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Archive for September 4th, 2007

Mark Steyn on the Sen. Larry Craig fiasco in his own inimitable style:

…“I am not gay,” says Sen. Craig over and over, as somberly and emphatically as President Nixon’s famous insistence that he was not a crook. Any day now, the senator will announce OJ-like that he’s redoubling his efforts to track down the real homosexual…

…Did you know that tapping your foot in a bathroom was a recognized indicator that a criminal act is about to occur? Don’t take your iPod in with you! Or, if you do, make sure you’re listening to the Singing Senators: Hard to tap your foot to “Sweet Adeline,” and if you do it’s unlikely to be in a manner sufficiently frenzied to attract the attention of the adjoining constables…

Steyn is the best.

The McGuinty Goverment’s latest ploy to bribe the Ontario electorate is incredibly offensive. Dalton obviously has a very low opinion of our collective intelligence and must believe that we can be easily duped:

“Ontarians work very, very hard. Ontario winters are very, very long and Ontarians deserve a statutory holiday in February,” Finance Minister and Liberal campaign chair Greg Sorbara said.

“I think this is going to be very, very welcome in Ontario. It’s something we’ve talked about for more than a decade.”

Now class, did you understand the nice man? I know that is a very, very complicated concept, but he is trying very, very hard to use language you understand.

But do you believe him and his boss?

John Tory’s reaction was certainly one of cynicism and so was that of NDP leader Howard Hampton:

Hampton said the Liberals can’t be counted on to keep their promise of a new holiday given that the government effectively killed a private member’s bill in 2003 that would have created such a holiday.

“Dalton McGuinty found the time to give himself a $40,000 raise but didn’t get around to giving working families a much-needed day off,” Hampton said in a statement.

Actually, the Post tells us that this idea has been scuttled by the Liberal majority government more than once in the past:

The Liberals are not the first to propose a Family Day for Ontario. John O’Toole, a Conservative MPP, introduced a private member’s bill earlier this year calling for the day as a way to recognize “the importance of the family as one of the great institutions of civilization.”

NDP MP Peggy Nash tabled her own bill in Ottawa last February calling for Flag Day, Feb. 15, to be made a holiday across Canada.

So why now?

Well, of course it has nothing at all to do with the upcoming election!

No indeed.

The real reason (or at least what Liberal Finance Minister and Campaign Chairman Greg Sorbara wants you to believe) is that the economy is doing so well now (all of a sudden), that we can finally afford another day off!!!

Never mind all this screaming about Ontario’s economic woes just a short while ago with all the equalization scrapping.

Never mind that the manufacturing industry is in a tailspin (oh yeah - that’s the Federal Government’s worry, right?).

And never mind that McGuinty’s record on keeping promises is anything but credible.

Well all I can say to my fellow Ontario lemmings is, if you follow McGuinty off the cliff on this one, be prepared for more disappointment.