Tory Redux

Author: Jon Siemko

  • Liberals Ignore Ontario PC Proposals

    The Ontario Liberals are doing some old-fashioned political posturing at Queen’s Park. Sunday night finance Minister Dwight Duncanreleased a statement that the Tories were going to force an election on the people of Ontario  .  In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. Finance critic for the Ontario PCs Peter Sherman released a statement laying out in detail how Premier Dalton McGuinty has ignored many of Tim Hudak’s proposals.

    A November face-to-face meeting between Tim Hudak and the Premier, laying out several Ontario PC proposals for jobs and our economy

    ·         A full week of tour and Queen’s Park activities to discuss Hudak’s plan to create 200,000 new skilled trades jobs by reforming the apprenticeship system

    ·         A week spent detailing the Ontario PC plan for a mandatory public sector wage freeze

    ·         The rollout of Hudak’s proposal to enable private sector and not-for-profit competition with public sector unions for the delivery of government services

    ·         A week of briefings on fixing Ontario’s broken public sector salary arbitration system, which awards settlements without regard to taxpayers’ or municipalities’ ability to pay

    ·         A week of speeches and media events on the need to treat energy policy as a cornerstone of economic growth

    ·         Province-wide meetings with businesspeople to make the case for lower business taxes

    ·         A series of major daily newspaper op-eds on the Ontario PC Planfor reducing the size and cost of government and growing our economy, and

    ·         A series of daily pre-budget statements by Tim Hudak and Ontario PC Caucus members on measures the budget

    Now, who is really playing politics with the public good?

  • New Type of News Aggregator

    There’s a new news aggregator on the block and it’sBlue Canada. The brainchild of Craig Smith co founder of Blogging Tories it is a refreshing  conservative alternative to other predominant aggregators in Canada. To this end, I have now placed Blue Canada  in my blogroll.

  • Good First Step Towards privatization

     OTTAWA – The Canadian Centre for Policy Studies welcomed the 10 per cent reduction in taxpayer subsidies to the CBC announced in yesterday’s federal budget.“Last October we called for the privatization of the CBC,” said David Krayden, executive director of the CCPS. “The CBC is a world class broadcaster, fully capable of competing in the private sector. The more than $1 billion in government funding the CBC receives annually is a misuse of tax dollars since virtually every service it provides can be, or is being, provided by private broadcasters in Canada. What’s more, this subsidy gives the CBC an unfair advantage over other broadcasters who must compete with it for advertising revenue.”
    “By reducing the size of the subsidy it receives every year from taxpayers, today’s announcement represents an important first step toward the CBC’s inevitable privatization.”

    Here’s my more in-depth article on CBC privatization. As well we have to encourage the conservative government in Ottawa to continue taking a tough stance on public broadcasting  and make sure that taxpayers are getting value for their money.

    H./T. Steven Taylor and Hatrocks Cave