St. Catharines Standard – November 10, 2010
McGuinty’s election train off the tracks
By Christina Blizzard
Politics is an extreme blood sport. When things are good, they’re great. Politicians walk on air. They exude that golden glow of success. They can do no wrong. When things are bad, it seems nothing can pull them out of the slump. And right now, things are going very badly for Premier Dalton McGuinty.
First, there was the scholarship story from Hong Kong. The government will spend $30 million – $20 million from taxpayers and $10 million from universities – to give full $40,000-a-year scholarships to 75 foreign doctoral students. To add insult to injury, Training, Colleges and Universities Minister John Milloy defended the scholarships by saying the government wants to “strengthen that system by attracting the best and the brightest.” Well, hello. Don’t we have the best and brightest homegrown talent here in Ontario? Tell parents struggling to pay tuition bills they now have to pay for the “best and brightest” to come in from overseas and show us how its done, and you’ll get outrage.
McGuinty also got the bad news that the government’s pay freeze has hit a roadblock. An independent arbitrator has awarded 2% a year pay raises for the next two years to nurses and other unionized hospital workers. McGuinty balked at telling reporters he’d bring in a law mandating a wage freeze. He said his government wouldn’t give money to the hospitals to pay the bill. “Our interest is to ensure the taxpayers aren’t paying any more – and they won’t,” he said. The government won’t give the hospitals more money to deal with the pay hike. So how are supposed to hold the line? Close beds? Shut operating rooms? Lay off nurses?
McGuinty’s been in power seven years and never seen a public-sector union he wouldn’t cave in to. He stands up timidly in his budget and freezes all the non-union government salaries. But when the going gets tough with the unions, he’s a pushover. It’s not his problem. Let the hospitals do the dirty work.
Meanwhile, Tory Leader Tim Hudak revealed an embarrassing document put together by Sussex Strategy group – a lobbying company – advising clients that renewable energy is anticipated “to be a wedge issue in the election.”
McGuinty’s obsession with Al Gore’s fake global warming scheme is leaving Canadians out in the cold. Billions spent on useless wind turbines, while destroying the middle class.
We have to demand an early election and vote for Tim Hudak to stop this insanity once and for all. Even our Prime Minister does not believe in this bogus tripe.
McGuinty needs to put to pasture along with his cronies.
The earth is cooling and has been all these years, but the truth was being hidden, until a hacker exposed this Al Gore lie, just recently.
McGuinty must go!
Don’t expect anything different from Hudak. If elected he will continue the job of implementing Agenda 21 in order. You can’t get elected in this country unless you are a UN minion. Besides Hudak endorsed John Torry who, if elected promised to put more wind turbines in Ontario than McGuinty.
Why would the editor quote anything from a corporate paper?
Missy is correct in that McGuinty must go, although there is more than just Tim Hudak to consider voting for and I don’t mean anyone in the NDP.
The Premier’s “gravy train” has turned into a gravy train wreck. One thing will prove tougher than getting an early election, and that is, getting someone to admit they voted for McGuinty and will do so again.
@Ian Tuck,
To quote you: “although there is more than just Tim Hudak to consider voting for and I don’t mean anyone in the NDP.”
Who then??? Seriously who if not Hudak or the NDP’s? Liberals again? You can’t mean the Green Party…..that’s just more of the same with the green energy bull.
Everyone I talk to just shakes their head (sideways)
with such sadness in their eyes as they say “I don’t know who to vote for, they’re all just a bunch of crooks.” I press them for an answer and they just don’t know who to vote for, seriously.
Everyone is so fed up with McGuinty’s obsession with the fake Global Warming. But who can we vote for that will put an end to the windmills once and for all?
If you know something we don’t please share.
Canadians need a strong leader that is not motivated by greed or influenced by consultants or pandering to special interest groups for votes, etc.
Who is going to clean up this mess and restore & create an environment for a strong Private Sector to grow so that jobs are created, where the taxpayers are NOT subsidizing this growth?
Seriously, who?
Missy,
You are so correct regarding the scams being forced upon us by government and special interest groups. No, I was not referring to the Liberals (just the thought makes me feel dirty,) nor was I referring to the Greens, who should have called themselves NDP Lite. All three of those are about furthering the erosion of property and personal rights, large nanny statehood and the environmentalist religion which kills babies and saves trees. None of which makes any sense to any Canadian with moral convictions and even a little bit of political awareness.
So who was I referring to? In my area there is a very knowledgeable and capable fellow named Dave Joslin who, in provincial elections, runs for the Family Coalition Party. He is extremely well versed on political matters and has very good views on every matter I’ve had the opportunity to question him on, like unemployment insurance, health care, property rights and personals rights, free speech and of course, the green scam being foisted upon us with wind mills and such and other things I hadn’t even considered.
I think many Christians do error in supporting the Conservatives, thinking the Conservatives have a shadow of Christianity and therefore are ten thousand times better than the NDP, the Liberals or the Green party, (well, actually they are correct in thinking that they are ten thousand times better.) There are some within the party who are good people, so I don’t mean to paint them all with the same brush, but, what do they do to support freedom of speech, smaller government, property or personal rights and so on? If Christians wish to support a Christian candidate and party which supports freedom and other values this country was built upon, then I was just suggesting they do some research and not just vote for the lesser of the evils, like most of us have been doing.
If Canadians really wish to return to the things which made this such a great, freedom loving country, then we have to return to what made this country what it is, and that is the Christian world view and the freedoms which come with it. Dave Joslin is a great person in my opinion, one who believes and lives what he believes. I am not accusing him of being perfect, just that there is plenty of evidence he is Christian and his political views, if implemented, would be good for all persons in this country, and my vote is not wasted in supporting him.
Even persons who do not wish to be Christian would be in support of the vast majority of policies of those with a Christian world view if they could only get over their prejudice and stop believing the lying left. Christianity is never about foisting our religious believes upon others; politically, it is about freedom and respect of others.