Some observers consider it just arrogance but the problems of Kathleen Wynne’s Ontario government could be based on a subconscious desire to end the sham. And they could end it if there was any plausible replacement government to them at hand.
But maybe that is why it comes across as arrogance. Take this new Energy Minister Glenn Thibeault. For all the political machinations and police investigations and other embarrassments over getting that guy elected, you would think he would have the decency to do a better job. He could also stop lying about having no control of the Ontario Energy Board. Just who the hell does he think we should blame for appointments to that board?
He thinks consumers have no right to complain when carbon taxes are added to consumers’ bills as a ‘delivery’ charge—and the gas user is supposed to pay the harmonized sales tax (HST) on top of the damn carbon tax.
Carbon taxes have nothing whatsoever to do with delivery of gas to the consumer. They have to do with the usage of the gas as a carbon tax is supposed to represent a penalty for the expelling of carbon into our fragile environment.
But from the beginning of all the silliness over carbon taxing, it has been nothing more than a cash grab by governments. If we are supposed to think carbon taxes are revenue neutral, just where the hell will we find our money?
The pitiful part of all this is the childish tantrums of Ontario’ useless opposition parties over the constant increases. They continue to wail crocodile tears on behalf of the poor consumer when they have no clue as to possible solutions. Those losers just want to get their grubby hands into the cookie jar without having any better ideas than the Wynne government.
It all comes down to the Minister of Energy getting his facts straight and representing the people of Ontario. Instead he seems to be working for the energy companies that sell energy at outrageous prices that are being inflated by added charges from a government obsessed with taxing itself out of debt and out of office.
And one other conclusion occurs to us in following these machinations. The Premier must hand out song sheets to each of her cabinet members every day. It is so the ministers and the premier can be in sync when questioned by the news media. At least she and Mr. Thibeault seem to use exactly the same words to respond to the same question. Maybe ministers are not allowed to think for themselves.
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