{"id":23607,"date":"2019-04-18T12:59:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T16:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=23607"},"modified":"2019-04-18T12:59:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T16:59:14","slug":"premier-taking-province-down-dangerous-path-says-university-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/premier-taking-province-down-dangerous-path-says-university-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier \u201ctaking Province down dangerous path,\u201d says university student"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last week, we saw young people from our\ngreat province walk out of class to protest the conservative government. They\nmust continue to fight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Ford and his government are dragging\nOntario backwards not forwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is clear that young people will pay the\nprice for this government\u2019s mistaken and misguided beliefs, fear and hatred\ntoward groups of Ontarians. We, as young people, cannot stand for this \u2013 this\nis our future and it is jeopardy more now than it ever has been in past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not about a disagreement in\nideology or policy, this is not about a Premier that is running his government\nlike a dictatorship because he believes he is the king of Ontario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We need to stand and fight. We have seen\nconservative MPPs not fight for their constituents or what is right; we are\nseeing damage to a beautiful province that will take years to reverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ontarians have anxieties about issues\nfacing them every day this Premier does not understand that because he has a\nsilver spoon in his mouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students education is vital. The cuts that\nthis Premier has made to the Ontario student assistance program classroom sizes\nand autism funding must be stopped. This Premier is taking Ontario down a\ndangerous path with his reckless policies that are hurting Ontarians in every\nwalks of life. It will be young people that will pay the price for this in the\nend and we must use every tool available to us to stop this government in their\ntracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will be able to vote out this\ngovernment in four years as young people and that is exactly what we will do.\nThese cuts to programs we all rely on show us how heartless this government and\nthis Premier really are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Ford, you talk a good game but your\nactions speak louder than your words in the last few months you have done more\ndamage to Ontario then any other government in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It breaks my heart to see where our\nprovince is headed. This is not the Ontario I want to live in. We need to\nrespect the equality and freedom of every Canadian and this government is not\ndoing that we must stop them before it gets worse. We must protect them from\nthemselves because they can\u2019t see the error in their ways. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benjamin Williamson<\/strong>
Aurora<\/strong>
(Student, Carleton University)<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, we saw young people from our great province walk out of class to protest the conservative government. They must continue to fight. Mr. Ford and his government are dragging Ontario backwards not forwards. It is clear that young people will pay the price for this government\u2019s mistaken and misguided beliefs, fear and hatred […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-68L","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 05:06:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}