Somebody in the Ontario Conservative party is going to have to take Ottawa-Vanier PC candidate André Marin aside and read the riot act to him. The guy thinks he is lawman Wyatt Earp. He actually describes himself as an anti-corruption and ethics expert. And that is the last thing PC leader Patrick Brown wants in the PC Corral down at Queen’s Park.
Get this: Marin is sending out fundraising e-mails that are reported to say “This is one of the most unscrupulous and unethical governments in Ontario’s history.” Boy, that is sure biting the hand that fed him for the past ten years.
Who does Marin think he is, Donald Trump?
And where was Marin hiding in the years of the Mike Harris government? At least when Marin was ombudsman for the Ontario government of Dalton McGuinty, nobody shot one of our aboriginals just because the premier was annoyed at a protest.
But his real concern is that too many of the voters in Ottawa-Vanier are going to find out how useless he was when he was ombudsman for the Canadian army and how bad he turned out to be as Ontario ombudsman. As an experienced crown attorney, he cannot even name just one successful investigation and conviction from his office in the ten years Marin had to prove himself in Ontario.
It seems that the biggest boondoggle at Queen’s Park during the McGinty-Wynne years has been André Marin.
We will leave it to the auditors to discuss his office procedures and expenses.
When nobody at Queen’s Park (including Conservatives) stood in the Legislature to support him staying on as ombudsman, it told us everything we needed to know about him.
If the voters in Ottawa-Vanier are so tired of Kathleen Wynne and her government that they send someone like him to represent them, they will deserve nothing and they will certainly get nothing in return.
And if Marin thinks Canadian politics allow you to make corruption charges so casually, he has another think coming. People who live in glass houses do not get to throw the biggest rocks.
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