Category: Conservative politics

The Premier has finally discovered social media can be used as a way to connect with voters. Although this is a new frontier for McGuinty, Tim Hudak has been leading the way on online social advocacy in Ontario.

“When people show up and tell me they’re unhappy with certain things, you can’t help but say you know, I better make sure I give full thought to where we move next on this score. When people are tweeting at me, I get that.”

The rock ‘n roll and twitter wars I can’t take it anymore, here is a comparison of each of the twitter accounts of all the party leaders in Ontario.

It is clear  Tim Hudak is a leader online and in the polls. A general strategy for any politician is not to follow anyone under the sun, but make a concerted effort to reach out to your core supporters and base. This populist approach might pay off during election time.

A choice that all leaders have to make to face the music or get out of the way.

Source Windsor Star
The list of Canadian premiers and prime ministers hounded out of office by their own side is almost as long as the list of departed party leaders.


So expect McGuinty to take a “long walk in the snow,” to quote a famous line of Pierre Trudeau’s.


Despite all the hagiography written about the late Liberal deity this week, bad polls forced the great Trudeau to reconsider his future and step down in 1984.


It was either that or face the enormous humiliation of being dumped during a Liberal leadership convention.


The party had already decided he had become a serious impediment on their return to power and wanted him out.


Unless the HST suddenly disappears or hydro bills suddenly shrink — two big, black “Fs” that will never disappear from McGuinty’s report card — the premier will almost certainly have to tender his resignation some time in 2011, no doubt to spend more time with his family.
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It’s not hard to make priorities when you listen to the people and you know what you want to do.
Source Ottawa Citizen

“We’ve set three priorities for this session,” Hudak says of his Opposition MPPs. The first will be defending “the family budget” from the increasing burden of taxes and fees in Ontario.


Hudak says one message came through loud and clear during a summer spent touring the province: “Life is increasingly unaffordable under Dalton McGuinty.”


Priority 2 for the Tories will be cashing in on the growing public anger with hydro rates. Hudak said he will be attacking runaway growth in bureaucracy and rates in Ontario’s energy sector that are crushing family budgets and “turning the lights off” at industrial employers.


The second priority will include attacking the $7-billion wind and solar power deal the Liberals have signed with Korean giant Samsung — the one that’s supposed to produce thousands of green jobs in Windsor and Essex County.


And finally, the third priority for the PCs this fall will be “rooting out waste in the government and redirecting it to services,” Hudak says.


That third priority includes Hudak continuing his attacks on the Local Health Integration Networks, which his party says divert $250 million per year away from front-line health care to an unneeded and unwanted new layer of health care bureaucracy in Ontario.


The only part of their recent record the Liberals seemed to want to defend Monday was the $50 tax credit for children’s activities the party announced this month. And even that bit of supposed good news is more of “an insult” to working families than it is a tax credit, Hudak scoffs.