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The day after Ford is set to be sworn in as the 26th Premier of Ontario, an anti-Ford group is expected to march on Queen’s Park to protest what it says are key issues with his agenda.
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According to the Facebook event page, organizers of the rally will also be calling for a change to a proportional representation voting system, saying “it is unacceptable for a party that won 41 per cent of the popular vote to win 60 per cent of the seats.”
Heck, the Federal Liberals won with less popular support than the PCs. Where is the outrage over that outcome?
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6 minutes ago, H10 said:
That is delusional, there had been a minimum wage freeze in place for a very long time, it should have been rising 50 cents a year to keep place with inflation from 10 years ago, by 2020, we are going to need a $20 minimum wage to just keep pace with the Ford cluster mess.
Or how about we raise taxes on the wealthy and elite who hardly pay any taxes, what about scotiabank making $2 billion but claiming nothing coming tax time? Ford will be a 1 term premier if his own party doesn't boot him. He will not survive because he has conflicting claims. He won't raise taxes on the rich who have increasingly been using tax evasion schemes to avoid paying their obligations. If he freezes the wage at $14 an hour, he is finished, because his dumb suppporters with low iq earning minimum wage will learn he duped them. They were just so rash in their anti wynne sentiment they forgot to vote their nterest. O well.
Yes Andrea. Anything you say, Andrea.
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Questions are being raised whether in private talks, Trump and Trudeau agreed there would be no sunset clause on NAFTA. Here's a question in the House from yesterday. Trudeau won't answer the question directly.
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1 hour ago, betsy said:
The Feds should open up Supply Management for negotiations. It's not doing us any good anyway.
At this point, I'm not sure the Feds have enough talent to negotiate anything with regard to trade. They can't even engage Provinces to talk about facilitating free trade across provincial boundaries.
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Former prime minister Brian Mulroney predicts Donald Trump's unprecedented diatribe against Justin Trudeau is a passing storm.
Mulroney, who has a personal relationship with Trump and has been quietly advising the prime minister on how to deal with the mercurial U.S. president, likened Trump's weekend tirade to "serious summer squalls."
"They come upon you abruptly and they dissipate just as quickly," he said Monday.
"I think it's serious but because it's serious doesn't mean it's lethal."
Question is, was Trudeau listening to Mulroney's advise.
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1 hour ago, BubberMiley said:
I'm honestly at a loss to figure it out.
No you're not. You're just being your usual contrarian, Conservative hating self.
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27 minutes ago, Centerpiece said:
Trump is a tough act to deal with
It makes one wonder whether anyone on the Trudeau team was astute enough to read Trump. Only then would they have been able to advise Trudeau properly going into the G7 summit, and how to react to Trump's actions and words.
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40 minutes ago, Centerpiece said:
All it takes is a diplomatic delivery of the message - and perhaps a bit of nuance. Is there anyone who things Trudeau is doing a good job?
Excellent point. Trudeau is no diplomat, and neither is Trump. Both should take training in this field.
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6 minutes ago, betsy said:
Big deal that Trump made a "chest-beating" farewell press conference. Trump didn't say anything we have not heard before, either!
Trudeau should've just ignored it at that. he shouldn't have reacted at all! he should've just looked at the bigger picture.
The truth of it all........Trudeau couldn't stop his big mouth from running.
Another indicator that Trudeau was playing to his base at home to shore up support. "Look how patriotic I am."
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The hits on Canada have just begun.
QuoteThe Canadian dollar fell against all its major peers after U.S. President Donald Trump revoked his support for a joint Group-of-Seven statement and criticized his neighboring leader Justin Trudeau.
The U.S. dollar was steady as investors awaited a series of major risk events this week, including a summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore on Tuesday and meetings of the world’s three-biggest central banks on following days. The Japanese yen halted a two-day winning streak.
“The Canadian dollar is facing selling pressures as the G-7 summit reinforced the confrontation between Canada and the U.S., particularly concerns about U.S. targeting automobile sector which is a huge blow for Canada,” said Ko Haruki, head of the financial solutions group at CIBC World Markets (Japan) in Tokyo. “CAD is also weighed by fundamentals after a weak employment report last week.”
Is our federal government up to the job of fixing this? And what of Doug Ford? The incoming PC government is coming in at the very precarious time with much on their plate. I wish them every success in their handling of this looming catastrophe.
I have a feeling things will get very bad for us economically. Our government must put aside their partisan and self serving ways and take drastic measures, for exampls getting rid of supply management even if it means losing a few votes in Quebec.
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On 6/9/2018 at 6:11 PM, scribblet said:
maybe they will persuade the Green guy to cross the floor.
QuoteOntario Green Party leader and newly-elected Guelph MPP Mike Schreiner denied a media report Sunday he is considering joining the seven-member Liberal caucus at Queen’s Park to give it official party status.
“To be very clear, I am a Green MPP and will not be part of a coalition with another party” Schreiner tweeted in response to a report he was considering “joining forces” with the Liberals.
Schreiner said he is “open to cooperation with any party in the Legislature” but “cooperation not does equal coalition. I am reaching out to all parties at Queen’s Park this week.”
That takes care of that. Wynne just can't catch a break. So sad....NOT.
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19 hours ago, Argus said:
The number used to be 12, not 8. Mike Harris agreed to lower it for the NDP, I believe, and justified it because he had lowered the number of MPPs. But now we've raised the number of MPPs beyond what it was before, so really, the number for official party status ought to be raised back to 12 or 14.
Seats increased from 107 to 124, that is by 17. If the threshold for party status is raised above 8, would 12 to 14 seats not seem excessive?
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Overwhelmingly, public comments to media articles say NO to accommodating the Liberals in this case. I suppose the PCs are gleaning these articles and comments to see where Ontarians sit on this matter.
Some interesting views presented here. It makes me reflect on my initial opinion.
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The Ontario Liberals lost party status because they won only 7 seats in the election. They needed 8 to maintain official status in the Legislature.
QuoteOntario’s outgoing Liberals made a pitch to hold on to official party status Friday as they entered a period of extreme uncertainty in the wake of an election that took them from a majority government to a mere seven seats.
Kathleen Wynne, who stepped down as Liberal leader after the party’s dramatic downfall, said she hopes premier-designate Doug Ford will change the rules to grant the designation, which currently requires eight seats in the legislature.
“I think it’s important,” she said. “I hope that Mr. Ford will agree.”
Ford only said he would talk to his team about the issue in the days and weeks to come.
Being a recognized party in the legislature allows parties to have an office for their leader and access resources such as research assistance, but the threshold required for the designation can be changed by legislators, as has been in the past.
http://www.680news.com/2018/06/08/losing-official-party-status-mean-liberals/
Should the PCs grant the Ontario Liberals official status party?
My sense is that they should. Ford has said he would be the Premier of all Ontarians, including those that did not vote PC. So here is an opportunity to show he is serious about this pledge. This would, to some extent, silence his critics that he and his party are divisive and polarizing.
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19 minutes ago, Centerpiece said:
This morning's Star had the usual gripe that 60% of voters voted for the "progressive" options
The PCs had a higher popular vote count than Trudeau, the darling of the Star. PCs received 40.64% of the popular vote to Trudeau's 39.5% in 2015. An inconvenient truth.
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There, there. Would you like a soother?
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14 hours ago, OftenWrong said:
no time to explain his vision as newly appointed leader of the PC Party, let alone what he will do as Premier, and how he intends to do it. He hasn't even had time to think about it himself.
On the bright side, if Ford wins a majority, he will surround himself by competent people. Having watched them in action I have a good inkling of where those people stand on various issues.There is nothing radical about them and I believe they will govern from the centre.
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36 minutes ago, OftenWrong said:
Starting tomorrow, Ontarians venture into completed uncharted territory, adrift, ithout a plan and with no direction. And they will do it BY MAJORITY.
Just because a political party has a plan/platform doesn't ensure the province has direction. There have been many instances where governments have set aside their plans or were unable to deliver for various reasons. Some never intended to implement those promises in the first place. Proof is look at the Federal Liberals.
In Ontario's case, a majority PC win is necessary to avert a NDP/Liberal coalition and to negate uncertainty. It looks to me like this is where we are headed. I for one would be more than pleased with that outcome.
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The final Ipsos poll of the campaign, conducted between June 3 and 5, points to a three-point Progressive Conservative lead province-wide and a double-digit lead in the 905. That’s majority territory for Ford, who has seemingly emerged unscathed from two days of high-profile family drama centering around a lawsuit launched by his sister-in-law.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4256612/ontario-election-ipsos-poll-doug-ford-pc-majority/
In the end, I think voters are looking not only at the leader, but the team that comes with them and what their cabinet would look like.
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9 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:
Looks like 4 more years of the paranoid rage machine from this idiot.
And looks like 4 years of you name calling against Doug Ford.
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2 hours ago, PIK said:
So you do mind him wesaring a sextist tee shirt while out with his mother. I have posted that one. CU CREWBANGER. So she is either a idiot for letting him wear it or just as stupid for not knowing.
He can wear any tee shirt he wants or no tee shirt at all. I don't care. What I care about are Horwath's policies. Others may react differently. That's their prerogative.
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12 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:
Here's some background on Deco:
The basic inability to prioritize, organize and set up a plan is something that should raise alarm bells here.
I doubt the average voter will research information on Deco. In any case, the financial state of Deco as reported in the MSM and the pending lawsuit won't make a difference in the final outcome of the vote.
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I don't care what the politicians' kids look like or their tattoos and hairdos. It's the actions and policies of politicians that I examine.
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How come Renata Ford was not named trustee of Rob Ford's estate? Don't couples who have faith in each other normally name each other trustee in the event of the death of the other?
Doug Ford - leader of Ontario PCs
in Provincial Politics in Canada
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Renata was left the family home. She went through a good chunk of change in 2 years with her re-mortgaging the family home. What did she do with that money? My nose tells me it's not hard to figure out. Perhaps there are relatives that want to safeguard the future financial well being of the kids.