“I can’t call them and say get your asses in there and kicking ass. It’s up to the OPP,” Doug Ford is noted as saying. He later promised to be up police’s “ass with a wire brush.” The same Doug Ford refusing to testify at the Public Order Emergency Commission.
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/windsor-border-blockade-priority-over-ottawa
"Oxaro had received $50.6 million in taxpayer money; $33.7 million has been spent on administrative costs, while injured Canadians received $16.9 million. Updated Health Canada figures released last week show the company has now received $54.1 million and spent $36.3 million on administration costs, with just $18.1 million paid to injured Canadians"
https://globalnews.ca/news/11407587/visp-program-phac-government/