Ontario Liberals Tactics as Bad as Federal Conservatives

[madmax]

Short version

LPC government is incompetent and unable to handle the manufacturing crises.

http://netnewsledger.com/index.php?option=...5&Itemid=26

Queen’s Park - Ten months of work on a report that was supposed to assist Ontario’s hard-hit manufacturing sector has turned out to be much ado about nothing for the McGuinty Liberals, said NDP Leader Howard Hampton.

“There’s nothing here,” said NDP Leader Howard Hampton. “Seventy pages of fluff isn’t going to help the tens of thousands of manufacturing workers who have lost their jobs since Dalton McGuinty came to office. This so-called report is an insult to the workers who lost their jobs. It’s no wonder there were no photo-ops when this report came out,” said Hampton.

Shortly after the 2007 provincial election, backbench Liberal MPP David Ramsay was asked to write the report looking into the challenges and opportunities facing Ontario’s manufacturing sector. The report was hailed in the 2008 budget as proof of the government’s commitment to finding solutions to the manufacturing crisis that has now claimed more than 200,000 jobs across Ontario.

Under the cloak of a long summer weekend, the report mysteriously appeared late last Friday afternoon.

“The so-called strategy outlined in the report suggests that a marketing strategy is the solution to Ontario’s manufacturing woes.

We are doomed

Edited August 7, 2008 by madmax

[guyser]

We are doomed

Dalton and his gang are worse than the Ottawa gang. At least in Ottawa that gang has a clue. Queens park gang couldnt find a clue to save their life.

[jdobbin]

Short version

LPC government is incompetent and unable to handle the manufacturing crises.

Another example of stupid behaviour on the part of a government in releasing information when it is convenient for them.

[madmax]

Another example of stupid behaviour on the part of a government in releasing information when it is convenient for them.

Its this part I don't like

Shortly after the 2007 provincial election, backbench Liberal MPP David Ramsay was asked to write the report looking into the challenges and opportunities facing Ontario’s manufacturing sector.......only informed of the report’s internet availability through the freedom of information request process. The government did not send out media releases advertising the report’s completion, and no links to the report are available from government websites, including Mr. Ramsay’s.

Reminds me of that report that the Liberal Turned Conservative put out on the middle east crises.

[jdobbin]

Reminds me of that report that the Liberal Turned Conservative put out on the middle east crises.

I agree. It makes no sense to hire a sitting politician to do a report on their own government. It is a conflict from the start.

[Ontario Loyalist]

"government’s commitment to finding solutions to the manufacturing crisis"

Haven't seen anything that proves this to be the case. Ontario has lost a significant number of manufacturing jobs in the last year alone, but what have they been replaced with? Part-time/temp service industry jobs? Whatever the case, looking at job loss/job gain in a purely numerical fashion is not valid. When we lose certain kinds of jobs, we also end up losing a measure of self-sufficiency, self-reliance, and an aspect of our social character.