Doug Ford quotes privatization czar, chief investment officer and chief scientist

Premier Doug Ford sacked Ontario's investment director and removed Ed Clark as the prime minister's trade advisor during a post-election purge.

According to sources, Ford's new Progressive Conservative government ended Allan O "Dette's brief tenure as the province's first director of investment in the firm Friday

O'Dette, former President and CEO of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, was appointed by former Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne in March 2017 to head the Ontario Investment Board

Chief Scientist Molly Shoichet, a prominent professor from the University of Toronto named to her last November by Wynne, also left.

"The chief scientist has been dismissed from his post. Ford spokesman Simon Jefferies said on Wednesday

that a spokesman for the renowned Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, confirmed that the last day of O & # 39; Debt was Tuesday. Clark, who was Wynne's business advisor and privatization czar since June 2015

is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of TD Bank, who has been appointed Chair of the Liquor Board from Ontario in January. Clark

was a key supporter of the sale of the province's controlling interest in its Hydro One electricity transmission business as well as the architect of the historic expansion of beer and wine sales. Ontario wine in 450 supermarkets. 19659002] He was also one of the leading promoters of Amazon 's HQ2 offer to the province and was Wynne' s advisor for preserving jobs in the US. Ontario steel industry.

During the election campaign of June 7, he promised that "not a" public job would be abolished when he took office.

"I want to badure our public sector workers, our nurses, our teachers and our doctors, one – and I repeat it – will lose his job," he badured Ontarians the day before. elections

. However, such changes are common when a new government takes office, although it is unclear who, if any,

Peter Tabuns, NDP MP (Toronto-Danforth), was particularly concerned about the signal Ford was sending by firing the chief scientist and reorganizing government services

"The revelation that Doug Ford has The Scientific Director of Ontario, after announcing last week that he will demolish the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science, wonders if Mr. Ford will lead or not a government that believes in the value of science and science. "The people of Ontario deserve to to know why this decision was made and why it was done in secret.Ontario families deserve to know what Doug Ford will do next. "

Ford will meet with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at Queen's Park on Thursday o the new prime minister is expected to discuss his decision to remove the & # 39; Ontario's cap-and & # 39; exchange alliance with Quebec and California.