Ontario Provincial Committee – Political Report

The Political Situation: The Ford government’s corporate offensive The re-election of Doug Ford’s Conservative government in February 2025 represents a dangerous acceleration of corporate power over Ontario’s working class, Indigenous nations, public services, and democratic institutions. Ford’s victory was engineered through a campaign that cynically exploited fears of U.S. tariff aggression. Positioning himself as a defender of Ontario jobs, he obscured his government’s record of corruption, privatization, and anti-worker legislation. The opposition parties’ failure to Read more…

Democracy dismissed: Ford’s school board takeover is an attack on public education

The Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) condemns the Ford Conservative government’s politically motivated seizure of four democratically elected school boards: the Toronto District School Board, Toronto Catholic District School Board, Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, and Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board. Minister Paul Calandra’s claim that this is an act of fiscal responsibility is a cynical smokescreen. In reality, this is a brazen attack on local democracy and on public education itself. It represents a significant Read more…

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Scrap Bill 6! Stop Ford’s attack on victims of the housing crisis

The Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) strongly condemns the passing of the Ford government’s Bill 6, The Safer Municipalities Act. This legislation gives municipalities and police sweeping new authority to issue trespass notices and forcibly remove unhoused individuals from public spaces, targeting those who have already been abandoned by the system. This makes it a direct attack on people experiencing homelessness and a dangerous expansion of the state’s power to criminalize poverty. This legislation does Read more…

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Save jobs and communities: now is the time to bring Auto under public ownership

The Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) stands in full solidarity with autoworkers, Unifor Local 222, Local 88, and all workers and communities devastated by the latest wave of layoffs at General Motors’ Oshawa and Ingersoll plants. The elimination of 700 jobs in Oshawa and 500 in Ingersoll—which follow temporary layoffs of 3,000 workers at Stellantis in Windsor last month and combine with 1,500 additional layoffs in the supply chain—exposes the unchecked power of the auto Read more…

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Defend democratic rights: Stop the bubble-zone by-law

The Toronto Committee of the Communist Party of Canada reaffirms its condemnation of restrictive, anti-worker, and anti-democratic legislation being considered by Toronto City Council. To protect the gains won by labour and progressive movements, we call on Council to reject any measures which seek to restrict the democratic rights of the working class, and we urge all in the labour and people’s movements to fight and reject any restrictions.

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