Doug Ford's lack of early engagement in Freedom Convoy protests 'troubling,' report finds

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A lack of engagement by Ontario Premier Doug Ford led to Ottawa feeling abandoned by their provincial government during the “Freedom Convoy” protests, a federal report recently found.

The report, which was published by the Public Order Emergency Commission on Friday, also found a lack of collaboration by the Ontario government impacted jurisdictional and resourcing issues in the early days of the occupation.

The report concluded the Ford government only increased their engagement more than a week later, when protesters started blocking the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, resulting in potential financial and trade repercussions. The convoy stayed in the area for more than three weeks, forcing businesses to close, and causing headaches for nearby residents who were exposed to loud noises and, in some cases, unsafe environments.

However, when protesters started impeding traffic on the Ambassador Bridge, described as Canada’s busiest commercial link to the United States, Ford took action.

 

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first bill 124 then this

Trudeau with the blame game again Also Lucki resigns and yet another woman takes the heat for Trudeau... All there need led was dialogue at the very start between government and its people

Rock on Doug !!

Very troubling...did he support occupation?

Election coming up....didn't want to alienate his base...hid his head in the sand and let other people pick up the mess.

...one of them...

Should have engaged in support of the protest. S***** off the pm and the guy threw him under the bus.

He didn’t realize that Ottawa was in Ontario….

Someone has to be Trudeau's scapegoat. I guess Ford is ok with that.

Ford should be banned from politics. He failed with the health care system Education etc. That Jones who is so arrogant has to be fired from her position. She doesn't know her job . Ford when will you look after seniors and low income people. FREEZE THE RENT let see if you care ?

We find JustinTrudeau Guilty and what a disgrace this inquiry was Paul blames our police WHAT!!!!!!!!!! the only person I blame is JT and so does many other world leaders blame him

Nothing new here to see.

How about Trudeau hiding in the basement?

Liberal Media Alert!! Here we go again boys and girls. Bias Liberal Media blaming Ford for Trudeau's mess, again.

He supports it, plain and simple

Liberal blames conservative, classic.

Are we surprised?

Could it be because the convoy was made up entirely of his supporters

He needs to resign or fired

And his early intervention would be seen as heavy handed…so…

Doug Ford should resign. He abandoned his role. Ghosting Ottawa in their hour of need made him negligent not invisible. We know he went snowmobiling instead.

clottawa

Anyone surprised? Many donors and businesses who donate to the PCs had 18 wheelers at the protests. Doug only became interested when other donors in Windsor had businesses impacted by auto parts held up at Ambassador Bridge.

This was entirely jr's problem from the beginning. The convoy was asking to talk to jr and resolve the issue of Canada wide mandates. Grow up, woke liberal MSM. Don't forget the Ottawa Police and mayor screwed up.

They voted for him

Who cares... Move on.

Oh, bullshit. Any excuse to blame a conservative for Trudeau's incompetence. Pathetic. Ottawa police chief peed his pants and Trudeau hid behind fake case of covid. This isn't on Ford.

And he refused to testify showing he does not care for Ontarians. Sad that so many who suffered voted for this man. He has the health care system in a mess as he refuses to pay nurses so all Ontarians suffering from a bad health care system. FireFord

Dougy tried to play big card against Fed by doing nothing as a provincial authority/ we will pay the price for his incompetence

More than troubling . Down right criminal

It took an inquiry to come up with that. We all knew the first week. All us ‘lefty’s anyway.

Time for Doug and his buddies too go.

fordnation Ford needs to resign. He is too corrupt to have his seat.

lol no bias in this at all. Federal liberal gov't = no wrongdoing but conservative provincial gov't ='troubling.' This country is broken

Report can say what it wants. Why should he get blamed for the mess Trudeau created.

Doug Ford did nothing, because his antivax daughter told him not to.

Justin literally threw a tantrum in the House, stormed out, and the went I to hiding.

He was scared!...of the protesters,,,of the press,,of making the wrong call,,or the right one, too late!--Scared!

'I do not come to this conclusion easily, as I do not consider the factual basis for it to be overwhelming'

Anything Ford and his cronies comes out of their mouth could have been said during the hearing, but of course we know how weak Ford is when answering to surprise questions. Remember when he delegated questions about his choice to Deputy Premier as if she was his mommy

Segregation is okay though. Hitler was right, I guess. Heil Canada!

Whatever story you are trying to build... no one is buying it.

'Doug Ford's lack of early engagement in Freedom Convoy protests 'troubling,' report finds' fordnation Doug Ford as premier is troubling and a liability for Ontario! .

Paul Rouleau: In 1983, he was part of John Turner’s campaign for leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada after Pierre Trudeau announced retirement. Rouleau then helped pick Turner’s cabinet once he won leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada.

No one is surprised by his actions DougFordCorruption

Ford didn't object to the convoy that's why

He was paid off to look the other way. Hence why he went snowmobiling

He’s a massive failure at every turn

Glad to see CP24 reported on this.

Commissioner Paul Rouleau. A liberal who probably took it in the ass from Justin Trudeau

Ottawa Police and mayor screwed up

Now he will go into hiding until this blows over

Because the woman he loves so much told him to shut up!!!!

hes the premier of ON and did nothing .. still got elected .. even with the low voter turn out

What say you now fordnation ?

Maybe if he had appeared as a witness before the commission he could have explained himself. But he chickened out there too. Man has no guts. Should stick to stage and doe events.

Ford didn't have time to engage the Freedom Convoy he was too engaged with the land developers and that is still his priority 1...

Doug Fords deceit, dishonesty and corruption shows he is part of the liners crimes against humanity and that he is treasonous as Trudeau and Freeland and Singh.

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He should be removed from office for dereliction of duty.

Snowmobiles don't drive themselves.

I dont think he has the authority to freeze bank accounts so.....

The ugliest mug shot most heinous people playing with fire trucks Covid family days Rob trans Canada pumping iron hydroelectric slips out of his fingers Tory’s can’t escape their destiny . Black history deficit mass murders drug trafficking OLG gaming

They won’t get back in . Swine flu ice wind flew Ontarios brews blues provincial OLG slaughter medias meatier pork chops hog town not a good time to be dough boy .

He went snowmobiling

Anybody surprised? Anybody?

No one cares about the useless judge.

He was too busy snowmobiling and not giving a 💩. Probably hanging out with developer friends or Galen Westin planning how to screw Ontarians. FORDisCORRUPT FORDmustRESIGN EmergenciesAct IStandWithTrudeau Freedumbers

Well Doug has been doing everything Trudeau & Freeland tell him to do so did Trudeau tell him to be relaxed with his response so Trudeau looks like the 'hero' he so badly wants to be?

The cheesecake doesn't just make itself.

It was a federal matter, the protest was about the red regime party not any provincial ones. You call yourselves “news” lol

fordnation engagement:

Bill Blair?Justice and we all saw your text messages is inquiries time to saying that “throw Chief Sloly under the bus”why you and your government didn’t try to help him for resources? We are not stupid and you did for chief Sloly to fail EMA! Shame on

Just like being MIA during the Indian blocking rail lines in Cornwall.

He should resign !

He made friends with Trump in his first term. Remember he went to Washington? He is the Ontario version of another lying hypocrite power money hungry fake politician. He doesn't care about people. He was always worse than Rob. Awful men!

Full-on CORRUPTION....not 'troubling'

he didnt want to piss off his daughter

Consistent track record for fordnation Consistently underperforming

Obviously, when Trudeau's hand picked friend who's married into his family writes the report lol.

MeanwhileinCana fordnation Continuing to fail Ontario. Only thing Ford is good at is grifting and misleading the people of Ontario! 🤡 FordfailedOntario NeverVoteConservative

fordnation A utter failure on all levels

Roger Stone is one of Ford’s consultants. That should be very troubling to every Canadian.

Give me a break

The government, media and judicial system are corrupt af. Welcome to Soviet Canada where they will freeze your money, take your job and dehumanize you.

Lol

That's why he was re-elected He also said the vaccines don't work. Bonus points Can't wait until the good guys are back in power at the federal level We'll see who's 'Unsafe and chaotic', when Pierre decides to use the Emergency act on those he doesn't like Trudeau dumb

OMG, what a shock. Doug Ford failed AGAIN.

Surprise CP24 runs another hit story on a conservative.

Yeah, I'm sure it was troubling to Zoolander's hand picked, liberal party shill 'lead investigator' That Dougie didn't just step right into the fire on an issue and protest that JT and his government were responsible for causing.... 🙄 What a surprise.....Moving on.....

Lack of ANY engagement!!! While he was hiding out at the cottage...

Doug Ford has his own issues for sure but it gets seriously tiresome reading and watching Trudeau get bailed out by his supporters snd his ass kissing big media companies every time an issue comes up. Prime minister for almost a decade and everything gets deflected from him.

The Trudo way is to stomp out people seeking freedom as soon as it crosses their mind

Everyone could clearly see Ford and the PC strategy: Make this Trudeau’s problem. A total dereliction of leadership from the premier. This was happening in his backyard.

Actually businesses were shut down by government. The convoy folks actually went in and spent their hard earned money and helped businesses there

Cabinet had bigger fish to fry than just 2 city blocks. A short list: ALL of Ottawa ALL borders-clear & keep clear plots to murder police copycats agents provocateurs sympathizers in police & army ranks inaction of mayor & premier CPC connivance CSIS advice etc.

Businesses were not forced to close in Ottawa, only from the government. We were in Ottawa during that time and the businesses thanked us for coming and supporting them! The protestors supported them, they were happy to be making money again! All the lies over this is disgusting!

Media hacks. The issue is federal, but let's focus on the PC provincial government.

'Mass civil disruption to save ourselves is all we have left.' Chris Hedges

report the real f*cking story you cowards

A better, more accurate headline:

He’s useless

He was preoccupied snowmobiling at his Muskoka cottage .

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