COVID-19 and the Canadian healthcare system

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Looks like there are three sets of rules in Ontario: One for the common folk, one for the politicians in power, and one for the politicians in power after they get caught following the second set of rules instead of the first set.

The Finance Minister set up his social media feeds to look like he was at home while he went off to the Caribbean. He got caught.

He came back early - today, in fact. He made a speech apologizing for making a non-essential trip.

Then the third set of rules kicked in. A couple of hours later, the Premier accepted the resignation that the now-ex-Finance Minister refused to offer in his speech.

So, he's going into 14-day isolation right after losing his Cabinet position.

Meanwhile, Steven Del Duca, leader of the Ontario Liberal Party, said Phillips has rightly resigned "for deceiving Ontarians for weeks while he was secretly vacationing in St. Barts."

But he said Ford admittedly knew about Phillips's vacation and did nothing to stop it.

"The premier of Ontario is expected to lead by example, but Doug Ford has consistently bent the rules for himself and his MPPs. In Doug Ford's Ontario, it's do as I say, not as I do," Del Duca said.

On Wednesday, Phillips's office also told CBC News that the minister had taken a trip to Switzerland in August.

Del Duca said Ford needs to come clean about why he thought the mid-pandemic vacation and deceitful staged videos were acceptable, and why Phillips faced no consequences for his August vacation.