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From the Editor

Putting the boots to the woodland trillium

by Judi McLeod

February 3, 2005

No longer welcome in Premier Dalton McGuinty's sanitized Ontario: the white woodland trillium.

The trillium was destined to become the Liberal premier's next victim. He's forced smokers into the alleyways behind government buildings, making Ontario the smoke-free bastion of the free world and saving the lungs of the tourists when they return from the two-year-old Toronto SaRS scare. Pollution from trucks and buses does not happen on the streets of Ontario cities and towns, and should it ever become a problem, McGuinty will zap it with the closest fly swatter.

While the trillium, as Ontario's official emblem, is being pushed aside for some other… pansy, the dandelion is dominant now that pesticides have been banned from use on private lawns.

So what does "Uncle Dalty" (the nickname dubbed to the premier by Canada Free Press columnist arthur Weinreb) have against the terrible trillium? It's not that he's allergic to it, the tender trillium likely reminds him of a potato chip, the ones he banned from school vending machines so that little Johnny will never grow up to be a porker.

Or maybe it's old-fashioned, Liberal wintertime boredom.

The trillium as Ontario's official flower has been there forever. It even survived unscathed under Bob Rae's socialist provincial government that nearly killed everything else back in the early 1990s.

Citizens who dared to pluck trilliums during woodland walks were slapped with fines long before the Liberals ever waltzed into office at Queen's Park.

Sanitizing the great unwashed has been the mission of the provincial Liberals, who seized on the idea that cleanliness is next to Godliness before toppling those slash-and-burn Conservatives.

The McGuinty government is trying to make a name for itself in revolutionizing medicine in Ontario. Problem is, they're firing all their cannons on our over-worked, over-governed doctors, leaving their constituents without benefit of the family physician.

When McGuinty is not reminding us that he's the duly elected premier, he's wearing his other hat as the unofficial Education Minister. One of his more recent overzealous measures is forcing would be school dropouts to stay in school until age 18. The avant garde education minister is hoping two more years for teenagers having to sit behind a classroom desk will somehow make them finally learn the art of reading and writing. In his well-ordered life, Uncle Dalty has never had to deal with teenage sulks.

People living outside the Province of Ontario would likely know little of the Dalton McGuinty Liberals cleaning up house at the Legislature. Provincial Liberals are sort of Ottawa Liberals without the brains.

While Dalty and Company go traipsing through the woods to study--close-up--the makeup of the fragile trillium, his citizens are walking over infrastructure that's literally crumbling beneath their feet.

With the long road of broken promises from McGuinty's pals in Ottawa to fix it, the infrastructure has been crumbling for decades.

according to a study undertaken by the feisty Toronto Sun, the City of Toronto's $53-billion infrastructure is being held together by baling wire and duct tape.

The three amigos: McGuinty, globe-trotting, UN-loving Prime Minister Paul Martin and Socialist Mayor David Miller remain playing outside in the fields.

Meanwhile, nothing is sacrosanct to the social engineer. History will undoubtedly mark the Red Letter Day when the politically correct Liberal Government of Ontario put the boots to the offensive trillium.

Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com


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