Kelly McParland | February 6, 2017 1:18 PM ET
Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne watches Liz Sandals
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When your government is engaged in a multi-billion-dollar effort to improve transit facilities as a way to get drivers off the road and into more environmentally-friendly means of travel, it’s generally not a good idea to suggest the people who make use of those facilities are a pack of dimwitted losers who lack the talent to rate a more prestigious form of transport.
This would be news to Liz Sandals, Treasury Board president in Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Ontario government, who let commuters on the province’s GO train system know just how low they rate in her estimation.
Asked how the average GO commuter might view proposals to hand generous pay hikes to executives at some of Ontario’s bigger corporations – including an extra $8 million for the already lavishly-compensated bosses at Ontario Power Generation – Sandals offered a brusque put-down.
“Most of the people sitting on the GO train probably don’t have high-level nuclear qualifications or the business qualifications to run a multi-billion-dollar corporation,” she remarked.
