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Mr. McGuinty and his caucus is intellectually (as well as morally) bankrupt

Ontario: Happy Family Day, suckers



Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty is famous for lying to voters, having broken nearly 100% of his over 230 election promises that he made during the 2003 campaign against Ernie Eves.

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During the 2007 election campaign, he made a promise to voters that was really easy to keep; he promised Ontarians an extra holiday, called “Family Day” every February and today you are enjoying the first official celebration of that happy day in the province of Ontario. You see, it’s easy for Dalton to keep such promises, as paying for this one doesn’t really affect the province’s budget adversely. Other people will have to pay for it. People like the corporations with sufficient financial strength to afford to give everyone on the payroll an extra day off and municipalities who will merely bump property taxes to pay its employees to be idle seem to be able to afford the celebration of family day. Small businesses and federal employees, such as the postal workers and Canada Revenue Agency types, of course will not be enjoying that free day with their families because the federal government doesn’t feel honor bound to keep Dalton’s promises. Most small businesses can’t afford to give all their employees that extra day, as it would adversely affect their survival, er bottom line. But hey, for Dalton, such trivialities don’t matter, as he finds himself being able to crow about keeping campaign promises. Those of us who aren’t easily dazzled by bright shiny objects find McGuinty’s kept promise cynical in the extreme. His campaign wasn’t about addressing the problems that are endemic to Ontario. His government has done nothing to improve the lot of sick people in Ontario, save and except for the disinformation campaign his health minister, the flamboyant George Smitherman is waging. He promised to increase the number of doctors in the province by spending more money on health care. No one seems to know what all the additional money he spent during his first term has achieved. Anyone who has an aging and ill family member can attest to the substandard care provided by Ontario’s hospitals...and it’s not the fault of the doctors or nurses. He is doing nothing about the Mafia-style shakedowns now being perpetrated against businesses by so-called First Nations along the Grand River, who behave more like mob thugs than actual statesmen. He has done nothing to enforce court orders against the illegal occupiers of the 40-hectare Douglas Creek Estates in Caledonia, which is now preparing to enter its third year. He caved in to teacher demands to eliminate proficiency testing of students in grades three, six and nine and has agreed with teachers’ unions that teachers should not have their performance reviewed by the government. His only answer to gun crime in Toronto is to blame it on the Americans’ “gun culture” and to urge the federal government to further restrict gun ownership among law-abiding farmers. His answer to the city of Toronto’s infrastructure problems was to give the socialist spendaholics at Toronto City Hall additional taxing powers in the form of the City of Toronto Act. Within less than one month of its coming into effect, the Act has adversely affected the real estate market within the city limits due to the land transfer tax city has newly instituted. Finally, it’s an irony of Orwellian proportions that “Family Day” should be instituted by a regime whose policies have attempted to eliminate the family and replace it with the nanny state. Clearly Mr. McGuinty and his caucus is intellectually (as well as morally) bankrupt if the best they can do to improve the lot of Ontarians is to give some of them an extra day off.


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Klaus Rohrich -- Bio and Archives

Klaus Rohrich is senior columnist for Canada Free Press. Klaus also writes topical articles for numerous magazines. He has a regular column on RetirementHomes and is currently working on his first book dealing with the toxicity of liberalism.  His work has been featured on the Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, among others.  He lives and works in a small town outside of Toronto.

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