OTTAWA — Ontario Premier Doug Ford sidestepped a question about his government’s decision to cancel a basic income pilot project by accusing an NDP MPP of making a threat to hurl an explosive in Queen’s Park on Thursday.

NDP MPP Judith Monteith-Farrell had asked the premier in question period when participants of the now-cancelled project were informed of the project’s end and if they were told when the last income supplement cheques would be issued.

But the premier did not directly answer Monteith-Farrell’s question, opting to take aim at NDP MPP Taras Natyshak by raising a “serious issue.”“We have one of […]

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks in the legislative chamber in Toronto on Aug. 9, 2018. OTTAWA — Ontario Premier Doug Ford sidestepped a question about his government’s decision to cancel a basic income pilot project by accusing an NDP MPP of making a threat to hurl an explosive in Queen’s Park on Thursday.

NDP MPP Judith Monteith-Farrell had asked the premier in question period when participants of the now-cancelled project were informed of the project’s end and if they were told when the last income supplement cheques would be issued.

But the premier did not directly answer Monteith-Farrell’s question, opting to […]

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