With the Ontario election 50 days away, and the provincial Liberals trailing badly in the polls, Premier Kathleen Wynne did the inevitable: she played the Trump card. While making a health care announcement at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, the Liberal Premier compared PC leader Doug Ford to the US President. “Doug Ford sounds like...
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“I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” Those are the most terrifying words in the English language, according to the late US President Ronald Reagan – but then he never met Ontario Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne. In this week’s Throne Speech, Wynne promised not just to help – but to care. “Care...
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Premier should have postponed cap-and-trade until after next election If a psychologist put the Ontario Liberal government on the couch, he or she would diagnose a major case of denial. Three straight byelection losses, a sixteen-per-cent leader’s approval rating, a public debt nearing the $300 billion mark, and fury at skyrocketing hydroelectricity rates, and...
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A byelection is uncovering serious flaws in the Ontario PCs’ campaign game Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown can exhale now. Yesterday, voters in the Toronto provincial riding of Scarborough Rouge River handed PC candidate Raymond Cho a decisive victory in a byelection to replace outgoing Liberal MPP Bas Balkissoon. He won in spite...
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Sure, cash-for-access is legal. It still smells bad. “Washington is like a strip club,” former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee once said. “You’ve got people tossing dollars, and people doing the dance.” Huckabee was decrying the influence of money in American politics, but his words apply north of the border as well. And for once,...
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Is Quebec no longer the most corrupt province in Canada? That’s the question many Ontarians are asking themselves this week, after learning about the fundraising practices of the Ontario Liberal party. The Toronto Star recently reported that Liberal cabinet ministers were assigned secret “targets” of up to $500,000 by Bobby Walman, president and chief...
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