One of the first promises that Tim Hudak, leader of the Ontario PC party, made in his race to become Premier of Ontario was that he was going to create one-million jobs. Actually, he was pitching that before the election was called. How? Well, there aren’t a lot of details
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Progressive Proselytizing: While Wynne goes to the left, Hudak dives hard right
You might have thought that Tim Hudak would have learned his lesson after his disastrous and short lived attempt to push his party towards US style union busting: going hard right in Ontario isn’t a winning strategy. Well, he is at it again with the first two major campaign announcement
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 readingPOLL: Ontario Election – Who Has the Best Bus?
Will Kathleen Wynne’s steady hands stay at 10 and 2? How many of Tim Hudak’s million jobs are for designing bus wrap slogans? What’s the insurance rate for Andrea Horwath’s campaign vehicle? Transportation, already a prominent issue in the 2014 provincial election, intersects with many aspects of politics, policy, and
Continue readingEh Types: Wynne’s to Lose
The provincial election in Ontario is only a week old. Polls suggest a tight race lies ahead, and of course campaigns matter. All that said, on June 13th Kathleen Wynne will still be Premier of Ontario and if she had a slim majority to go with it I would not
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jim Stanford writes that Tim Hudak’s combination of austerity and indiscriminate tax slashing represents a recipe for less jobs rather than more: Mr. Hudak’s initial policy agenda is mostly a recycled business wish list: cut taxes, cut regulations, pay for training, cut energy
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 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 readingTrashy's World: Hudak vows to cancel full day Kindergarten
As a volunteer on a not-for-profit childcare centre Board, I can say with some authority that the FDK horse has left the barn. There has been some bumps on the road to implementation, but it has overall been a success. Furthermore, cancelling it now in its final stage of implementation
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Wynne suing Hudak is hardly going to help her
The de facto practice of being a politician is to not so subtly imply all manner of scandalous inanities about one’s opponents. When there is an actual underlying scandal, the shrill accusations from opponents tend to reach a fever pitch, and how an incumbent politician deals with the scandal breaking
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On natural selection
Shorter (or paraphrased) Lisa Thompson: People mention ‘Walkerton’ as if it were a bad thing. Don’t they understand the benefits of killing off the weak?
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
This and that for your weekend reading. – Michael McBane highlights one of the less-discussed changes in the Cons’ 2014 budget – as it officially eliminates the federal distribution of health care funding based on provincial need in favour of handing extra money to Alberta: The Harper government is eliminating
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Incredible Clown Convolutions of the Loser Tim Hudak
There's an old saying in Quebec, more Con or more stupid than that and you die.But it clearly doesn't apply in Ontario eh?Because if it did the loser Tim Hudak would be mummified by now. Instead of bouncing up and down like a Con clown.Read more »
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Political Opportunism Or Epiphany?
Well, the more cynical among us might suggest that Andrea Horwath no longer has a monopoly on political expediency in Ontario. More trusting souls, in this breaking story, might suggest a different causative factor. Young Tim Hudak, leader of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party, to borrow a phrase from his good
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Too Good Not To Share
This one’s for you, young Tim. H/t Union Thugs Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Another Provincial Concern
Aware of my interest in politics, my friend Gary sent me an email this morning:I read a comment in the National Post and it made me think of the label you use, “Young Tim”. The fellow in his comment asked the question “Have you ever heard of a Provincial Leader
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Incredible Dumbitude of the Loser Tim Hudak
I haven't write about Tim Hudak for a while because quite frankly I thought his Cons would have got rid of him by now. Since he is the best thing the Ontario Liberals and the NDP have going for them.And he is a real LOSER.But I see he has been calling
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: An Epidemic of Stupidity
Starting with Tim Hudak and then progressing stateside, this post will attempt to merely display the range of prodigious stupidity that North America seems to be cursed with. First, to young Tim. It seems that each time the beleaguered leader of Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives opens his mouth, one of his
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Niagara – Moderate PCs unhappy with radical right policies could send a message Thursday
Tomorrow two provincial by-elections are taking place in Niagara and Thornhill. Thornhill, the vacated seat of Peter Shurman, is expected to remain Tory blue despite criticism by the departing MPP of his former party. He recently described the Hudak Conservatives … Continue reading →
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: With Apologies, Another Post On Tim Hudak
I have to admit that I grow increasingly tired of and bored with young Tim Hudak, the boy who would be Ontario’s next premier. Yet because his duplicitous tactics and rhetoric provide such a window into the sordid world of Conservative politics, sometimes I just hold my nose and plod
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