“I didn’t approve any list, I didn’t see a list,” Ford said in response to a reporter’s question at a press conference in Winnipeg.
, and about a third of the 91 recipients overall have donated to the Progressive Conservatives.
“But to be very frank, I have so many other more important issues than putting KC behind a bunch of lawyers’ names.”Ontario stopped handing out the designations in 1985 under the then newly-elected Liberal government of David Peterson, who said the title had become “corrupted” and was widely seen as a patronage tool.
This included all the lawyers in cabinet, including Downey himself and Mulroney. The latter had served one year as Ontario’s attorney general, but had only ever held a law licence from New York until being called to the Ontario bar just days before getting her KC title.
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