In Doug Ford's 2018 mandate letters, obtained exclusively by Global News, the premier laid out his high expectations for incoming cabinet ministers and plan to ensure integrity.
After Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives were swept into office in June 2018, ending 15 years of Liberal rule, newly minted Premierprovided his cabinet ministers a new north star. He would run a government defined by ethics, accountability and a province that was strictly “for the people.”
For the first time since Premier Doug Ford’s election in 2018, his secretive letters to cabinet ministers can be made public in full.Shortly after being sworn into their new roles, in 2018, Doug Ford’s cabinet ministers would have recieved a letter that contained both ideological and practical instructions to be carried out during the government’s first term.
The auditor general later told the Globe and Mail the government had given voters the perception that “back door” access is the “way you get things done in Ontario.”“Before you take any action, be sure to ask yourself a simple question, ‘Is this good for the people?’” the letter asks. “Only pursue courses of action that, directly or indirectly, will make a positive difference for the kind of people who cannot afford expensive lobbyists.
The first-term mandate letter stands in sharp contrast to the second-term Greenbelt scandal in which former-Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Steve Clark was found to have violated the Members’ Integrity Act for failing to properly oversee his staff proper during the land selection process. Both Ford and Clark declared the “buck stops with me” as they defended their role in the land swap ordeal, with the premier repeatedly rebuffing calls to fire the housing minister.
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