Category: Canadian politics

Weeds Growing Around McGuinty Legacy

The Ontario liberals legacy will be one of, over regulation and over taxation. However with this said the liberals still have the advantages of having their hands on the levers of power. Simply put, today weeds tomorrow the world. The liberals seem to want to save Ontarians  from themselves. Conservatives want to let government get out of the way of the individuals and ambition that will make this a better province. Tim Hudak has the message and motivation that might appeal to middle-class Ontarians. The Progressive Conservative party is creating a home for people who might be fed up with the protectionist’s at Queens Park.

“While we are focused on creating jobs and defending the family budget, the nanny premier is worried about saving you from the menace of the plastic bag and protecting dandelions on your front lawn,’


This would be an appropriate time, however, for the Liberals to take stock of the legacy left by their seven-year ban-wagon. They could do more to stop smoking if, rather than obsessing on how convenience stores display tobacco, they did something to stop the sale of cheap, untaxed, contraband cigarettes to schoolchildren. Moreover, the Liberals ought to consider the accumulative effect of all their bans.

Stony Creek Dairy An Economic Casualty in McGuinty’s Ontario

I was saddened to find out that after 80 years of operation Stoney Creek dairy is shutting its doors. It was a great small business that put ingenuity back into ice cream. It is disappointing to see the assault on small business because of over regulation and the new realities of energy costs in Ontario. How many MORE casualties will there be in an Ontario where the government is willing to open their wallets but not our doors to small business?

“I was sad to read that after more than 80 years, Stoney Dairy is shutting its doors over skyrocketing energy costs,” the Niagara West-Glanbrook MPP said in an address outlining his party’s ‘10 for 2010’ plan to jumpstart the Ontario economy.

A Political Axiom to Live By

 

 The Thick of It is an award-winning British political satire about the ins and outs of working in a modern 21st Century government. Liberals love this TV show because it hates Conservatives in reality it is just a live action political cartoon. The only negative thing I can say about this show is that it butchers the English language by putting it through the proverbial meat grinder. Characters  spit out profanity left right and center and any time in between. Real political satire is one part entertainment and one part genius. In Canada satire seems somewhat lost on us in a land of human rights tribunals and political correctness.
 
“Life is just a succession of five minuteses.” – Malcolm Tucker

 

CBCs Heather Mallick On The Warpath

 

Once in a blue moon Heather Mallick   draws the ire of some Blogging Tories. Mallick is a left-wing columnist who is most famous for her work with the CBC. She loves to pontificate how the world is and how she would like it to be. An Interesting insight into Ms. Mallick is on her bio page where it states that she has an upcoming work of personal essays being published. “Cake or Death, is a collection of essays about surviving the Bush years”.

A  few questions have to be asked;  why is Mallick who is a Canadian journalist and who writes for an English paper, is writing a memoir about an American president and did she live in the United States?

Also surviving is an interesting word because it usually conjures up images of struggle and being deprived of the basic necessities of life. I wonder where all the books about the  Clinton Chronicles written by right-wingers are ? The Short answer is there isn’t any. Instead we get books about the vast media conspiracy against Bill Clinton.  Mallick’s work is a symptom of the left- wings need to have victims and heroes to suit their media narratives. As well, this is an example of how much of an echo chamber Canadian journalism has now become.