I will leave the high-minded discussion of  tending the garden of our democracy till tomorrow.  simply put it is a right and mostly a privilege to be able to cast a ballot in a free democracy. In 2007 our province only achieved a 52% voter turnout rate. That is alarming in many respects. There is a whole host of reasons why there is such a low voter participation So get out there and exercise your democratic duty and vote.

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.

HT Christian Conservatives

Jan Carr, who was head of the Ontario power Authority admitted that the cornerstone of the Liberals program energy initiative the Feed-In Tariff (FIT) program is unsustainable.  I said it once and I’ll say it again, you can’t subsidize your way to prosperity.

From Ottawa Citizen

In an interview, Carr said FIT has “a lot of merit” as a concept. But “it’s being implemented incorrectly and we need to get back to basics.”
He said the FIT program is an industrial strategy, not an energy policy. “What we’re doing is essentially driving up the cost of energy for the purpose of creating jobs.”
But the strategy is self-defeating, he said, because higher energy costs will destroy jobs. “I’m really arguing for untangling energy policy from all these other things, which is making a mess of our energy strategy.”
Homeowners are already complaining about the cost of electricity, Carr noted, and the high fees paid under the FIT program “haven’t even hit customers’ bills yet. The worst is yet to come.”

Four more years of McGuinty means higher costs on your Hydro bills.

I subscribe to, the notion that past behavior is a predictor of future events. Nothing in the Liberals passed musings about a possible carbon tax, has given me the impression that they have totally given up on this idea.

In the light of recent events, I thought it was worth revisiting what other liberals have said about a carbon tax.


“And, Miller’s report adds it is time to discuss putting a price on carbon by undertaking a formal review to compare the merits of emissions trading and a carbon tax.”




Gord Miller  Ontario’s environment commissioner 
Tue Jun 01 2010 Toronto Star




“An early and clear price signal is needed to influence the investment decisions by industry in the technology and innovation required to achieve deep reductions.”….This is the time to move the discussion ahead. There is a huge sense of urgency,”


 Cabinet minister  Glenn Murray 
Reuters published onMon Jan 7, 2008




“It is time for all of us to start to get comfortable with two words: Carbon tax. Without it, all these dreams of a green tomorrow are hallucinations.” (Glen Murray, Toronto Star, May 27 2007).




“I have looked at increasing taxes in some areas. For example, I argued for moving toward more carbon taxation.” (Jack Mintz, The
Agenda With Steve Paikin, February 23, 2011).


fast forward to minute 9:49 in the video to hear the quote