From: brewnoser2@gmail.com   
      
   Doug Ford - April 2018:   
      
   “We need to be investing in the front lines,” he said. “We don’t need   
   more layers and layers of bureaucracy.”   
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   'Well, maybe I'll just add this little layer to that pile - after all, he   
   looked after Rob really well and he has a nice way with the media . . . .'   
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   Ford rewards key Tory adviser with $348K patronage job to curb hospital   
   overcrowding   
      
   Premier Doug Ford has quietly appointed a key Progressive Conservative ally to   
   a $348,000-a-year patronage job overseeing a new panel tackling hospital   
   overcrowding.   
      
   Hours after been sworn in June 29, Ford convened his first cabinet meeting   
   where one of 37 orders of business was naming Dr. Rueben Devlin to lead the   
   new “premier’s council on improving health care and ending hallway   
   medicine.”   
      
   “The chair shall be paid the sum of $348,000 per annum. The chair shall be   
   eligible for reimbursement of expenses incurred in their work on the   
   council,” said a cabinet order-in-council of the three-year post made public   
   on Friday, one week after it    
   was made.   
      
   Devlin’s appointment was confirmed at the same meeting where Ford parted   
   ways with former TD Bank chair Ed Clark, who earned $1-a-year to be former   
   Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne’s business adviser and privatization czar.   
      
   Devlin will be paid more than Ford, who makes $208,974 as premier, and Health   
   Minister Christine Elliott, who earns $165,851.   
      
   Indeed, Ford promised in the campaign that he would cut health-care wait times   
   and end the practice of “hallway medicine” where patients are left in   
   corridors because of staffing shortages.   
      
   He also repeatedly said that the widely respected Devlin would be his main   
   adviser on addressing the problem.   
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   https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2018/07/06/ford-rewards-   
   ey-tory-adviser-with-348k-patronage-job-to-curb-hospital-overcrowding.html   
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   I guess he just forgot to mention how much taxpayer dollars he planned to pay   
   his family's friendly doctor.     
      
   Are we just starting to find out what Ontarians are in for?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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