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Archive for September 30th, 2007

Premier Flip-Flop does it again

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Not that the Ontario Lemmings will notice or care, but the Star(!) caught McGuinty flip-flopping again - McGuinty flip-flops on senior rebates.

I guess when a Conservative does it, it’s a gimmick.

When McGuinty does it, it’s a ’shared responsibility’.

Eat it up, Ontario!

I’m going back to my reading.

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I give up - Bumped again with not-so-anomalous update

Sunday, September 30th, 2007


If the Liberal-Lovin’ Lemmings of Ontario want four more years of lies, obfuscation, ‘health’ taxes, hidden taxes, half-truths, cover-ups, crime and lawlessness, union-pandering, discriminatory education funding with questionable results, banning everything under the sun, long waits for medical attention, back-door funding, never-ending native stand-offs and broken promises - then go for it.

Just don’t complain. Not one of you.

You don’t have the right.

Not for the next four years.

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Photo explanation here. But the ones not paying attention should have been lemmings; not swans.

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Update: As Sandy says here, Ontario is already funding a faith-based school and no, I’m not referring to the Catholic system.

The National Post has an article today called “Mennonite school used against Liberals“. But Education Minister Kathleen Wynne sees Eden High as an “anomaly”:

Kathleen Wynne, the Liberal Education Minister, yesterday described Eden High as “an anomaly” and said its existence does not justify the fundamental changes that Mr. Tory is proposing.

“There is a difference between a single school that is in the system and making a systemic change across the province that would introduce a very different way of educating kids,” she said, adding, “I don’t see it as a contradiction.”

So, any other exceptions to the unbending rule, Ms. Wynne?

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Sunday not-so-anomalous update:

Apparently, yes. There are more exceptions. True Blue Ontario notes them here. (We talking Eden, The Protestant Separate School Board of Penetanguishene and F.W. Begely in Windsor now). Any other anomalies, Minister Wynne?

True Blue (great name there) rightly asks:


The question remains, why do some get choice, while others do not? There needs to be an open and honest discussion and debate on alternative or faith based funding in the Province of Ontario.

(TBO has posted a new link to this Windsor Star article.)

Lorrie Goldstein’s column this morning - Heading for a Hangover - addresses the irony and bigotry of the Liberal position:

…On the other side, the Liberals — the self-described party of tolerance — have used this issue to pander to Islamophobia and other forms of bigotry in an attempt to scare enough people into voting Liberal to secure a majority government.

According to them, the fact five other provinces fund multi-faith schools in some way is not possible in Ontario. Here, they argue, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and Sikh schools will get public funding and the next thing you know, it’ll be religious cults worshipping the Great Hairy Muffin.

And always, just below the visible surface of the Liberals’ position, there’s the coded appeal to bigotry in the post 9/11 era — that it’s those Muslim schools that really need to be watched…

Why can’t Ontario voters see what’s going on here?

Angelo Persichilli makes a good point here:


Tory has the wrong position if he wants to become premier, but his integrity and leadership have to be appreciated. He could keep defending his position but, being an important decision for MPPs too, he might allow his members to vote according to their conscience. That wouldn’t be a compromise but a fair way to address an issue that involves the conscience of all the people involved.

I’ve been saying that for weeks now. Are you listening, John Tory?

Oh-oh! Another anomoly!!! - Rockway Mennonite Collegiate. (H/T to ‘Anonymous’ in comments.)

Good article here by John Vanasselt, who is director of communications for the Ontario Alliance of Christian Schools.

Or how about this one from NOW, May 2001 where McGuinty and company flip-flop all over funding for religious schools?

Right in Niagara - Liberal Greg Sorbara has amnesia about Eden High School.

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