First off, yes, this is a Forum poll, but like BigcityLib, I’ll take it as a starting point as to what people think of Tim Hudak’s 100 000 public sector job cuts/1 million jobs created dual promises. So far, they don’t like it at all, or they don’t believe Timmy
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Maple-Flavoured Politics: The Hudak Campaign: The Liberal and NDP Secret Weapon
I can think of only five possible reasons for the way Tim Hudak and the PC team conducted the early part of their Ontario election campaign: Highly trained operatives from the Liberal and/or NDP camps infiltrated the PC team and are now running its campaign. The PCs came to realize
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Things To Come
The Ontario election is a preview of coming attractions. Tim Harper writes: It may appear Stephen Harper is being dragged into the Ontario election campaign by responding to goading by Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne. But Harper was on full combat footing when it came to Wynne’s made-in-Ontario pension plan even
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: The Gaffe-man
I’m almost starting to wonder whether Tim Hudak isn’t doing all of these “gaffes” on purpose; he and his campaign strategists surely can’t be THIS inept (can they?): The latest misstep happened Sunday, when Toronto Transit Commission enforcement officers broke up the Tory leader’s announcement in a busy subway car.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Oops!
But at least young Tim manages to retain his boyish grin during yet another campaign gaffe. Recommend this Post
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Tim Hudak, job-killer
It’s a bit of a headscratcher. First, Ontario Conservative leader Tim Hudak builds his whole campaign around a promise to create one million new jobs in Ontario over eight years, then one of his first campaign commitments threats is to reduce the number of Ontario government employees by 100,000, together with
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Tim Hudak and the Abominable Gila Monster
OK, I might as well say it. I need an Ontario election just when it's finally starting to feel like Spring, like I need a hole in the head, or Ontario needs Tim Hudak.Because he is a beastly Republican-style Con who would rip a hole the size of a province
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Rob’s Ghost
Rob Ford, we’re told, is somewhere in rehab. But his ghost haunts the Ontario Election. John Barber writes that his absence may, for the time being, be a blessing: Would NDP Leader Andrea Horwath have had the nerve to bring down Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals had Rob Ford not been whisked
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: How not to start an election campaign
Tim Hudak hasn’t exactly started off the unofficial Ontario election campaign in a blaze of glory. His opening day campaign stop yesterday to talk about his “million jobs” pledge stumbled when the recording studio owner (formerly of Triumph) noted he voted against The Music Fund in the 2013 Budget. Okay,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Can I Get Back To You On That?
Maybe I am just angry because a progressive budget was dismissed by an allegedly progressive party. Maybe I am fearful that an NDP-induced Ontario election could see the ascension to power of young Tim Hudak (‘I’ve got a plan to create one million jobs!’), who clearly will never be ready
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Thoughts on the upcoming provincial election in Ontario
You would know from reading this blog or searching its archives I’ve not exactly been overflowing in my praise for the Ontario Liberal government the past several years. I had issues with Dalton Mcguinty on environmental issues as well as omnibus Budget bills presented in the same fashion that Stephen
Continue readingMaple-Flavoured Politics: What Was Andrea Horwath Thinking?
On May 2, 2014, Andrea Horwath, leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party, announced that her party would vote against the Ontario budget tabled by the (Liberal) government. Before the budget was tabled—even before its contents were leaked—Tim Hudak, leader of the Ontario PC party (PC stands for Progressive Conservative,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Whose Sorry Now?
Perhaps NDP leader Andrea Horwath will be, for forcing an unnecessary Ontario election, if the results of a new Forum Research Poll hold throughout the campaign. The survey of 1,845 people across Ontario, conducted on Friday and Saturday, yielded the following reuslts: – 48 per cent of respondents approved of
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Ontario Politics
While I realize that the politics of Ontario is likely not a riveting subject for those living in other jurisdictions, I nonetheless offer this brief post on the election that has been called here for June 12. Given that the Wynne government presented a budget that by anyone’s standards would
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