Category: Conservative politics

Indeed it was only last fall that Queens Park unanimously condemned anti-Semitism in academia.

This addressed by the Prime Minister reconfirming the government’s commitment to Israel , is timely because of the current disinformation campaign going on in Canadian campuses today.

For CJPAC (Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee), an organization with the mandate of educating and involving the Jewish community in political issues, a speaking engagement from the Prime Minister is a major coup.

And, as always, when speaking about Israel and other matters of interest to a Jewish audience, Prime Minister Harper did not disappoint. He again showed his support for Israel and his disdain for those who seek its destruction.

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From  Toronto Sun

“There seems to be, from the arbitrators, a lack of respect for the struggling Ontario families who get stuck with the bill at the end of the day,” Hudak said Wednesday.

Despite Premier Dalton McGuinty’s call for a public sector pay freeze, as he rolled out a red-ink budget last year, arbitrators have gone ahead and awarded salary hikes to thousands of workers.

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From  Exchange Morning Post

The Ontario Progressive Conservative Caucus’ motion calling on the Liberal government to create a mental health and addictions strategy for Ontario was supported by all parties in the Legislature.

The PC Caucus motion called upon the McGuinty Liberal government to table a mental health and addictions plan that reflects the recommendations made by the Select Committee on Mental Health and Addictions within 60 days. Sylvia Jones, MPP (Dufferin-Caledon) was a member of the Select Committee on Mental Health and Addictions, an all-party committee which last August presented 23 recommendations to improve mental health and addictions services in Ontario.

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Officially today Dalton McGuinty’s bad couple of days turned into a bad week with a new poll released showing the surging of the very competitive Ontario Tories  in the traditional Liberal stronghold of the 416 area. Earlier in the week a poll was released ranking McGuinty near the bottom in personal popularity among Canadian Premiers.

Now a party can have one bad poll that’s an aberration,  two is a problem, three has become a trend. If you can combine these latest results with the Nanos poll earlier this month showing the Ontario PCs slightly ahead of the Liberals there’s your trend. Indeed, it has become apparent that Ontarians are hungry for change.

Nothing happens in a vacuum, in many respects the Ontario P.C.’s and their federal cousins are experiencing a renaissance in areas that have not seen a o a conservative  representative for more than  a generation . Now no elections are won and nothing is finalized yet, but  the general uptick for the Conservatives is a good signal of things to come here in Ontario and perhaps across the country. For sure this is great news for political parties however the conservative movement should not stop advocating  for more conservative ideas and approaches in a “Evermore Bluer Canada”!