The Ontario Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Canada condemns in the strongest terms the Ford government’s Bill 60, the so-called “Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act.” This omnibus legislation is a full-scale assault on tenants, democratic planning, and local democracy, designed to inflame the province’s devastating housing crisis and serve corporate interests.
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The Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) extends its full and active solidarity with 10,000 support staff, members of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), who are on strike at public colleges across Ontario. The CPC (Ontario) recognizes that years of government underfunding, compounded by the Ford Conservatives’ deliberate diversion of funding from public system to private institutions, have brought the college system in Ontario to the brink of collapse. Since 2013-14 provincial funding for Read more…
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…
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…
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…
