NDP leader Horwath's voice like 'nails on a chalkboard': Ford
Ford later apologized
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Antonella Artuso
Publishing date:
Feb 17, 2021 • 19 hours ago • 1 minute read
Ontario Premier Doug Ford tours the COVID-19 testing centre in Terminal 3 at Pearson Airport in Toronto on February 3, 2021. Photo by Frank Gunn /THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath’s voice in the legislature sounds like “nails on a chalkboard,” Premier Doug Ford says.
Ford urged the opposition leader to take a more collegial approach rather than “criticize and criticize” his government.
“It’s like listening to nails on a chalkboard, listening to you,” Ford said in the Ontario Legislature Wednesday.
The comment was immediately labelled as sexist by opposition MPPs, as women politicians are sometimes dismissed as “shrill” when they raise their voices in debate.
NDP MPP Catherine Fife tweeted, “These sexist moments in Ontario’s Legislature happen too often… and make it very difficult to recruit women into politics.”
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Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca posted, “Misogynist rhetoric like this has no place in the Ontario Legislature. For it to be hurled by a Premier is unthinkable. @fordnation should apologize immediately.”
Horwath said the people of Ontario are owed an apology for this kind of “mud slinging” by the premier.
“When the premier doesn’t like being questioned, doesn’t like being criticized, he goes to the worst possible place,” she said. “That’s just who he is.”
Horwath was pushing the Ford government on its pandemic response Wednesday, including the end of the residential eviction ban, which she said would push people on to the street.
“I would never support a government that throws people out in the cold during a worldwide pandemic,” Horwath said. “I would never do something like that because it’s the wrong thing to do.”
Speaker Ted Arnott told Ford to withdraw his comments after he accused Horwath of “hypocrisy at its best.”
The premier apologized but immediately went on to say the NDP MPPs were “talking out of both sides of their mouth.”
The Standing Orders of the Ontario Legislature do not permit MPPs to call each other liars or to imply it, a rule enforced by the Speaker.
aartuso@postmedia.com
Ford later apologized
Author of the article:
Antonella Artuso
Publishing date:
Feb 17, 2021 • 19 hours ago • 1 minute read
Ontario Premier Doug Ford tours the COVID-19 testing centre in Terminal 3 at Pearson Airport in Toronto on February 3, 2021. Photo by Frank Gunn /THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath’s voice in the legislature sounds like “nails on a chalkboard,” Premier Doug Ford says.
Ford urged the opposition leader to take a more collegial approach rather than “criticize and criticize” his government.
“It’s like listening to nails on a chalkboard, listening to you,” Ford said in the Ontario Legislature Wednesday.
The comment was immediately labelled as sexist by opposition MPPs, as women politicians are sometimes dismissed as “shrill” when they raise their voices in debate.
NDP MPP Catherine Fife tweeted, “These sexist moments in Ontario’s Legislature happen too often… and make it very difficult to recruit women into politics.”
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Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca posted, “Misogynist rhetoric like this has no place in the Ontario Legislature. For it to be hurled by a Premier is unthinkable. @fordnation should apologize immediately.”
Horwath said the people of Ontario are owed an apology for this kind of “mud slinging” by the premier.
“When the premier doesn’t like being questioned, doesn’t like being criticized, he goes to the worst possible place,” she said. “That’s just who he is.”
Horwath was pushing the Ford government on its pandemic response Wednesday, including the end of the residential eviction ban, which she said would push people on to the street.
“I would never support a government that throws people out in the cold during a worldwide pandemic,” Horwath said. “I would never do something like that because it’s the wrong thing to do.”
Speaker Ted Arnott told Ford to withdraw his comments after he accused Horwath of “hypocrisy at its best.”
The premier apologized but immediately went on to say the NDP MPPs were “talking out of both sides of their mouth.”
The Standing Orders of the Ontario Legislature do not permit MPPs to call each other liars or to imply it, a rule enforced by the Speaker.
aartuso@postmedia.com