Tory Redux

Category: Canadian politics

  • Taxpayers Still On the Hook for Eco-fees

    From CTV

    Ontario taxpayers are on the hook for millions of dollars for shutting down the eco fee program introduced last July and then quickly cancelled, Environment Minister John Wilkinson confirmed Monday.

    The province expected it would cost $8 million a year to keep six key items targeted by the eco fees — fire extinguishers, syringes, medications, rechargeable batteries, products with mercury and compact fluorescent light bulbs — out of landfills.

    However, Stewardship Ontario, the agency that runs the blue box program and was responsible for the eco fees, is also looking to recover stranded costs from eco fees that it estimates at $10 million.

    This is just another bad liberal tax that has become a poisoned chalice for the government.

  • Family Tax Cut



    Prime Minister Harper announced as his first official campaign pledge a tax cut for families that further reduces the burden on Canadians However  this tax cut won’t come in to effect  until the Tories balance the books. Again the prime minister is showing that he is the prudent and responsible choice that we can trust.


    Here’s an article on how all the parties are trying to appeal to families in this election

  • $6 billion for what ?

    middling results and slow progress for students in Ontario during the era of the Education Premier.


    Following the defeat of the Bob Rae government, Conservative premier Mike Harris introduced standardized testing and from 1995 to 1999, results showed significant testing improvement.


    However, following the defeat of the Conservatives under Ernie Eves, test scores have remained relatively stagnant — despite complaints that the tests themselves have been watered down.


    “They came up with, I think, a pretty good curriculum, especially in math,” Doretta Wilson, with the Society for Quality Education, said of the Harris Tories.


    “Over time, that curriculum has been revised and I think diluted a little bit.”


    In some respects the late 90s don’t seem so bad right now.