Today Dr. Stewart Kennedy issued a statement on the half of the Ontario Medical Association. Commending the Ontario PCs and Tim Hudak for adopting some of the Association’s recommendations and making them a key component in the upcoming platform.
Ontario’s doctors were pleased to learn that the Ontario PC Party has included several health care policy initiatives in their election platform as recommended by the Ontario Medical Association. In January, Ontario’s doctors released, ‘Better care. Healthier patients. A stronger Ontario.’ and called for increasing long-term care capacity and investments into home support services, which were announced today by Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak as key planks of their health care platform.
Ontario’s doctors are especially pleased with the commitment to increase the number of residency positions for Ontario students who have received their medical training abroad and want to come home to practice. Ensuring every person has access to a physician has been a top priority for Ontario’s doctors and this policy initiative is another good step towards achieving that objective.
Category: Conservative politics
Ontario PCs in Majority Territory
In the afterglow of the unofficial beginning of summer the race for Queens Park is beginning to heat up. Today, Nanos released a poll showing that a majority of Ontarians would vote for the Ontario PC party if an election was held today. The Ontario PCs have the trust of over 41% with a Liberals trailing at a stagnant 34% .
The underlying story of these numbers is a notable improvement of the provincial NDP they are perhaps basking in a bit of a orange glow after Jack Layton’s big win earlier this month. Moreover pocket book issues are still front and center for most Ontarians this is all good news for the Ontario PC Party, who have their last AGM before the elections scheduled for later this week .
Furthermore, the Ontario Liberals are beginning to expose a soft underbelly of support in Toronto. On Monday the conservative incursion into Toronto was complete with a 17 vote, recount win in the traditionally red riding of Etobicoke-Centre. it seems that Toronto could be primed for the Ontario PC message this fall. In short, good news for conservatives all around, however the Liberals have a lot of catching up to do.
The Liberal’s Financial Woes
From Yahoo! News
In February, Steve Janke of the National Post, wrote an editorial warning the Liberals not to force an election because of their finances.
“Between September 12, 2008 and November 4, 2008, the Liberal party took out 34 loans from banks in Canada, for a total of $11,280,000,” he wrote.
“It is clear that loans provide the immediate cash needed by a party to run a campaign, borrowed on the promise that in the aftermath of a campaign, public subsidies and individual donations will be used to repay the loan.”
The Liberal party’s financial troubles don’t stop there. The Hill Times reports most of the 2006 Liberal leadership candidates are still in debt: Gerard Kennedy owes $164,000, Ken Dryden owes $215,000, Joe Volpe owes $73,000 and Martha Hall Findlay still owes $125,000.
Kelly McParland summarizes the Liberal financial woes in his column in the National Post.
“If I was the Liberal party, I’d declare bankruptcy, hand in my credit cards, wait two years and then re-launch as the New Liberal Party, or the Liberal Democratic Party, or better still, the Memories of Pearson Party.
With 34 seats, party infighting, no leader and financial troubles, Stephen Harper’s plan might just be coming to fruition.
Far from being politically calculating, Its always been a key principle of conservatives to eliminate the public subsidy of political parties. In addition Canadians of all political stripes should not be forced to contribute to causes that they simply don’t support. As for the liberals they will have to find some way to adapt and survive in the new political reality without the benefit of the public purse. Or wither on the vine there is no other option.
Glen Pearson Admits That Liberals Won’t Balance The Budget
Liberal MP Glen Pearson admits that his party has no plan to get Canada out of deficit and balance its budget. Again the liberal show their true colors as tax and spenders who rather transfer money from your pocket to the government coffers.
Chris Alexander In Context
This is what Chris Alexander really said about the conservative plan for Lower Taxes. The original video now circulating around the liberal blogosphere is no more than a blatant cheap shot at Alexander.