The RCMP has launched an investigation into a number of full-page advertisements in 2020, under the name Vaughan Working Families, Ontario's New Democratic Party says. In the ads, which appeared in three national newspapers early last year during a tense round of contract talks with provincial teachers' unions, Vaughan Working Families took aim at teachers unions and expressed support for the Ford government. "Teachers were under attack from the Ford government, and they got some help in that attack from Vaughan Working Families in the form of an advertising blitz," NDP MPP Peter Tabuns said in the news release. Following the publication of the ads, the Ontario NDP had called for an investigation, while the government denied any involvement. NDP ethics critic Taras Natyshak said at that time that the full-page advertisements violated the province's election spending rules.

Source: CBC News May 04, 2021 18:22 UTC