Marit Stiles

Marit Stiles opposes Doug Ford’s push to expand Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport by taking on the waterfront dispute with Toronto. She says Ford is picking an unnecessary fight with the city and should instead focus on improving health care and creating more jobs.

Marit Stiles opposes Ford’s push on Toronto waterfront and airport-related land use, saying the government is picking an unnecessary fight with Toronto over waterfront plans instead of focusing on priorities like health care and job creation. Her comment indicates skepticism toward the province’s approach to the supply chain-linked airport expansion effort.

Stiles says the provincial government is failing northwestern Ontario and must deliver more investment and support for municipalities; communities are overburdened and should not have to hire lobbyists to get the government to prioritize their needs.

Marit Stiles says the Ford government's changes to freedom-of-information laws will conceal who advocated for spending decisions, such as the nearly 30‑million‑dollar private jet, undermining public and journalistic scrutiny and opposing reduced transparency on spending priorities.

Marit Stiles is urging the provincial government to intervene to end the Titan Tool and Die lockout and is calling for legislation to stop employers from hiring replacement workers during strikes, defending union negotiating power and workers' rights.

Marit Stiles says government spending prioritizes growing executive ranks and pay at Metrolinx—pointing to 124 vice-presidents and raises for leaders—while ordinary Ontarians face rising unaffordability, implying funds are misallocated toward top officials instead of citizens’ needs.

Marit Stiles demands that college CEOs’ and presidents’ salaries be reined in, arguing executive pay must be reduced while 10,000 college jobs are being cut; spending should prioritize frontline and student services rather than high executive compensation.

Marit Stiles says the government is prioritizing wasteful, high-profile projects — a luxury spa, a fantasy 401 tunnel and an island convention centre — over student assistance, calling their 'sustainability' argument 'rich' and criticizing those spending priorities.

Marit Stiles says Niagara’s spending priorities should focus on health care—ending 'hallway health care' and keeping urgent care centres open—rather than pursuing municipal amalgamation, because residents care more about health services than governance changes.

Marit Stiles says the premier is misusing taxpayer dollars to avoid accountability, demanding the government disclose how much was spent fighting release of his phone records and criticizing spending public money to dodge transparency.

Marit Stiles says northern two-lane highways are dangerously unsafe and constitute a critical barrier to economic development — especially for the Ring of Fire mining projects. She’s leading a nine-day northern tour to press the government to fix road safety.

Marit Stiles says she will pressure the Ford government to keep the workers' action centre open, urging immediate government action to guarantee laid-off auto workers the comfort of knowing the action centre will be there to support them.

Marit Stiles rejects the government's explanation for abruptly closing the Ontario Science Centre, saying the building remains usable, that the province could have kept parts open, and accusing the government of hiding other motives—criticizing its spending/relocation priorities.

Marit Stiles says EQAO testing has value and believes "there's a real place for the kind of research" it produces, indicating she supports retaining some resources for standardized testing research rather than abolishing it entirely.

Marit Stiles opposes the minister's moves to centralize control over school boards, calling the approach impulsive and criticizing the removal of locally accountable trustees without replacement, which she says undermines local democracy and leaves communities unhappy.

Marit Stiles rejects the proposed Highway 401 tunnel as an unrealistic and ill-advised spending priority, expressing disbelief that government pursues it and implying taxpayers’ money should not be devoted to a project 'very few people really believe' is real.

Marit Stiles criticizes the Premier's anti-tariff ad campaign as neglecting stranded workers' needs; she argues Ford should focus on protecting and keeping jobs in Ontario now rather than running U.S.-targeted ads to attract Trump's attention.

Marit Stiles opposes privileging a few large 'moon shot' projects by gutting rules or creating special exemptions; she favors fixing red tape broadly, retaining legal guardrails, and warns against bending rules to push through projects like the proposed 401 tunnel.

Marit Stiles says Ontario needs jobs and a concrete plan to protect them; she rejects political stunts and prioritizes practical solutions to economic insecurity, pledging the NDP will focus on jobs alongside cost-of-living, health care and education priorities.