Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Everyone Should Read This
Quick post - please read this article written by Neil MacDonald of the CBC on torture and the Bush administration.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Why McGuinty?
Why? It's a simple question. Why would the people of Ontario vote for this person and party after being savaged for four years with broken promises and inept government? Also, only 23% of eligible voters voted for this party and they won a majority. What does this say about the health of democracy in Ontario? Only 54.6 percent of voters voted and of those only 42.19% voted for the Liberals.
The Liberals were inept: Caledonia and the rule of law abandoned, Sarnia P3 $180 million over budget, coal plants not closed (because anyone with half a brain could see that they could not be closed - before the promise was even made), 407 tolls not rolled back, hydro rates not capped, etc, etc. These folks don't care if a promise can be kept: they don't even do the research to try and figure it out. All they do is poll an idea and, if the electorate seems positive on the idea, they promise it. I don't want to hear from people in Ontario that they don't like to be BSed if they voted Liberal.
I may disagree with some NDP policies but I think they actually believe what they are saying and will try to do what they say they will do. I thought the PCs had a good platform but nobody read it because the media whipped up the faith-based schools issue in to a hysterical frenzy. Even the ever-cool Howard Hampton blew up and chewed them out for being such twits. The Liberals flipped the electorate the bird as far as accountability goes and I don't think they care what they say or how it correlates to what they do.
McGuinty won't answer questions and do the journalists beat him up for it? No. His lack of an answer gets a one or two sentence write-up and then the journalists go back to writing about faith-based schools, Darwin, the Scopes Monkey Trial, anything else that doesn't matter and then ask when is Tory going to do the right thing and give this up? Tory gives up and then they beat up on him for not sticking to his principles a la McGuinty. The reporters still don't beat up on McGuinty for ignoring them (and the readers/viewers that the journalists supposedly serve) but instead go on about how the PCs lost the election and whether will Tory survive.
To be honest Tory did not stand up to the beating well in terms of explaining the faith-based policy but, given the media mindset, no-one could. Better support from the parents of the 53,000 kids who would have benefited from this plan would have helped. I read a small number of articles (maybe four) from supporters but these were tiny compared to the "Tory says creationism can be taught in school - panic now!" articles.
I read a couple of blogs from conservative voters who weren't going to vote PC because of the faith-based issue or because they thought John Tory was a "Red Tory" (i.e not Iron Mike Harris). Firstly faith-based is a non-issue that would have no effect whatsoever on anybody except for the 53,000 students and their parents. If you changed your vote for this reason then you are too easily fooled in my opinion. If you didn't vote PC because of the "Red Tory" issue then you forgot to read the platform and forgot that in elections you campaign from the middle and govern from, in the PC case, the right. John Tory is a business leader who could make this province work. He is not a Red Tory of the Liberal variety.
It's going to be four more sad years in Ontario.
The Liberals were inept: Caledonia and the rule of law abandoned, Sarnia P3 $180 million over budget, coal plants not closed (because anyone with half a brain could see that they could not be closed - before the promise was even made), 407 tolls not rolled back, hydro rates not capped, etc, etc. These folks don't care if a promise can be kept: they don't even do the research to try and figure it out. All they do is poll an idea and, if the electorate seems positive on the idea, they promise it. I don't want to hear from people in Ontario that they don't like to be BSed if they voted Liberal.
I may disagree with some NDP policies but I think they actually believe what they are saying and will try to do what they say they will do. I thought the PCs had a good platform but nobody read it because the media whipped up the faith-based schools issue in to a hysterical frenzy. Even the ever-cool Howard Hampton blew up and chewed them out for being such twits. The Liberals flipped the electorate the bird as far as accountability goes and I don't think they care what they say or how it correlates to what they do.
McGuinty won't answer questions and do the journalists beat him up for it? No. His lack of an answer gets a one or two sentence write-up and then the journalists go back to writing about faith-based schools, Darwin, the Scopes Monkey Trial, anything else that doesn't matter and then ask when is Tory going to do the right thing and give this up? Tory gives up and then they beat up on him for not sticking to his principles a la McGuinty. The reporters still don't beat up on McGuinty for ignoring them (and the readers/viewers that the journalists supposedly serve) but instead go on about how the PCs lost the election and whether will Tory survive.
To be honest Tory did not stand up to the beating well in terms of explaining the faith-based policy but, given the media mindset, no-one could. Better support from the parents of the 53,000 kids who would have benefited from this plan would have helped. I read a small number of articles (maybe four) from supporters but these were tiny compared to the "Tory says creationism can be taught in school - panic now!" articles.
I read a couple of blogs from conservative voters who weren't going to vote PC because of the faith-based issue or because they thought John Tory was a "Red Tory" (i.e not Iron Mike Harris). Firstly faith-based is a non-issue that would have no effect whatsoever on anybody except for the 53,000 students and their parents. If you changed your vote for this reason then you are too easily fooled in my opinion. If you didn't vote PC because of the "Red Tory" issue then you forgot to read the platform and forgot that in elections you campaign from the middle and govern from, in the PC case, the right. John Tory is a business leader who could make this province work. He is not a Red Tory of the Liberal variety.
It's going to be four more sad years in Ontario.
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