If it was just the arrogance of the Wynne Liberals, maybe we could be more forgiving. It is the piling on of confusion and corruption that makes them so different from the Trudeau Liberals in Ottawa. The Trudeau Liberals are progressives. The Wynne Wimps are regressive. Canadians have a fairly good handle on where Trudeau and Company in Ottawa want to go. There is just no telling where the Wynne Wimps are taking Ontario.
The Wynne crowd are certainly confusing the voters. They are ignoring the concerns of the electricity customer in selling off shares of Hydro One. That was an idea that the Harris Conservatives originated and dropped. Maybe they realized it would cause constant pressure to raise electricity rates to consumers.
We can understand the need to fix the pensions situation in Ontario and it makes sense to tie it all up with the structure needed for the Canada Pension Plan. It would be even better if Finance Minister Sousa and his friends did a better job of selling their plan. The decision to delay the start for a year to get it together with the federal government was seen as a weakness instead of a necessary improvement.
But the Wynne Wimps want to get all their publicity from their faltering half steps into beer and wine sales in grocery stores. All they have accomplished to-date is to look silly with their over-hyped and confused approach that pleases nobody.
And giving the credit to a former banker for these ideas seems to be convincing the public that they might as well dump Wynne and elect the banker.
Not that any current political leader in Ontario is worth anything. Both Wynne and the current Progressive Conservative leader won the leadership of their respective party with questionable tactics. Neither has shown any talent for leadership before or after.
And speaking of leadership, the Ontario New Democrats have a similar problem. If someone would just look interested in the job, the NDP immediately would dump their current leader.
With three ineffectual leaders set to square off in two years, the province is in trouble. Ontario has serious problems in education, employment, health care, highways and municipal needs. Those problems need solutions from real liberals.
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