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Decide for yourself.

Compare the text of Dalton McGuinty’s Sept. 1 letter in the National Post (Dalton responds), to the text of one of the ads from the Working Families Coalition, which aired today on CTV’s Question Period.

Here is the text in question from the letter:

…The Conservative approach to government was to sow strife and opposition. That divisive approach to leadership turned our classrooms into battlegrounds and cost our kids 26 million school days lost to strikes and unrest — and caused private school enrolment to skyrocket.

Now, the Conservatives are at it again. Just as our public schools are getting back on their feet, they want to take half a billion dollars out of public education…

And here at Workingfamilies.ca they very kindly provide not only the video, but also the text:

Ad Script

Do you Remember?

When the conservative party tried to divert our tax dollars for private schools.

They also caused strikes and created a crisis in education.

Remember when they cancelled after-school programs and slashed special ed budgets.

No we’ve had four years of peace and stability in our classrooms.

But the conservatives are again proposing to redirect our tax dollars to private religious schools putting public education at risk – and that’s what is at stake in this election.

Coincidence?

Steve Janke, among others has been asking how close the ties are between Working Families and Dalton McGuinty’s re-election campaign. The Star link on Steve’s blog explains the significance of this issue:

The Conservatives want Elections Ontario to rule that Working Families is not a “third party” under provincial law and therefore its millions of dollars in campaign spending should count against the Liberals’ expense limits.

The irony of the ads of course is that John Tory is so far left of Mike Harris, most true Conservatives feel they are currently without a party that truly reflects their values.

But what do you think? Is McGuinty’s letter close enough to the ad to be somewhat suspicious?

Or am I paranoid?

Good grief! I may have to find another religion - BBC.

And speaking of planting trees, it’s now starting to make some kind of sense why Dalton is so intent on continuing to fund Catholic-only education.

And they wonder why PMSH snubs them (Star - Politicians now at their wit’s end).

H/T National Newswatch.

Related: Calgary Sun - Go for the Loon.

One day Iggy will learn that Harper had it right all along. Throw the Press a crumb and they’ll poop all over you. Maybe the mascot for the Press should be the pesky seagull.