Slap a top hat on his head and Dalton McGuinty could have been a dead ringer for Johnny Depp in Tim Burton’s brilliant 3-D adaptation of Alice in Wonderland.
I thought I’d fallen down a rabbit hole and come face to face with the Mad Hatter during Monday’s throne speech.
To listen to the McGuinty yesterday, you’d have thought everything was ticking along nicely in this province.
The best thing about the speech was the flawless delivery by Lt.-Gov. David Onley.
To listen to all the warmy fuzzies, you’d never guess we’ve achieved have-not status, going from first to last in Confederation or that we’d lost thousands of jobs. You’d have no idea this government was wallowing in $24.7-billion worth of deficit.
Yet there was barely a passing reference to how the government plans to balance the books.
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I don’t know where else to start this, but on Jack’s site.
I have been talking to a lot of my customers and whether it’s a motorcycle or car or truck. Insurance rates are going up, up , up.
I would like to see the next Ontario Provincial election run on lowering our insurance rates and getting rid of no fault!!
What say you??
Dalton’s big new “five year plan” out of Gorky Park , whoops, I mean Queens Park, is stuffing our already overstuffed plant and equipment on campus with foreign students. The Globe and Mail says “The five-year plan called Open Ontario begins with providing funding in the budget for the 20,000 new postsecondary spaces this year. Ontario hopes to emulate Australia, where international education ranks as the third-largest industry, Mr. McGuinty said.”
Calling Jane Taber… there’s another Australian idea you’ll like, as long as Liberals do it. Also McGuinty prorogues, which it’s OK if Liberals do it.
To get an idea about how overstuffed we already are on campus, if you take Anthropology 101 at UoT, the class is held at Roy Thompson Hall, sounds nice eh? But it has 1200 students jammed in there. Can you imagine trying to ask a question in class? They actually have the gall to call it a “class”. Wouldn’t it make more sense to close UoT and put it all on YouTube? Call it eEducation , get Smitherman to run it because he’s so much wiser now since he learned how NOT to run eHealth.
What will inevitably happen with this new Dalton idea is that our own students will become a burden on the system because we don’t pay full freight and the foreigners do. Therefore we get the shaft to educate China. No doubt Dalton has been listening to his cabal of chattering class geniuses like Richard Florida and Roger “the cluster guy” Martin.
Can we please get a common sense person to run a (drop the Progressive) Conservative opposition with some ideas about how to save Ontario from these morons?
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Somehow, McGuinty manages to roll from boondoggle to scandal to boondoggle yet still manages to come up smelling like a rose rather than fertilizer. Let’s hope Hudak and company are more effective than John Tory…