Doug Ford tells young job seekers “try inheriting your daddy’s sticker factory” - The Beaverton
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Doug Ford tells young job seekers “try inheriting your daddy’s sticker factory”

QUEEN’S PARK – Ontario Premier 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 political connections.

Less than a week after Stats 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 ’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 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 .

“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 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.