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Trudeau's Promises: Like the numerous wind turbines sucking wealth from Ontarians’ pockets these promises of easy wealth, like smoke, will dissipate into nothingness

Federal Libs grasping at straws



Pierre Trudeau’s son has attempted to put the shine back on the Liberal fire engine by holding a two-day retreat in southwestern Ontario, a part of the province that in recent years has lost a spate of manufacturing jobs. The Liberals are hoping to highlight the Harper Conservatives’ poor stewardship of the Canadian economy by focusing on Ontario’s rust belt.

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Kathleen Wynne replaced McGuinty, and continues to run the Liberal Party/Public Sector Union oligopoly

Good luck with that, as the majority of job losses can be directly ascribed to Trudeau’s Liberal cousins running Ontario for the past decade. First it was under the morally challenged Dalton McGuinty, who never made a promise that he couldn’t break, before sneaking off to his safe house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Kathleen Wynne replaced McGuinty, and continues to run the Liberal Party/Public Sector Union oligopoly. There are many reasons why unemployment rates in Ontario are higher than those in the rest of Canada. But the Harper Government isn’t among them, because the Conservatives did a masterful job of managing Canada’s economy throughout the Great Recession, as was evidenced last year when Canada’s middle class emerged as the wealthiest among G-20 nations. What’s more Canada did not experience a real estate meltdown the way a lot of the rest of the world did because Canadian banking law kept the sub-prime mortgage toxin out of Canada.

Ontario has the highest electricity costs of any jurisdiction in North America

If Trudeau fils were really looking for someone to blame for Ontarians’ economic woes, a good place to start would be with the Provincial Liberals. There are numerous reasons why the Ontario economy is lagging, chief among them the Clean Energy Act that mandated alternative (green) energy sources for Ontario’s electricity supply. The outcome is that Ontario has the highest electricity costs of any jurisdiction in North America, higher even than California. And we all know that manufacturing requires a lot of electricity. The Liberals made a deal with South Korean manufacturing giant Samsung to produce $10 billion worth of windmills, thousands of which are now polluting the landscape all over Ontario as well as countless solar installations. What’s more, each wind or solar installation requires a traditional coal, gas or hydro generation facility for those cloudy days when the wind doesn’t blow. Adding insult to injury, Ontario is often forced to sell surplus electricity to neighbouring jurisdictions, like New York and Michigan at a loss! These “green” energy sources account for about 4% of the provinces electricity, yet are responsible for over 30% of the cost.

"Green” energy sources account for about 4% of the provinces electricity, yet are responsible for over 30% of the cost

Then there’s the small matter of the provincial budget deficit. It’s actually no “small” matter, given that currently Ontario’s Liberals are spending a lot more than they’re taking in in taxes, with no end in sight. By the end of fiscal 2013, Ontario’s debt was a whopping $288.10 billion representing 37.4% of GDP, the highest in Ontario history. If more than one-third of your gross domestic product is debt that goes to fund a ravenous beast addicted to shopping, then the future doesn’t look very promising. The only thing young Trudeau and his minions are likely to have achieved at their caucus retreat in southwestern Ontario is blowing smoke into the ears of local politicians with promises of easy prosperity. And like the numerous wind turbines sucking wealth from Ontarians’ pockets these promises of easy wealth, like smoke, will dissipate into nothingness.


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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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