Ford More Years: What Comes Next? Post-Election Panel and Book Discussion (Fully Online)

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Panelists:

• Bryan Evans, Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University, and GLRC Faculty Associate
• Carlo Fanelli, Associate Professor in Work and Labour Studies in the Department of Social Science and Interim Director of the Global Labour Research Centre at York University
• Maria Rio, Director of Development and Communications, The Stop, Executive Director Further Together
• Tom McDowell, Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University
• Venai Raniga, CUPE National Researcher
• John Clarke, Former Ontario Coalition Against Poverty organizer and Packer Visitor in Social Justice at York University
• Katherine Nastovski, Assistant Professor in Work and Labour Studies in the Department of Social Science at York University
• William Paul, Editor of School Magazine
• Ryan Keplin, PhD in Political Science, York University
• Doug Allan, Senior Researcher with CUPE National
• Chris Chandler, Vice-President, Ontario Secondary Schools Teachers Federation

About the Book Against the People: How Ford Nation is Dismantling Ontario:

The election of the Doug Ford–led Progressive Conservatives unleashed an aggressive and undisguised market fundamentalism. Ford’s government has taken the assault against the social welfare state, labour and environmental protections to new and unprecedented heights. Maintaining a permanent era of austerity has not only steadily reduced the public sector as a proportion of the provincial economy but has also reduced the social protections available to Ontarians.

Ford’s deregulatory agenda has explicitly degraded the quality of social provisioning and eroded labour rights to the benefit of business. From undermining the fiscal capacity to fund program expenditures adequately to reducing public sector employment and service levels, Ford Nation has reordered an array of ministries and agencies to boost business and development in general and the resource-extraction and investment sectors in particular. Tens of billions have been put back into the pockets of the business community, often directly out of public coffers. Few ministries and programs have been left unscathed. Most people have not benefited.

Against the People is the first book of its kind to provide an in-depth look into the devastating policies of the Ford government across a wide range of public policy issues: from health care, municipal, education and judicial restructuring, to economics, arts, labour, environmental, housing and Indigenous lands. Written by on-the-ground experts and focused on the Progressive Conservatives since coming to power in 2018, this book showcases the politics of dismantling a province.

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