Dear Ontario…
May 7, 2006 · By Peter Rempel
Do you know what this means? It means essentially that we don’t need you anymore to form the government.
Enjoy your decade in the opposition, shmucks.
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My, but it’s been busy over at The Politic lately, as: Pete tells Ontario tofuck off. Holden thinks it’s just a ducky idea for all those greasy wetbacks to learn English. After all, it would speed things up when you’re trying to get across that you’d like extra towels and a couple more of those little shampoos in the bathroom and,
And you call the Liberls arrogant! lol Just don’t bitch when the Liberals get back into power and “NEP: the Sequel” comes your way.
Alberta Sucks – instead of hurling insults about things which you obviously have no knowledge, why don’t you put a little hutzpha with that comment and tell me just why you think the NEP should come back into power. Lets have a real debate with facts. However, I would doubt that you really know anything about the NEP or for that matter, Alberta. It just shows your ignorance.
Kind of agree with Alberta Girl but there is a second Whoa – Wait a Minute! here.
Not sure I would agree with The Politic that we don’t need Ontario. Last time I checked some 40 Conservative MP’s and the Min of Finance come from Ontario. Exchanging them for 30 to 40 more seats in Quebec doesn’t help Mr. Harper very much.
Now Toronto, well thats a different story. It will be interesting to see if good old T.O. keeps voting Liberal in the next General Election. My guess, Gains for both the NDP and Conservatives. We’ll see.
Yeah because those 40 + Tory MP’s from Ontario are just a bunch of schmucks too, right?
This attitude of Political regionalism you’ve got going on is pretty interesting.
If ANY government in Canada wants to be truly representative it must have significant representation in ALL provinces… This numbers game your playing is not conducive with Federalism, and saying FUCK YOU to Ontario certainly isn’t going to win the Tories any support in Toronto.
Will, if you want regionalism politics you would be advised to examine the elections that the LIBERALS won.
Come, now – how is this any different from “Alberta can blow me?”
I just resent being told to screw off because I’m from Ontario.
I’m a Tory, not a Liberal… and I have never said “Alberta can blow me” or anything like remotely like that.
Ontario does have strong Liberal support, but it also has fairly strong Conservative support OUTSIDE of Toronto, Alberta on the other hand is seemingly entirely Tory supported.
I just don’t like this childish “Nah nah, we don’t need you anymore!” that comes from the Liberals in regard to Alberta, and apparently the Tories in regard to Ontario.
Can’t we all just get along?!
Actually, I should have added to my post above, that I thought thepolitic was a little tough on Ontario, after all, this is exactly the kind of provincial discrimination that we in Alberta feel.
I think we need all provinces to have a balanced government in Ottawa, so to say that we don’t need Ontario is not true.
Alberta sucks – I am STILL waiting for the debate on the NEP – sigh – thought not. It is easy to just say things on blogs without putting any facts behind your comments. It is interesting that your name is Alberta sucks, which proves my discrimination point.
Harper will implode next election. Canadians hate arrogant leaders, hence the ditching of martin,campbell,mulroney and all of the dithering idiots before him.
Harper is not a conservative, he’s a reform-alliance schmuck that stole a colour to wear, as his own party was over the edge and couldn’t win a seat anywhere but in the land of redneckism.
His anti-canadian comments over the years will take him down.
Hmmmm, perhaps Canadians now realize what a sad and sorrowful destination Harper is sending us to.
jim b – Harper is not a conservative, he’s a reform-alliance schmuck that stole a colour to wear, as his own party was over the edge and couldn’t win a seat anywhere but in the land of redneckism.
His anti-canadian comments over the years will take him down.
Hmmmm, perhaps Canadians now realize what a sad and sorrowful destination Harper is sending us to.
Once again – comments with no facts to back them up. What anti Canadian comments???? Please -name one jimmy.
Still nothing on the Budget, eh?
Toronto ia a bastion of socialism and deserves to be ignored.
Harper ia a conservative, just not a PC conservative, or limp wristed Liberal prop like Joe Who’s conservatives.
Next up, Majority Conservative Government and intelligent plans for Canada.
And Stephen’s been saying nasty things about Dalton…
8==^(
The Toronto Star says so; so it must be true.
This anti-Ontario charge is manufactured by the media. Harper worked with McGuinty on the softwood lumber deal, and would not have signed it if McGuinty was not on side.
I think Harper has set a trap for the Federal Liberals, and they have all run into it. The Liberal leadership contest has revealed the true Liberal Party of Toronto and now the Liberals are picking Toronto/Ontario over Canada. The Liberals are making a strategic blunder that will further alienate them in Quebec and Western Canada. They will be reduced to a rump in the next election, holding onto Toronto which is becoming the Liberals Alberta ie. they can elect tweedle dee & tweedle dumb there. The rest of Ontario (ie 905) will join the Conservatives, as they like what they see from Harper so far. We are watching the Liberals dig themselves into a hole they will not get out of in years.
I fully agree with Peter – who needs Ontario. It’s a cesspool of crime and socialism. Besides, it’s all their own fault. They have marginalized themselves and set themselves on a course to self-destruction. I think all Peter’s saying is that no one in the rest of Canada, especially Alberta, will shed a tear over Ontario’s demise.
Jim B.
(inhales)… wow man. that IS good stuff you are smoking. Dang, it’s so good I am thinking my mother is a Nazi out to send all her children without blonde hair to concentration camps…
Let’s remember the equalization payments, Ontario has been paying more than it’s fair share for years, and now we are left with: our students pay more in tuition fees, the highest in Canada, we have one of the highest wait times in hospitals etc., etc., etc.,. It’s time Alberta put more than it two cents worth into the Canadian economy, or maybe Ontario should separate. It works for Quebec, they are able to hold every govenment hostage with that threat.
Alberta contributes a $hit load more per capita than Ontario does. Key words: per capita. True, there are more folks in “Tranna” paying taxes than in Calgary, but we are paying MORE PER PERSON.
I usually hear the same comments from those that think the reduction in the GST is “only” one percent. Actually it’s 14.28%, soon to be a 28.57% reduction, not “only” one and two percent. Gee whiz, who’d-a-thunk us knuckle draggin’ rednecks were better at ‘rithmatic than the fancy pants latte crowd form Daltonland!
The last time I checked, the Conservative Party was a national party that wanted representation from every province. Not “needing” Ontario is a pretty far stretch Peter.
Btw, Betty. Nova Scotia pays the highest rates in tuition, check your stats.
I live in Ontario and would like to see the socialist stench removed from this province, however its presence is solidly entrenched in Toronto and I really don’t have any idea how to remove it. At least shortly, hopefully we can at least get rid of Dipstick Dalton.
BC sent 17 Conservatives to parliament out of 36 seats. Ontario did 40 out of 103. BC voted 37% Tory, Ontario 35%, while Canadians as a whole voted 36% Tory.
Here is your homework:
1) Find the 35 ridings in Canada where the Tories finished second by the least margin last election. Almost none of them are in Quebec and probably over half of them are in Ontario. While much is made of the fact that the Tories finished second in 40 Que. ridings, in virtually all cases they finished well back. When you see some clown claiming that the Tories can pick up anything more than 20 seats in Quebec, ask said clown to name the ridings.
OK, I’m a nice guy and I’ll help with your homework: here are some ridings the Tories need to focus on next election:
BC
Burnaby-Douglas
Burnaby-New West
Esquimalt-JDF
Newton North Delta
Richmond
Van Island North
West Van Sunshine
Sask
Desnethe-Miss-Churchill River
Man
St. Boniface
Ont
Brampton West
Brant
Huron Bruce
Kenora
London N. Centre
London West
London Fanshawe
Miss Erindale
Miss South
Newmarket Aurora
Nipissing –Timiskaming
Oakville
Ottawa South
Ottawa Vanier
NS
West Nova
NB
St. John
Madawaska-Restigouche
Fredricton
Nfld
Bonavista-Gander-Grand Falls-Windsor
Random-Burin-St. George’s
Que.
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Finally, an intelligent post on this topic. Thank you Bob.
I love the posts that argure that the Liberals are down and out, and don’t really have to be worried about for a while yet. To go from a slim majority government down to 100 seats, only a loss of about 60 seats, is not the sign of a dead party, thats the sign of a responsable electorate. Only twice in Canada’s history has their been a “dead party” – and both times they were conservitives. The first was back in 1935 when they lost to King and didn’t get back in until 1957 (after, I might add, they merged with another party to become the “Prgressive Conservitive Party”). The second was in 1993 when they went from a majority government to 2 seats, and didn’t get back in until they also merged with another party. So don’t say that the liberals are “out of it”. Once they actually get a coherent leader thats capable of running the party, they’ll actually become a good oposition. Then We’ll see what the polls have to say.
Oh and to all of you calling Ontario a socialist province. Get you definitions stright, they are liberal and progressive. But those two things do not mean socialist. If they were socialist there would be no low income housing problems, no tuition fees and no healthcare crisis. So get you definations stright when you use a loaded term like that. And don’t insult us socialists by calling Ontario one.
I feel we are to much like America. Except for the United part. As a country we lack and watch our country come in 3rd and 4th in the world race. As people we should be the leaders and reinvent Canada for a better future.How you ask?
Reforming our government for 1. Allow all prime leaders to have imput and govern as a minority.
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alberta is the worst thing in canada. I cant wait to move back. its so sad how its such a rich province and it milks its residents so much… they even have to pay for health care….. never coming back to this depressing place.
Ontario and Alberta don’t get along so well because they don`t have the same values. Ontario is full of self-centered pigs who think they own Canada and Alberta is full of oil, cattle and agriculture (better and cleaner than Ontario`s) , you pick which is better…
I think Toronto`s gay communities are great