Ontario’s Unaffordable Energy

From Toronto Star

Since becoming leader of the Ontario PC Party, I have travelled all over this great province talking to families, seniors and business owners about their rising hydro bills.
Whether I’m in Toronto, Timiskaming or home in Niagara, I am hearing similar stories everywhere I go. When the electricity bill arrives at people’s homes, it sits unopened for days because they know the bill only goes one way, and that’s up.
From smart meters, to the Green Energy Act, to the Samsung subsidy, electricity bills are skyrocketing. When you add in the impact of the HST and other rate increases, the annual cost of electricity bills for Ontario families is set to increase by another $732 per year by 2015, according to the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters.
Premier McGuinty is running Ontario’s hydro system in a way that is unsustainable. He’s handing out massive subsidies to preferential energy developers that are well above the market price for power. In the end, it’s you who pays the price on your hydro bills.
What do you think of Tim Hudak’s energy policy so far.?

 

Queens Park Condemns anti-Semitism in Academia

We must confront anti-Semitism wherever it is be it on Main Street or in the ivory tower of academia.

From On-Campus

Ontario immigration minister, Eric Hoskins is “disgusted” by a master’s thesis accepted by the University of Toronto that calls Holocaust education “racist.”


The thesis, submitted by graduate Jennifer Peto argues that the March of the Living and the March of Remembrance and Hope, both Holocaust education programs, perpetuate “Jewish victimhood” while obscuring “Jewish privilege,” denying “Jewish racism,” and promoting the “interests of the Israeli nation-state.

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Harper Rocks Out

The Tories were rocking around the Christmas tree tonight at their annual party. Even the Prime Minister got into the spirit by performing five of his favorite rock tunes.

The humanizing of  Harper is nice to see, it reminds Canadians that he has regular routes like most of us. To hear audio from the concert [ click here]

From Toronto Sun

After a day fending off opposition barbs in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Stephen Harper ditched his tie and played a little rock ’n’ roll in front of cheering MPs and political staff at the Conservative party’s annual Christmas party.


Harper led a four-piece band called Herringbone to sing and play four songs.


With Harper at an electric piano, the band led off with a cover of Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” and then followed that up with a cover of Scottish band The Proclaimers’ “I’m On My Way.”


Harper dedicated that one to Scotsman and senator, Doug Finley, the mastermind of Harper’s winning election campaigns who is recovering from surgery.

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It Started With Meech Lake

Former Liberal insider starts the blame Brian Mulroney campaign.


From Vancouver Sun
According to Jeffrey, it was Mulroney’s attempts to bring Quebec into the constitutional fold and the Meech Lake accord that really did the Liberals in, created a “perfect storm” and instigated caucus division — not based on personalities, but rather on the principles of federalism.


“That pretty much ripped the party asunder,” Jeffrey said, referring to the Meech Lake accord. The academic and former Liberal insider writes that the ordeal is blamed by some for the collapse of the Progressive Conservative Party, but few recognize the impact it had on what was once called Canada’s “natural governing party.”


“Nobody really understands how badly it affected the Liberal party,” she said in an interview. Jeffrey, who worked on Parliament Hill during John Turner’s term as leader of the Liberals, said disagreement over Meech Lake exposed a new cleavage that cut across the traditional divide between business and social Liberals.