Ford government of Ontario appears to have almost completely stopped enforcing its ESA1 and transferred billions of dollars out of WSIB to businesses.2
Tom Parkin, “Ontario Workers Pay for Ford PCs with 90% Drop in Employment Standards Law Charges,” Substack newsletter, Data Shows, October 8, 2025, https://tparkin.substack.com/p/ontario-workers-pay-for-ford-pcs.
Chris Grawey and Bonnie Heath, The WSIB “Surplus”: a Political Slush Fund (Rank and File, 2025), https://www.rankandfile.ca/wsib-special-report/.