of-ontarians-think-doug-ford-on-wrong-track-poll-suggests.html
[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/extremely-concerned-protesters-decry-ontario-health-care-cuts-changes-1.5354513
[3] https://www.chatelaine.com/news/doug-ford-education-changes-ontario-cuts/
[4] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/provincial-memo-teacher-cuts-1.5085851
[5] https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/06/19/toronto-school-board-budget-finds-678-million-in-savings.html
[6] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/child-care-cuts-1.5336919
[7] https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2019/04/11/provincial-budget-cuts-11-billion-in-funding-to-toronto-transit.html