Author: Jon Siemko

  • New Ontario PC Radio Ads

     

    Today, the Ontario PC party launched a series of radio ads reminding Ontarians of the economic record of the liberals while, premier designate Kathleen Wynne  was at the cabinet table with Dalton McGuinty.

    Here is one of the ads

  • Tim Hudak’s Open letter to Premier Dalton McGuinty

    Tim Hudak

    Earlier this week Tim Hudak leader of the Ontario PC party penned an open letter to outgoing Premier Dalton McGuinty . He detailed many of his grievances against the prorogation and urges McGuinty to recall the legislature.

    Some of the letter is below

    The consequence of your decision to prorogue means that we are unable to take the meaningful action required to rein in government spending and enact policies to kick-start private sector job creation. Before you prorogued, the Ontario PC Caucus had put forward a number of bold ideas designed to undo many of the harmful decisions your government has made to restrain economic growth. Our proposals to rebuild Ontario’s economy included legislation to help small business owners cut through red tape, strengthen transparency in government, and reform the broken arbitration system – with our Ability to Pay Act. In effect, proroguing means you have put the government on autopilot, leaving your reckless spending to continue, unchecked, and the debt to…

    ….Failure to order the Legislature back now means you are making the job we will need to do when it returns even more difficult and perhaps insurmountable. Your plan to wait until the weekend of January 25-27 of next year for a new Liberal leader to hand off these important decisions to means any practical action will be delayed until at least well into 2013.

    Premier, when we are confronted with tough times, leaders are required to rise to the challenge, not turn out the lights and go home.

    I stand ready to do my part. Ontarians are counting on you to do yours.

    Yours truly,

    Tim Hudak, MPP
    Leader of the Official Opposition and of the
    Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

     

  • Sir Isaac Brock

     by Sean_Marshall
     Today marks the bicentennial of the Battle of Queenston Heights and the death of Sir Isaac Brock. I still remember the day trips with my family to the Niagara region when I was a young impressionable boy .   We did a complete circuit of Fort George and Fort Niagara of course ending off at Brock’s monument and learning about the battle at Queenston Heights. These trips were an important part of sparking a lifelong love of history in me that continues to this day.
    An excellent Bicentennial blog 1812 now has an in-depth post on the battle of Queenston Heights using primary sources; which gives you the sense of what it felt like to be there.
    Putting aside the solemn remembrance of heroes who have long passed away this is for me at least one of the reasons Canadian history has a personal connection!