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John Tory: Ontario’s Hillary Clinton



Ontario Progressive Conservative leader John Tory has something in common with US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. No, it’s not their political philosophy, although that would be a good guess.

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Hillary had a little meltdown after finishing third behind Barack Obama and John Edwards in the Iowa caucuses last week. As her eyes welled up with tears, she talked about how the campaign was personal to her. “I have so many opportunities for the country” she said as she played the victim card that no doubt helped propel her to victory in the New Hampshire primary. In her mind, the presidential election campaign is not about the United States or its people or even the Iraq war. It’s all about her. Which brings us to John Tory. If anything Tory is much more adept at using the “I” word than the former First Lady is. Tory doesn’t much care about Ontarians or their problems. To him his leadership is all about him. He made mistakes; he’ll do better; he wants to hold onto his job despite a move of some of the party faithful to replace him before the next election that will be held in October, 2011. In what was perhaps the most masterful piece of spin in the history of the province, Tory even rationalized losing his own seat last October. The PC leader said that it’s a good thing because it gives him an opportunity to travel the province and no doubt boost his already inflated ego. And besides, the legislature is a waste of time.  If John Tory could have spun like that back in 1993, he would probably be lounging around the Senate Chamber right now, occasionally glancing at legislation that was sent there from the Progressive Conservative government of Prime Minister Kim Campbell. Tory was quoted as saying, I’m fighting to keep my job because I think I can do it best and I can be a better premier than the current occupant”. The current occupant of course is Dalton McGuinty. Although McGuinty leaves a lot to be desired, with his lies and reckless spending, he does appear to have a purpose that transcends himself and his own self interest. And in fairness to Dalton McGuinty, he’s never had any trouble winning his own Ottawa riding. In Tory’s constant fixation with himself, he’s exactly like Hillary Clinton. But in fairness to Ms. Clinton, she was able to get elected to the United States Senate – twice! Now there are rumblings and accusations that Tory is attempting to fix the upcoming convention where a decision whether or not to hold a leadership review will be made. According to some of the party faithful, those who oppose Tory are having difficulty finding out when delegate selection meetings are being held and some peoples’ names have been left off of membership lists. If true, John Tory not only resembles Hillary Clinton, but Paul Martin Jr. too. Wow! Burger King could never come up with a combo like that. Martin of course spent so much time controlling the Liberal party members in order to become leader and prime minister that he never gave a thought about what he would do when he finally got the job. And the rest, as they say, is history. But in fairness to the former Honourable Member from LaSalle-Emard, Paul Martin always won his own riding. The issue is not whether the Progressive Conservative Party will get rid of John Tory. The question that has to be asked is will John Tory get rid of the PC party? If the latter happens it would be, as the great philosopher Yogi once said, déjà vu all over again. No matter what happens in the future we can be certain of one thing; John Tory will have an explanation for it and that explanation will begin with “I”.


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Arthur Weinreb is an author, columnist and Associate Editor of Canada Free Press. Arthur’s latest book, Ford Nation: Why hundreds of thousands of Torontonians supported their conservative crack-smoking mayor is available at Amazon. Racism and the Death of Trayvon Martin is also available at Smashwords. His work has appeared on Newsmax.com,  Drudge Report, Foxnews.com.

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