If there was ever a closed shop in Ontario, it is that bunch of bozos ruling the roost down at the Ontario Legislature today. As an insider in all of this, you have to be embarrassed by it. While we might have fallen a bit out of favour over the years, we can still remember the day when you could hold your head high as a Liberal at Queen’s Park.
What annoying act of pomposity that is stuck in the craw today is the permanent appointment of TD Bank’s Ed Clark as grand poobah of everything important at Queen’s Park. This is the guy who thinks the Weston Family Trust should sell beer in Ontario. Nobody elected Clark to anything. With all of that talent concentrated in her office, can we expect Premier Wynne to be send the MPPs to collective farms to earn their keep?
Ed Clark’s appointment as permanent chair of the Premier’s advisory council on selling off all the government assets, reminds us of that really stupid television commercial being run about Justin Trudeau applying for the job of prime minister. You wonder what those supercilious jerks would say when they considered the other two applications.
But did anyone else get a chance to apply for Ed Clark’s job? Was the position advertised? Are there any qualifications required? Do you have to be an ex-banker? We already have an ex-banker in the finance job. His name is Charles Sousa. Obviously Premier Wynne does not trust Sousa. Why does she not fire Sousa as finance minister and give that job to Ed Clark? We expect he needs to be elected to hold that position.
But look at all Ed Clark has accomplished while filling in as a temp worker for Ms. Wynne. He has got Hydro One poised for the big rip-off. The Liberal government has removed all over-sight from the deal and is now prepared to make those selling the stock to the public richer than they were before. All we know for sure is that the hydro user is going to end up paying for everything. Who else would pay for this mistake?
And, oh yes, we should not forget the three card monte of beer sales in Ontario. It is only one in three of the so-called super-grocery-and-everything-else stores in Ontario that will be selling beer. Why it is one in three must be to keep the public guessing which ones have beer and provide some leverage for the recycling people at the old beer stores.
Yah, we know. The whole beer and wine and alcohol sales business in Ontario is an out-of-touch mess. So is the government of Ontario.
-30-
Copyright 2015 © Peter Lowry
Complaints, comments, criticisms and compliments can be sent to [email protected]