Tory Redux

Category: Conservative 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.

  • Ignatieff on the wrong side of history

    politicians can be often procedurally right but always will lose the political tug-of-war over public opinion. Perception is reality in politics and it is more important in politics than in any other arena in life.

    Sorry, Iggy. You’re not PM material
    By , QMI AGENCY




    he problem for Michael Ignatieff is that if he triggers an election, he runs the risk that the election might not be about any of those things. Elections seldom end up being about the issues that brought them about in the first place. The election may well end up being about whether Iggy has the royal jelly to be the prime minister or if he is just toast with no jam.


    n that case, de Montfort made the same mistake that Iggy might yet make. De Montfort thought it was enough to be on the right side of a particular issue. It turns out that what mattered just as much is who is the most capable general in the great struggle for power.