Last week, Ontario Premier Doug Ford dropped a bombshell: the Ontario Government would start issuing its own work permits for asylum seekers in the province.
The blowback – especially from conservatives – was swift, with many asking whether Ford’s move wouldn’t just encourage more asylum seekers of questionable legitimacy to flock to Ontario to get jobs.
Is this what Canada’s largest province, with growing unemployment and already overstretched social services, really needed? Who exactly was demanding this policy change from Ford?
Just days later, Ford reversed himself, as is so often prone to do. But why does this supposed ‘conservative’ premier keep pushing some very un-conservative policies?
In the first episode of ‘Not “Sorry”’ host Alexander Brown takes us through Doug Ford’s latest ‘bright’ idea on immigration, and his subsequent reversal.
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