Talking, the other day, about how lawyers are the only ones happy with the Ford government in Ontario, you have to admit that is our own fault. Did we really have a clue as to what it would cost the voters to throw out the McGinty/Wynne government? This might be the only reason I might consider proportional representation.
We simply cannot afford to have alternative governments throwing out the baby, the bath water and our tax money every time some of us get mad and change governments. If each government is going to spend much of its first year in office throwing out the programs of the previous government, we are in a great deal of trouble—and wasting large amounts of money.
Look at the monies being spend in America today as Trump tries to kill Obamacare. Trump is a child at a fair who wants every prize on the midway. He sure is making America great again—great at spending money that it has to borrow from China.
Doug Ford in Ontario has already proved that he is an idiot. He promised the voters that it would cost them nothing to get rid of the president of Hydro One. I wish he would fire me for a $9 million settlement. And we would only be guessing to estimate the final settlement with the rest of the board.
The most serious cost with Dougie is that he is a global warming denier. He does not give a damn about the environment. In a world of wind turbines, Dougie would rip them all out of the ground in Ontario. He has scrapped the support for electric cars. He is fighting the federal carbon tax in court.
I hate to admit that the best answer to this type of government upset is to move to proportional representation. Under a proportional voting system Dougie and his party would probably be to-day’s official opposition in Ontario. The conservatives might have had 40 per cent of the votes but it would have likely been Andrea Horwath and her new democrats who would have formed the government with the support of the liberals. Neither of these parties would have made a deal with Dougie!
Admittedly, under a proportional system of government, it takes longer to get things done. It can also stop someone like Dougie from screwing things up.
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