Ontario Premier Doug Ford has made a lot of tough decisions during the pandemic, some of them right, some of them wrong. The next decision he has to make should be easy, if unpleasant.
Finance Minister Rod Phillips has to be fired, not just for taking a Caribbean vacation while other Ontarians are locked down, but for the social media posting designed to deceive people into thinking Phillips was still in Ontario. His “Christmas Eve” fireside message on Twitter, so full of fake empathy for all those facing a virus-curtailed Christmas, is destined for the Hypocrisy Hall of Fame
It’s too bad, because Phillips, the former chair of the board of Postmedia Network Inc., has been a strong finance minister, but he has lost the moral authority to lecture other Ontarians on the sacrifices they have to make when he is apparently not prepared to make any himself. His attempt to prevent people from knowing that he was on the beach in St. Barts suggests that Phillips knew the decision was wrong, but made it anyway.
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