DOUG FORD'S ONTARIO
WHAT'S BEING SOLD OFF?
Ontario is shifting public money, land, water, and environmental protections toward private profit — while accountability is weakened. That includes rolling back freedom-of-information access and overriding evidence-based street safety policy. This flyer summarizes the pattern documented in public accounts, legislation, and independent reporting. Share it. Print it. Talk about it with neighbours.
Healthcare
Hospitals are stretched while for-profit operators and staffing agencies capture more of the budget.
- Ontario has spent billions on private staffing agencies while public hospitals report deficits and staffing gaps.
- For-profit clinics have been paid more per procedure than public hospitals for the same surgeries (documented in CBC and Public Accounts reporting).
- Bill 124 capped wages for many public healthcare workers while agency rates climbed.
- Emergency departments and hallway medicine remain widespread as capacity shifts out of public hands.
- Long-term care bed allocations have favoured for-profit operators in multiple rounds of licensing.
Water & wastewater
Bill 60 changes who controls the systems communities depend on every day.
- Legislation opens pathways for corporate involvement in water and wastewater services.
- Municipal utilities face pressure to partner with or sell assets to private operators.
- Ratepayers risk losing transparency when decisions move behind corporate walls.
- Environmental enforcement and local accountability become harder when ownership changes.
Public land
Protected land and public waterfront are treated as development opportunity — not a public trust.
- Greenbelt land swaps removed protections while benefiting selected landowners and developers.
- Ontario Place privatization hands a major public waterfront to a private spa resort project.
- Farmland, watershed, and urban green space face ongoing pressure from sprawl and infrastructure.
- Communities often learn about deals after key decisions are already made.
Environment & Indigenous rights
Species protection, public participation, and treaty obligations are being sidelined for faster development.
- Bill 5 weakens species-at-risk rules and Indigenous participation in environmental decisions.
- Special economic zones can bypass normal environmental review.
- Ring of Fire and northern development proceed without adequate free, prior, and informed consent.
- Biodiversity loss and treaty violations carry long-term costs communities will bear.