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Ontario: Yours To Discover!

May 20 2004

Counterbias.com

Cory M. Marshall

F O C U S O N C A N A D A

It must be that after a particularly conservative era a country, or a province, finds itself in ominous financial shape, and the transition to some presumably more humanistic regime tends to yield precisely just how ominous that shape is. In Ontario, the previous government managed to leave the 6.1 billion dollar deficit for the McGuinty government to first discover, then try to deal with. In any case, we are facing a severe penny pinching crisis yet, at the same time, the premier has committed to retaining the integrity and quality of public services.

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This is complete nonsense. It's also complete nonsense that the Left would love to have you believe.

The Mike Harris Conservatives transformed the economic landscape of the province. They reigned in huge deficits while also providing fundamental tax relief. The Ontario economy is still going strong.

Ernie Eves runs up ONE YEAR of a deficit - a year which saw all kinds of problems such as the blackout and SARS, and the left would have you believe that the Tories ran a mess with the books for eight years.

Don't believe it for one second.

Notice how Dalton Mcguinty didn't roll back any of the major Mike Harris tax cuts? If they were so bad, why leave them in there?

Mike Harris also INCREASED spending on health care and education at a time when transfer payments from Paul Martin were slashed in historical proportions.

If there is one thing I have noticed about the Left, it's that the whole truth never seems to be something they cherish or adhere to.

Just the other day the Star ran an editorial claiming that McGuinty didn't break his promises, he fulfilled his promise to health care and education.

Again, nonsense. It seems as though they will say and tell you anything to increase taxes and increase the size of the government. Its like a religion to them. And the rest of us have to obey, regardless of what they promise us or what they think of us during elections.

It's amazing.

And here we go again with the Leftist Hidden Agenda. They didn't tell us about it in that democratic entity most of the rest of us call elections, but we're going to be spending more and taxed more so that Dalton McGuinty and the Toronto Star can have even more control over our lives.

That's the way they want it.

The Toronto Star was irate at Mike Harris for keeping all his election promises.

That tells you everything you want to know - what the Left thinks of those nuisances otherwise known as the voters.

Extraordinary.

And you watch. Whenever the Left gets their hands on governemnt, people will spend more, the economy will slide, and they'll justify it by saying the social needs of Ontarians are being invested in, despite never having told us about this hidden agenda in the first place.

Complete nonsense.

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Does anybody remember the almost 12 billion dollar deficit the Harris gov. was left with ?

If not for sars,the blackout,increased spending on immigration and bilingualism,thanks to the federal liberals,Ontario would not now have a deficit .

Let's talk in four years and see where we stand as far as deficit amounts.You know most liberal gov run on deficits,so why is Dalton complaining anyway?

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Does anybody remember the almost 12 billion dollar deficit the Harris gov. was left with ? 

If not for sars,the blackout,increased

Shhhhhh. You're not supposed to mention that!

You're especially not supposed to mention that Harris actually increased funding to both health care and education during his time in office while the federal liberals were slashing their contribution year after year. You're not supposed to mention that health care spending has gone from consuming 32% of public program spending in Ontario to 43% in their last year, and now 46%. Soon it will be 50% then 55% then 60%, because you aren't allowed to consider any chances. The Unions will scream bloody murder if you try to cut back o their fat salaries and benefits, for example. I once saw an add for a cafeteria worker for a health care facility, no experience neccesary, starting at $20hr. Nurses make about $60,000 per year, and much of what they do is change sheets, change bedpans, take temperatures and pulses, wipe bottoms, etc. We could be paying people $10-$12hr for that, but noooo, the unions would all go on strike. And, of course, if you dare to suggest charging a minimum fee to discourage every idiot with the sniffles or a sore throat from going to the hospital or his doctor the people who think the Canada Health Act is the bible will scream bloody murder. Just spend more! More! More! More! That's the only answer the left has on health care spending.

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It cost the taxpayers of Ontario $12 billion to educate Bob Rae. He was determined to spend his way out of the problems facing the province. Toward the end of his term the NDP started to recognize the errors of their ways and Bob Rae started to reverse course. The Conservatives under Mike Harris had a huge mess to clean up and now the Liberals are gullible enough to blame the latest Ontario budget on the Conservatives ... Go figure!!!!!!

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