Ontario: Second-Rate Entertainment
October 7, 2007 · By Aaron Unruh
Now that the second-rate election has been pretty much decided, it’s time to begin looking to the entertainment value of the whole sordid mess. David Warren apparently feels the same way:
I live in one of those decaying urban ridings where voting for Tory Tories is anyway a waste of pencil lead. I will thus probably vote for my local NDP candidate, who struck me in passing on the street as quite possibly mentally and emotionally unstable, but a character all the same.
The lesson is clear: Vote for the strangest candidate you can find.
Ontario is racing to the bottom of the province pile. If there were Liberals in Ottawa too, we might have gotten there already, but the powerful of Ontario want to take a slow and steady dismantling of the economy in any case, that way the little people won’t be too shocked when they arrive.
Big public sector unions are big powerful winners in Liberal Ontario – everyone else loses.
“Big public sector unions are big powerful winners in Liberal Ontario – everyone else loses.”
Such a trite summary. It could apply equally to a “Red Tory” Ontario as well.
Why do you say “Liberal” Ontario???? There really is nothing much in the Red Tory platform which is very different in any practical manner.
With any kind of luck Ontario can become the Michigan of the North. A bankrupt, unionionised, corrupt entity that is the sewer pot of it’s country.
Let’s keep supporting liberalism.
“With any kind of luck Ontario can become the Michigan of the North. A bankrupt, unionionised, corrupt entity that is the sewer pot of it’s country.”
I always find it interesting that people hate Ontario enough to wish that they become a have not province. No one is asking you to give up your feelings of Western alienation, or love of region. But try to think before you wish something like that on the one of largest provinces in Canada, folks, because if things go poorly for Ontario, they will go poorly for every’s pocket books.
If they do become a have not province then they will become eligible for more transfer and equalization payments, which will piss people off even more, since their tax dollars will be spent elsewhere, and on an even larger chunk of Canada.
So, with any luck, all regions in Canada will become have provinces, and there will be no need for equalization.