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Premier McDoggy-Doo

Posted by Joanne on 6 September 2010, 9:05 am

I’m not sure if Jim Coyle was trying curry favour for Dalton McGuinty in today’s column, McGuinty is still The Unknown Premier, but this anecdote does nothing to improve my opinion of the Liberal leader:

Once, a few years ago, there was a mix-up in the McGuinty household timetable. No one got home to free the family dog from his sleeping crate. An unholy mess was made.

Rather than summoning the help, as many in his station might have, the premier cleaned it up himself.

This could well be a metaphor for Premier McPoo’s strange priorities over the last few years, as he has had to scurry around tidying up after various ‘accidents’ in his administration (think ehealth, lottogate, ecotax, sex-ed, Supercorp, *solar-price waffling,  LHIN mismanagement, and so many others.)

Perhaps it’s time for Ontario to elect a Premier who has the foresight to prevent those missteps, rather than having to constantly apologize and admit that he and buddies messed up.

[*must-read link]

Filed under Big Bureaucracy, Dalton Days, Dalton McGuinty, Election fever, Energy, Incompetence, Just trust Dalton, Lemmings love taxes, Ontario election, Ontario government, Ours to Recover, Premier Hudak in 2011, Tim Hudak, Voter cynicism, Your tax-dollars, eHealth, scandals.
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The Economy Premier?

Posted by Joanne on 2 September 2010, 1:25 pm

Not content to merely be known as the ‘Education Premier’, Dalton McGuinty has now taken to giving advice to the Bank of Canada – Ontario premier urges Bank of Canada not to hike interest rate.

He actually has the gall to talk about the need for ‘prudence’(!):

“It points to the need for continuing prudence,” he said.

“Try as we might, we cannot completely uncouple ourselves from the American economy. They’re our single largest trading partner and consumer confidence — American consumer confidence — is a powerful factor in determining the health and vitality of our own economy here.”

McGuinty made the remarks from a Toronto elementary school where he was promoting a new expense for Ontario: full-day kindergarten for four- and five-year-olds.

The self-described education premier announced plans last fall to forge ahead with the costly project despite the economic downturn and warnings of a record-setting deficit.

The program, which is expected to cost $1.5 billion a year once fully implemented, is being slowly phased in over five years, starting with 600 schools this fall.

Ontario is also seeing higher inflation than other provinces, largely due to the July 1 implementation of the new harmonized sales tax.

Consumer prices in Ontario rose 2.9 per cent in July — the largest year-over-year hike among the provinces — with the HST accounting for about 1.3 per cent of that increase. Canada’s annual inflation rate rose by eight-tenths of a point to 1.8 per cent, according to Statistics Canada…

Is it possible that Dalton McGuinty is finally beginning to wake up to the possible nightmarish consequences of his many disastrous policies?

Nah, he’s just hoping he can get away with it.

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Friday Update

Does Dalton have a backbone?: Sun Editorial

Filed under Arrogance, Big Green, Culture of Conceit, Dalton Days, Dalton McGuinty, Flicking politicians, Follow the money, HST, Hypocrisy, Incompetence, Just trust Dalton, Lemmings love Fiberals, Lemmings love taxes, Liberal arrogance, Ontario economy, Premier Hudak in 2011, Socialism, Unions, Your tax-dollars, eHealth, economy, education, scandals.
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ABP gaining traction?

Posted by Joanne on 29 August 2010, 8:58 am

Is the ‘Anyone But’ Party going to be the big winner at the Ontario municipal and provincial level?  And if so, how would that impact the next Federal election?

While driving home yesterday afternoon we happened to tune into AM 640 and Arlene Bynon’s program was centering on these questions – especially the first.

Lorrie Goldstein was interviewed on the subject and has a column in this morning’s Sun outlining the effect of the arrogant lefties’ assaults on Rob Ford – it is causing support to increase for Ford’s more fiscally conservative stance.  The tax and spend mentality of the NDPers in Toronto may have finally hit the wall of voters’ tolerance, especially in the outlying ‘burbs.

Christina Blizzard picks up this theme and extrapolates it to the Ontario Liberal government which is now the status quo and becoming increasingly arrogant and out-of-touch with the taxpayer.  The 2011 election may see a backlash there.  In fact it has already started:

…For the first time since he was re-elected in 2007, Dalton McGuinty is trailing the PC leader in the polls.

Ipsos figures show the PCs at 36%, have a narrow lead over the Liberals, at 35%.

The NDP is at 18% and Greens are at 11%.

Sure, a slim 1% margin hardly makes Tory Tim Hudak a shoo-in for the premier, but it gives the Tories a needed boost.

That figure isn’t the most important one. On every question, the Tories were ahead. A whopping 64% of those polled want a change in government.

What’s most surprising about the figures is that Hudak is largely unknown. It’s not so much Hudak they’re voting for as it is McGuinty they’re voting against.

They want anyone but him…

So if voter intention is moving against the status quo in Toronto and Ontario, what about the federal scene? Are the incumbent Tories in trouble?

My guess is not, because of the minority situation where the Government’s hands are bound by the 3 opposition parties and the constant threat of an election. So federally the fact is that the status quo is still the tax & spend mentality because a more fiscally-responsible position would be trashed by the left.

Therefore I think that if the Harper Conservatives could put forth a vision of Canada that would safeguard our economy, our communities and our borders, and restore respect to the taxpayer, then a majority is a realistic possibility – especially if it builds on the anyone-but-lefties momentum.

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Related

Iggy to Harper: “We make the rules!” – David Akin (Great truth-ad fodder for the next election!)

And how about this from the same source?

The Conservatives, for the last three years, have raised twice as much money from twice as many people as all the other parties, including the Liberals, combined.

“Politics is not a spectator sport,” Ignatieff told the crowd here. “We need your help. We are up against the toughest political machine, the nastiest political machine in the history of Canadian politics.”

So any grass root supporters donating to the Conservative Party are enabling the nastiest political machine in the history of Canadian politics, according to Michael Ignatieff. Don’t you feel ashamed of yourselves?

I’m sure that Maria Augimeri would not be impressed with your progress on the ‘learning curve’ either.

Filed under Arrogance, CPC majority solution, Coalition of the swilling, Culture of Conceit, Dalton McGuinty, David Miller, Entitlement, Flicking politicians, Goldstein, Harper best PM ever, Lemmings love taxes, Liberal Party of Toronto, Liberal arrogance, Liberal entitlement, Michael Ignatieff, Only one tax-payer, Ontario Politics, Ontario government, Ours to Recover, Premier Hudak in 2011, Tim Hudak, Too many pigs at the trough, Toronto, Truth ads, Unions, Your tax-dollars, democracy, elections, grassroots power.
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Leger so out of touch

Posted by Joanne on 28 July 2010, 4:11 pm

QMI reports Leger marketing has found “54% of people surveyed said the government should follow France’s lead and not allow women to wear burkas in public for safety and transparency reasons.”

We could debate that one but I thought the most interesting aspect was Leger’s vice-president Dave Scholz being quoted as saying, “This is Canada — we don’t ban anything”.

Well the first thought that came into my head was let me introduce you to Dalton McGuinty and the Nanny State.

But Blazing Cat Fur one-upped me here.

Well done, my friend.

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Tangentially related

Monument to jihad – Ezra Levant

May: Here’s what’s wrong with a mosque at Ground Zero – Scrippsnews

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: the fatwa victim who refuses to keep quiet – Telegraph:

“Look, even if they did get to me, even if the bad guys – the jihadis – got what they wanted and they kill me, I win the argument anyway. They can’t kill my books.

Ban the Burka? – Prairie Tory

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Thursday Update

Great letter in the Post re: Dalton and the Nanny State.

Filed under Dalton McGuinty, Ezra Levant, Free vs hate speech, Freedom of Speech, Green bulbs get red hot, HRC must approve comments, Human 'Rights' Commissions, Immigration, Multiculturalism, Nanny State, Political correctness, pesticides.
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Being McGuinty means always having to say you’re sorry

Posted by Joanne on 28 July 2010, 8:04 am

I hope the Ontario PC party‘s war room is busy collecting clips of Dalton’s many apologies.  They will make great ‘truth ad’ fodder for the next election. Just edit them all onto one video.   Run it day and night.    “I’m sorry.  I goofed.  We messed up.  We dropped the ball…”

I’m sure that his strategists are relying on the widely-acknowledged principle that any emerging screw-ups should be nipped in the bud before they take on a life of their own, but lately Premier Pinocchio has had to spew an awful lot of mea culpas – the latest being for eco-fee mismanagement.  Christina Blizzard documents more of the recent ones including G20 communication problems and OPP raids, and then of course there was eHealth, OLG, and the list goes on.

And the man just exudes sincerity and compassion, no?

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Saturday Update

Eco fee group strikes secret deal – Canoe

Filed under Dalton McGuinty, Flicking politicians, Follow the money, Lemmings love Fiberals, Lemmings love taxes, Liberal arrogance, OPP, Ontario Politics, Ontario government, Ours to Recover, Premier Hudak in 2011, Propaganda, Protests, Too many pigs at the trough, Truth ads, Your tax-dollars, eHealth, grassroots power, scandals.
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Welcome to Ontario – where ‘Stupid’ rules

Posted by Joanne on 21 July 2010, 10:36 am

Lorrie Goldstein has some good advice for the ROC – When it comes to environmental policy,  do the opposite of Dalton McGuinty:

Indeed, a good rule of (green) thumb for Canadians is if Ontario is doing something to “help the environment,” you should run screaming from the idea as if Frankenstein had suddenly been unleashed on your community.

Should you one day catch any of your politicians starting to babble like our premier does about all things green, the appropriate response would be to hunt them down with pitch forks and burning torches, before they do something really stupid.

In Ontario, alas, it’s too late. Stupid already rules.

Yes but maybe not so much stupid as cunning.

Dalton knows how to fleece us and still stay popular.

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Update

Stupid also seems to rule south of the border – Kerry Lynch: Green dream – meet reality - Orange County Register (via The Record)

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Walkom: The painful stupidity of Dalton McGuinty’s eco fees – Yikes! He said it too!! And from the Star!!!

Eco tax likely to be back in some form – Walter Robinson, Sun

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Thursday Update

Green energy problems continue to plague Ontario’s Liberal government – Keith Leslie (Record)

MUST READ:

Those solar-power pay scales never did make much sense - Peter Shawn Taylor (Record):

...Selling to the government at 80.2¢ or 58.8¢ what the government then turns around and sells to the public for 6.5¢ is clearly too good to be true. This huge gap must ultimately be borne by consumers and taxpayers. And it is clearly unsustainable over the long run.

No solar investor can therefore defend this business model on its own merits. Rather, it’s about taking advantage of temporary government stupidity. The new rates simply limit this stupidity somewhat.

There was also plenty of international evidence that the rich tariffs couldn’t last, if anyone had bothered to look. Spain, in many ways the inspiration for Ontario’s solar regime, cut its feed-in tariffs sharply in 2008 because they were too rich, and is now discussing a 30 per cent retroactive reduction in contracts already signed. Germany and Italy are also cutting their rates. In the interests of sanity, Ontario should cut its solar rates even further…

Temporary government stupidity? That’s being generous.

Filed under Big Environment, Big Green, Culture of Conceit, Dalton McGuinty, Flicking politicians, Follow the money, Global Warming, Goldstein, Lemmings love Fiberals, Lemmings love taxes, Let's ban CFLs, Shifty Green, Voter cynicism, Wind farms, Your tax-dollars, environment, environmentalists, scandals.
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Dalton McGuinty to replace Ignatieff?

Posted by Joanne on 20 July 2010, 8:19 am

Not the first time we’ve heard this rumour.

Of course Dalton has always poo-pooed these suggestions, but considering his record on credibility and promise-keeping I’d say all options are on the table.

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Wednesday Update

McGuinty retains support despite turning tail – John Ivison:

Mr. McGuinty’s time in office since 2003 has been characterized by conflict avoidance — a strategy helped by the billions of dollars thrown at the education and health systems, not to mention generous pay deals with doctors, teachers and public-sector unions.

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Voters in Ontario will go to the polls in 14 months and the main planks of the Liberals’ campaign will be their record on the environment and education. The Premier has taken pre-emptive action by pulling two policies — eco fees and sex education — that could have defined those two issues. “They both had barbecue season potential — you don’t want people talking about the new tax on their propane tank, just as they turn it on,” said one senior Liberal.

The Ontario Liberals learned from the eHealth spending scandal last year that forced Health Minister David Caplan to resign. “We should have lanced that boil much earlier — fired everyone and started over,” said the Liberal. “We paid the price for not acting quickly enough.”

(H/T ‘Terence‘ The Chameleon )

Filed under Dalton McGuinty, Election fever, Iggyssiah, Just trust Dalton, Lemmings love Fiberals, Liberal Party of Donolo, Liberal Party of Toronto, Liberal arrogance, Liberal entitlement, Liberal machine, Michael Ignatieff, Ontario government, The LPC is dysfunctional.
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