Tory Redux

Category: Canadian politics

  • Ontario’s Unaffordable Energy

    From Toronto Star

    Since becoming leader of the Ontario PC Party, I have travelled all over this great province talking to families, seniors and business owners about their rising hydro bills.
    Whether I’m in Toronto, Timiskaming or home in Niagara, I am hearing similar stories everywhere I go. When the electricity bill arrives at people’s homes, it sits unopened for days because they know the bill only goes one way, and that’s up.
    From smart meters, to the Green Energy Act, to the Samsung subsidy, electricity bills are skyrocketing. When you add in the impact of the HST and other rate increases, the annual cost of electricity bills for Ontario families is set to increase by another $732 per year by 2015, according to the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters.
    Premier McGuinty is running Ontario’s hydro system in a way that is unsustainable. He’s handing out massive subsidies to preferential energy developers that are well above the market price for power. In the end, it’s you who pays the price on your hydro bills.
    What do you think of Tim Hudak’s energy policy so far.?

     

  • Have A Holly, Jolly , Rigid Christmas

  • It Started With Meech Lake

    Former Liberal insider starts the blame Brian Mulroney campaign.


    From Vancouver Sun
    According to Jeffrey, it was Mulroney’s attempts to bring Quebec into the constitutional fold and the Meech Lake accord that really did the Liberals in, created a “perfect storm” and instigated caucus division — not based on personalities, but rather on the principles of federalism.


    “That pretty much ripped the party asunder,” Jeffrey said, referring to the Meech Lake accord. The academic and former Liberal insider writes that the ordeal is blamed by some for the collapse of the Progressive Conservative Party, but few recognize the impact it had on what was once called Canada’s “natural governing party.”


    “Nobody really understands how badly it affected the Liberal party,” she said in an interview. Jeffrey, who worked on Parliament Hill during John Turner’s term as leader of the Liberals, said disagreement over Meech Lake exposed a new cleavage that cut across the traditional divide between business and social Liberals.