Premier Dalton McGuinty could do his successor a huge favour by immediately dumping Dwight Duncan as Treasurer. Even Sandra Pupatello would not be as foolish as to be tied to all of Duncan’s bad calls with Ontario’s budget. And Duncan is backing her!
And yet here is Duncan preaching to anyone who will listen that the leadership candidates have to follow his path to salvation.
So Ontario has a $14 billion deficit and debts running on $300 billion. Guess what: we are not alone. We all have to survive today’s world financial crunch. You have to come up with ideas to get people working. You make sure everyone who is making money is paying a fair share to keep the deficit as low as possible. When the economy starts to recover, you can cut some of the deficit and start paying down debt.
Duncan must think he was elected by bankers and business. He forgets his first responsibility is to the citizens of Ontario. He is supposed to look after them first.
Some of those people he is supposed to be looking after are school teachers. Where does he get off threatening to use that Bill 115 to deny teachers their rights?
And he should stop dismissing everything Opposition Leader Tim Hudak says out of hand. Tiny Tim has a rare but good point about privatizing the LCBO. It is long overdue. Government should not be in the business of selling booze. Private enterprise is far more efficient and would produce far more in taxes for the government.
That formula is in place for casinos already. The government regulates (in fact, it duplicates its regulators) while private enterprise manages the casinos. Neither Tiny Tim nor Dwight Duncan has noticed that the formula is working.
But if the new Liberal premier let’s Tiny Tim run a campaign on privatizing booze sales and selling beer at convenience stores, he or she will deserve to lose. Can you imagine the shot in the arm that privatizing beer and booze sales would give Ontario’s economy?
Getting rid of both Duncan and McGuinty is a gift God has given us in Ontario. We have to be sure that we pick a new leader who is not tied to their lame legacy.
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Copyright 2012 © Peter Lowry
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