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RSS FeedsFord furious that anti-carbon-tax stickers don´t stick
(The Star Food)

 
 

18 september 2019 17:51:39

 
Ford furious that anti-carbon-tax stickers don´t stick
(The Star Food)
 


VERNER, ONT.—After running a label company for years, Premier Doug Ford says his staff had to “pull me off the ceiling” when he heard his government’s controversial gas pump stickers were peeling off.“Could you believe that? It’s like the shoemaker’s daughter not getting shoes,” Ford said Tuesday at the International Plowing Match and Rural Expo near this largely francophone hamlet an hour’s drive west of North Bay.The premier pledged a new batch of stickers attacking the federal government’s carbon pricing will be ordered from a different company — and joked the result would have been different if the Ford family firm in Etobicoke had done the job in the first place.“They didn’t use Deco Labels, that’s why,” said Ford, whose Progressive Conservative government has been mocked for the snafu first reported by the Star.“If I was allowed to donate them, I would, believe me. But I’m not allowed to.”The irony of the “stickergate” fiasco, as Green Leader Mike Schreiner called it, has not been lost on Ford’s political rivals.“I think somebody’s sending him a message. Maybe it’s from above,” interim Liberal leader John Fraser quipped before party bosses tried their hand at plowing furrows under bright blue skies in the warm later summer sunshine.Ford’s government passed a law earlier this year ordering gas stations to display stickers on their pumps warning motorists “the federal carbon tax will cost you.”But they have been easily vandalized and peeled off. The Ontario Chamber of Commerce has criticized the stickers as a burden on businesses and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association has launched a court challenge of the constitutionality of requiring businesses to post a political message.Opposition leaders at the 102nd annual rural fair said the adhesive problem is a sign Ford should drop the sticker ...


 
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