I have been wondering for a long time when the teflon would come off Premier McGuinty. With all of the scandals, government waste, arrogance and general mismanagement of Ontario it was only a matter of time before voters started to bite back at him. Well, the latest poll shows that this is starting to happen. […]
I hope you are busy enjoying the summer and have not been roped in by our national media’s latest manufactured crisis - the census issue. As mentioned in an earlier blog posting, I was asked to speak at the committee hearings about this - click here to watch. I told the committee that the threat […]
Hopefully most of you have had a chance to enjoy some summer weather with family and friends. I am sure the last thing on your mind is politics, and good for you if you have found the chance to escape the petty posturing of our politicians!
The political types are busy back in their ridings at […]
It is not all that often that we see a politician who has a high profile cabinet post in a majority government do the right thing and stand up for his constiuents. Such is the case in this regard and you can read some background on this here.
Blair Lekstrom is one of those rare politicians, […]
I am sure you have been reading about the skyrocketing costs of security for the upcoming G8 Summit in Huntsville and the G20 Summit in Toronto. If not you can read an article about this here.
Downtown Toronto will be turned into a 3-metre high wired war zone for lack of better terminology. People working within […]
NCC President and CEO Peter Coleman was recently asked to attend the federal Industry Committee hearings on the long-form census - and boy, is it good to have some common sense back on the menu. Too many special interest groups have been clouding this issue with claims that the census is essentially their life-line. Thankfully, […]
Ontarians have been called complacent many times in the past year. The HST provided an excellent example of BC activism thrown into stark contrast by Ontario’s relative lack thereof.
In Ontario, McGuinty has been very lucky to have avoided waking the sleeping dragon of taxpayer anger. There are handfuls of scandals to choose from, and it […]
I hope that this email reaches you all as you are getting ready for the first long weekend of the summer - hopefully, one that you can enjoy with your family and friends. With the images of burning police cars from the G20 summit fading into the rear view mirror (that is if our media […]
As they head back to their ridings for the summer BBQ circuit, one has to really wonder what has been accomplished in the spring session of Parliament. Continued debate over the Afghan detainee documents seemed to be the dominating theme, along with the exhorbitant costs of the G8 and G20 summits. Let’s hope that federal […]
There is a great deal of noise right now about a potential coalition of the Liberals and the NDP. That’s right - even more posturing in ths fight against the big bad Harper government. You can read an article here to get some background on this.
From my vantage point, there are too many over-sized egos […]
