Opinion Martin Regg Cohn: Doug Ford should demand Caroline Mulroney’s resignation
With all the talk of scandal by the mayor and the premier, turns out they’re not alone in corrupting the political process.
Someone in Mulroney’s political office ordered public servants at the Metrolinx transit agency to exclude opposition MPPs from alerts that trees were to be cut in their ridings, according to aTempting as it is to laugh this off as amateurish meddling and manipulation by the Mulroney brain trust, it is not so easily shrugged off. Trees are a big deal in this town, as every politicians knows well.
We don’t know, because Mulroney’s office — the same office that subverts tree disclosure — won’t disclose how high up this goes. But the email trail tells a revealing story of a ministry that is blighted root and branch.notify New Democrat MPP Kristyn Wong-Tam and then-opposition leader Peter Tabuns In other words, politicians from other levels of government could and should be alerted. But the two NDP politicians who might dare to challenge Mulroney in the legislature were to be deliberately left in the dark.
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