The provincial Liberals say the gravy train continues to roll under Doug Ford.
They say 40 per cent of PC candidates who did not win in the 2018 election were given patronage appointments.
Derek Parks, who ran in Thunder Bay-Superior North and Clifford Bull, the candidate from Kiiwetinoong, are among those who received appointments after failing to win a seat in 2018.
Parks was appointed a member of the Committee on the Status of Species at Risk in Ontario in January 2020.
Bull was named a Special Advisor on Indigenous Affairs in December 2018.
Liberal candidate Mitzie Hunter says the appointments aren’t about having the best people selected for the job.
“It’s Doug Ford taking care of his friends and allowing this gravy chain to just continue. And you know it is costing hundreds of thousands of dollars,” says Hunter.
Hunter notes appointments by the past Liberal government were of elected officials of all stripes.
Most notable was Christine Elliott, who was named Ontario’s first patient ombudsman by then-Premier Kathleen Wynne.
Elliott later resigned from the position to seek election in 2018.
