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Episode 19: Final Cost to Taxpayers? $2.2 million

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We have tracked Peterborough MP Michelle Ferreri's spending and salary costs since her election in 2021. This will be our final update before the election on April 28.   As you look at the numbers below, you can find detailed documenting of her 2021-2024 salary and expenses claims here  in a post from mid-December. You can source the original data via the House of Commons Proactive Disclosure website. You can search by Member and Quarter, as well as look at details regarding each expense Michelle submitted, listed in Travel, Hospitality and Contracts. The House of Commons recently released the last Quarter of expense claims, ending December 30, 2024. I don't expect another update prior to the election, so I have estimated January 2025-April 28, 2025 based on her Quarterly averages. Its astonishing really, watching her spending grow and grow and grow over the last 4 years. Of particular note is the first and last bars in this graph. They cover the same number of months, y...

Episode 18: Votes No To Bills That Can Make A Difference. I'm Speaking Up.

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Guest article written and researched by Peterborough Constituent Jessica C: This post took this Constituent hours and hours and hours of research and documentation. At the end of this post, you will find sample screenshots validating these votes and statements by Peterborough MP Michelle Ferreri, as found in the official Parliamentary record, Hansard. Losing Respect for Someone Is a Fickle Thing I used to respect Michelle Ferreri. In fact, I even looked up to her.  I remember seeing her for the very first time at an event in Peterborough years ago where she was the keynote. "She's been a woman in the media industry for over a decade",  I remember thinking.  "Wow. That’s impressive." She was one of the people who inspired me to be myself - and to speak up for things I care about. But my respect for her? I've lost it over time.  I want to be clear: this isn’t an episode of  Mean Girls . And I’m definitely no Lindsay Lohan. But Here's Why Speaking Up Is Imp...

Episode 17: Using Ptbo's Sexual Assault Center for Political Gain

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Guest article written by Peterborough Constituent Jenny, as posted on the "No More MP Ferreri' Facebook group page: Day (and reason) #1 I won't be voting for Michelle Ferreri. On August 14, 2024, MP Michelle Ferreri posted on her X account that she met with [our Riding's] Kawartha Sexual Assault Centre and stated that "the cost of living crisis has driven parents to traffick their own children." Michelle Ferreri's statement was harmful on 3 different levels. 1. Her statement minimized the trauma that victims and survivors of trafficking experience/experienced. Her statement essentially gave them the message that if they had money, this never would have happened to them. 2. Her statement gave the message that ANY family in the community experiencing poverty are at risk of trafficking their children. This is simply untrue and puts a label on families that could create further marginalization. 3. The Kawartha Sexual Assault Centre was put in the middle and...

Episode 16: Does MP Michelle Ferreri Appear to Have Ties to Foreign Interference?

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  Guest article written by Peterborough Constituent Mary R., as posted on Facebook: On February 25, 2025, MP Charlie Angus shut down a Maple Maga (as they like to refer to themselves) after he tried to harass peaceful Ukrainian protestors outside of the Russian Embassy in Ottawa.  The guy Charlie is cursing at is Chris Dacey of Dacey Media. Dacey, along with a few others, have been harassing Prime Minister Trudeau and all MPs full-time, daily, since the Convoy (except Conservative MPs who high-five "these clowns" on their way into Parliament, paraphrasing a Charlie Angus comment). Our MP Michelle Ferreri brought a couple of them, including Melissa Outwater, as her guests inside to Parliament. In Canada, you don't benefit monetarily from social media engagement like you can in the US.  So who is paying Dacey?  Here is Peterborough Constituent Melissa Outwater in a Dacey Media video. She talks about just getting off a live stream with MP Michelle Ferreri, who was askin...

Episode 15: Ferreri Fails to Meet the Moment

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Its been a doozy 2 weeks for Canada, a  time for Canadian leaders to step up and meet the moment. We are amidst a resurgence of Canadian pride and identity with some shining examples of leaders rising to the challenge of defending our sovereignty, respecting Trade Agreements.  Of note are BC Premier Eby, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Manitoba's Wab Kinew to name a few. Behind the scenes here and in Washington, hundreds of staffers, Ministers, MPs and industry leaders have been working to change the outcome. Trudeau et al have been effectively defiant and clear: the psychodrama and illegal tariffs cannot stand. Its working. It has been ridiculous to watch the Conservatives remain tone deaf to this challenge and enough words have been written on their shriveling inability to pivot their hateful messages to Canadians. Locally, our MP Michelle Ferreri has made a revealing choice as to her political character. It was more important to her on the day that tariffs became active, and in ...

Episode 14: Our MP's Derangement + Bots Is Not Peterborough, or Canada

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This will be a short column because really, what more is there to say about Peterborough MP Michelle Ferreri, beyond her hatred of all things Liberal, woke, Trudeau, Carney? We just have to live through her increasingly desperate attempts at keeping attention on herself and the Conservative Party amidst Poilievre's spectacular fall in the polls, a 30 point lead gone in just a month.   EKOS Research has another set of polling numbers being made public in a few hours, the gist of which he hinted at last night: Well, Michelle is not having it and launched into a 6 minute car rant video a few days ago, which starts off like this: Struggling for relevance in a Party swamped by sinking numbers, screeching messaging that's no longer resonating with the public, she's been given no discernable role at this period in time. Struggling for attention from her leadership cabal, both front and backroom, where behind closed doors, they're trying to pivot their messaging and the public ...

Episode 13: Has She Hit Rock Bottom Yet?

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Except they stayed (put on hold) the drug charges, as pointed out by many others, and are pursuing a murder charge instead of the drug charges, the former more likely to be successful. "Homeless people are criminals"!  "No one will tell me what to do with my uterus!", then votes No on budget items and Status of Women Committee report recommendations that shows us she's just fine with telling everyone else what to do with their uterus. "I'm a mother to 6 children" "I attended Trent University on a full scholarship" "I was an archaeologist in Belize" "I'm vaccinated" "I am your voice in Ottawa, not Ottawa's voice in Peterborough" "Parents are trafficking their kids for food!" Truth-twisting on the daily, cherry picking headlines and statistics to suit the Conservative's latest narrative. And on and on, and on, and on. Has Michelle Ferreri always been such a liar? Childhood? As a teenager? ...