QUEEN’S PARK – Ontario Premier Doug Ford is telling unemployed young job seekers to “Look harder” for label manufacturing companies that they can inherit, or failing that, a lifetime’s worth of backroom conservative political connections.
Less than a week after Stats Canada reported Ontario shed 26,000 jobs in August — the most of any province – Ford is baffled as to why more young people are “too lazy” to take advantage of their family’s multi-million dollar packaging concerns which they can inherit to immediately become titans of industry.
“It drives me nuts when I see young, healthy people and they’ll call me saying, ‘I don’t have an already-successful family business to effortlessly inherit,'” Ford said during a breakfast speech to the Toronto Region Board of Trade.
“It’s like these young layabouts never dropped out of college after two months and then walked straight into a 6-figure job at their daddy’s sticker factory,” Ford explained to the Board of Trade members.
The premier then suggested that, if a lucrative co-ownership position at a thriving family business is somehow not available, that unemployed young Ontarians should settle for the fallback position of leveraging their father’s political connections from his time as a Harris government backbench MPP, or the political capital earned from their dead brother’s scandal-plagued single term as Toronto mayor.
“How hard can it possibly be to get elected leader of an Ontario political party?” Ford asked, “I barely even had to try, and here I am.”
Asked whether young Ontarians could possibly find work outside the Wealthy Failson sector, Ford was measured. “I mean, I guess, if you look hard enough, maybe in fast food or something else, but you’ll find a job,” the premier remarked, before assuring the Board of Trade that he would continue pushing for them to be able to hire Temporary Foreign Workers to fill all available fast food positions for sub-living wage rates.
Ford then finished by urging job seekers to “stop being so lazy and look harder”, before announcing his next multi-week vacation to go snowmobiling at his family’s cottage.
