Ontario NDP accuses PCs of creating ‘cash-for-access culture’ [Video]

Ontario’s Opposition leader is accusing the government of creating a “cash-for-access culture” and is asking the province’s integrity commissioner to look into an upcoming Progressive Conservative party fundraiser with the premier and transportation minister.

The fundraiser is billed as an evening with Doug Ford and Prabmeet Sarkaria, and tickets are selling for $1,000.

The Ontario Trucking Association has put out a “call to action” urging members to buy tickets to the “small, relatively exclusive” event and deliver a message to Sarkaria about cracking down on illicit operations.

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“We need to turn this event into an OTA member trucking event to deliver one clear message: ‘Our industry supports your government, and we need your government to bring order to our sector,'” chairman Mark Bylsma wrote.

“Participation should be viewed as an investment in our industry and for our own businesses…This is the only way to win this battle.”

NDP Leader Marit …