Ont liberals gas plant lies

"For Ms. Wynne’s government, the Privacy Commissioner’s report could not come at a worse time — and the opposition knows it. They are demanding blood, in the form of either a public inquiry, or an election.

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An inquiry would probably last longer than the current minority government. With the lack of a proper electronic paper trail, it might not even be worth it. And it also isn’t going to happen: Ms. Wynne has already responded to the report, saying that her government is acting to ensure that better record-keeping is done. That leaves going to the polls as the only option — one which Andrea Horwath’s NDP was not willing to take over the recent budget, likely because polls showed that the party didn’t have enough votes to form government, and risked ushering in a Tory administration instead. With these new revelations, however, it is hard for the opposition parties not to introduce a non-confidence motion to force an election. While risky, it would be the most honest and accountable move to make — at a time when voters sorely need one." More... "The theory that Mr. McGuinty stepped aside in October specifically so that he wouldn’t be in office when all of this bad news eventually tumbled out must now also be given a lot more credence. The former premier had a remarkable knack for surviving his ethical lapses; it was as though a certain chunk of the electorate took stock of his sleeves-rolled-up, avuncular image and concluded that he couldn’t be all that bad. But this was bad. A shameless political decision — two of them — followed by a deliberate attempt to cloud the transparency of those decisions. Laws were broken. At what point will Ontario have had enough of this?" More... Mrs. Alide Forstmanis Kitchener ON

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