I have many reasons for voting against the McGuinty Liberals on October 10. Here are a few of them.
Obviously, my number one reason is that they legislated every dog owner in this province into second-class status because a vain, pompous, self-serving Liberal wanted to look like the Big Man on Campus.
Bzzzzt! Wrong! He just looks like a vain, pompous and self-serving media chaser to me, one who has no qualms about perverting the right to a fair trial and the right to presumption of innocence in the absence of wrongdoing. What's more, he had no hesitation in legislating discrimination against an identifiable minority, then burdening others with cleaning up the mess he created.
Another reason is that everything they have handled has been hopelessly mishandled. Be it the OMERS fund, the Green Belt, sushi, power generation, dog owner controls, lotteries and gaming, adoption confidentiality, sharia law, clean water, standardized testing, and more, Liberal half-baked, supposed 'quick-fix', shoot-from-the-lip ideas have made me feel like telling them to Flick Off. And I'm not alone.
Corruption seems to be the hallmark of this government. Under-the-table grants, election promises broken after taking office, internal scandals in ministries and Crown corporations, sock puppet websites, you name it, the Fibs have done it.
I'm less than impressed with the recent vote-buying spree disguised as 'governing' and I'm hoping many others feel the same way. It is an insult to the intelligence of the Ontario electorate, one which nicely illustrates the regard in which the Liberals hold the citizens of the province.
Individual cabinet ministers are nothing less than an embarrassment. Environment, Agriculture, Health, Education, Attorney General, Citizenship and Immigration (which we don't need, since that is a Federal concern) stand out as particularly shallow and incompetent, but there are more. Why is the former Minister of Transportation still sitting in cabinet albeit in a different Ministry, when he was found to have violated parliamentary ethics? Under his watch over 60,000 driver's licence blanks went missing and people were getting licences with Costco cards as identification! Our Minister of Finance at least had the class to step aside while he was under investigation but he's back, in a big way. Why is Eleanor's little boy still heading up the Ministry which oversees Ontario Lottery and Gaming? Millions went astray with insider lottery wins yet he still sits in Cabinet.
I'm outraged by this government's use of style to replace substance. Specifically, they pretend to seek public input through Committee hearings, then disregard that input, vote the party line and go ahead with their inadequate plans anyway. If that's the intent, why waste taxpayers' time and money staging sham Committee hearings or doing expensive surveys?
The Liberal caucus members do not answer questions directly. Ever. They repeat party slogans and excerpts from the relentless stream of press releases which tout their supposed achievements in the face of abject failure, often in direct contradiction of the facts.
The Liberals like to whip the votes so that members have two options: leave the House before a vote or vote against the wishes of your constituents. They also like to have an abundance of parliamentary assistants - who then become part of Cabinet and must vote with the government.
Dalton McGuinty admits he broke promises - in other words, he lied to get elected last time. He says he's not lying now. That reminds of the old philosophy joke: "I'm a pathological liar but I'm not lying now" or "I'm a pathological liar and I'm lying right now". Same difference, you just can't trust the guy or his henchmen to tell it straight up. They certainly don't like to admit they may have been wrong about a decision, even when it's painfully obvious. Stonewall, obfuscate, deny - that's the McGuinty Liberal way.
McGuinty attended a fath-based school. His kids attend faith-based schools. His wife works at a faith-based school. But he's against faith-based schools. Typical Liberal hypocrisy and arrogance.
Incidentally, you can see by the big red 'A' on my right sidebar that I'm an atheist, as our family has been for many generations. Here's my opinion on faith-based schools:
While I would rather that no religious indoctrination of the young takes place in publicly funded schools, because religion is inherently divisive, if we are already funding the schools of one religion we must fund them all out of fairness.
In other words, fund them all or fund none of them. You can't have it both ways, even though many religions teach their followers that theirs is the only true religion and the rest are fakes. All religions are equally valid (or invalid if you prefer) but the magic word here is 'equal'.
As in 'equal treatment under the law', a basic principle of democracy which this government has shown itself to be more than willing to violate. Repeatedly.
Fiscal irresponsibility has reached new depths under Dalton McGuinty. I honestly believe he thinks it is his money, not ours. He seems to have a surplus, how convenient, just in time for pre-election spending to fool those who don't pay attention to what's going on on a daily basis. A surplus means you have been overtaxed. Now your overtaxation money is being given away to phantom cultural groups, promised to every Tom, Dick and Harry, thrown to the four winds, so that Dalton McGuinty can try, just try, to convince people that He Da Man.
Well, he isn't. And I for one won't be voting for the most unfit government in the history of Ontario on October 10.
How about you?
SEND THEM THE ONE MESSAGE THEY CAN'T IGNORE
REJECT THE McGUINTY LIBERALS ON OCTOBER 10
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