Ontario Liberals Should Pull the Plug on Dalton Mc-Liar...Now!

Maybe Mc-Moron is contemplating how 9 years in office have passed so quickly

and yet he seems to have nothing to show for it.....other then a good pay cheque

I find it quite sad really that on the 11th anniversary of the Terrorist attacks against the US, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty chose to go ahead and push through legislation that imposes a 2 year ban on teacher strikes and a 2 year wage freeze, along with numerous other things that the Liberals feel will help them cut their self-created massive deficit. They picked today of all days to enact their own brand of terrorism on our teachers and their rights. Anyone tells you something different, then all you have to do is realize they have been in power for 9 years so they in fact DID create their own mess in that time and are now looking to find a quick and easy scapegoat to their problem and why not blame a group of people who have had the audacity to fight for their rights for over a century.

For a man who has been in charge of Ontario's parliament and our finances for most of this century, any kind of insinuation that everyone else needs to tighten their belt to fix the problems he and his Liberal cronies created is both unfair and incredibly telling of just how poor a leader he really is. The Premier and his staff have been in power for 9 years. His own wife is a unionized teacher and yet he has chosen to illegally take away their rights to collectively bargain their contract with school boards, focusing (unfairly) on the front line staff and their pay structures instead of looking at the salaries of the school board trustees, their asinine hiring practices for new teachers and how they give out Long Term Occasional teaching contracts, and even their very own salaries as members of provincial parliament instead.

Ontario has a $14.8 Billion budget shortfall on its hands this year, down from $19.8 Billion from 2010 when the economic collapse first occurred, but still a massive shortfall. When Dalton took office, Ontario's total debt was at $138.8 Billion. It is projected to top $266.5 Billion by the end of this fiscal year (Total Ontario Debt) which means that in 9 years in office, Dalton has been spending like a drunken sailor and now that he (finally) is starting to see that they don't have enough money to cover their debts, he opts to go after people who have had to fight for every penny they earn by taking away their rights as citizens.

He claims that by imposing all these restrictions on teachers (who are just the first in a series of public servants who will be under attack by this pathetic government), the Government will save $473 million over the next 2 years. What he seems to forget is that when this case goes to the Supreme Court of Ontario, he and his government will lose and their legislation will not only be repealed but the government will lose more money defending a poorly conceived of Bill. Hundreds of millions in compensation to those teachers and even more in legal fees.

At the same time, back on Remembrance Day last year, Dalton quietly announced MPP pay INCREASES ranging from $16,000 to $49000 per MPP, pushing the average (AVERAGE?!?!?!) salary of an Ontario Member of Provincial Parliament into the $110,000 per year range (Actual Pay Increases - 2010). This represents a pay increase to every member of the provincial government and people who work at Queens' Park of between 16-42%. These are people who DON'T need a pay increase. His rationale (and that of that moron Tim Hudak, who enthusiastically endorsed this concept) was that MPP's need to be paid on an equal basis as that of their Federal counterparts. So while he goes after the pay of teachers and tries to take away things that they have had to fight for over the course of years of collective bargaining, he gives himself and other members of provincial parliament pay raises in the range of $1.7 - $5.4 million a year in total.

This guy should have been able to whip McMoron in the polls just by sticking to the facts

yet somehow he lost because he just is not a charismatic or transformational leader

The worst part to me is the fact that these 107 selfish pricks that WE elected, don't have a problem taking tax payer money and putting it into their own pockets while at the same time reaching into the pockets of the poorest people in the province, those on social assistance, and literally stealing from those who have the least. Since 1994, when social assistance was giving out an average of $663 a month to a single person in need, the social assistance program has been hit by funding cuts. As of December 2011, that same single person on social assistance was now receiving only $599 a month, or a total cut back of about 10% (MPP Pay Raises - 2011). That same article I used as a source, also mentioned that the average salary of Cabinet Ministers within the Government has risen and is now up to $157,000 or nearly $31,000 MORE then what they were only 2 years ago.

These people have no problem going after teachers and their hard earned pay including putting in place illegal pay freezes on them yet gladly accept pay increases in the five figure range without even blinking. And this is from not just the Governing Liberals as the Conservatives and NDP also were all for approving their pay increases with some trying to win more voters by claiming that they would donate the extra pay to charity. Has anyone heard of any single MPP make a sizable charitable contribution with this extra pay in the last 2 years? Didn't think so.

Even with all of this mounting evidence in favour of getting rid of Dalton, his replacements in waiting are clearly no better as they agreed with giving themselves pay raises. Tim Hudak and Andrea Horwath (although she didn't exactly agree with their pay hike) are simply another side of the same box in terms of political ideology. We need a NEW way of thinking and fresh ideas that don't start with cutting the salaries of the people who educate our kids and make their futures brighter by helping them learn the basics. We need innovators who will look at problems from a different angle and realize that "We are all in this together" (as former President Clinton expressed in his speech last week at the Democratic National Convention) and try to fix the root cause of the problem instead of focusing on the cosmetic fixes that will give them some positive press.

As much as these three like to state that they are different from each other, they really are not

We don't need leaders like this, we DESERVE better!

Getting rid of Dalton as Premier of Ontario is a necessary first step, which could happen as early as this next Liberal Leadership Review scheduled for September 28th, but clearly his two main adversaries are not ready, willing or able to be the leaders that we need as they are cast in the same model as all of our past leaders and there isn't a single member of the Provincial Liberal Party which appears ready to step in and do what is necessary to lead the Province back to where it should be. As the most heavily populated province in the country, with the largest tax base and most educated workforce, Ontario should be the economic engine that drives this country yet it has been surpassed by Alberta and BC.


We need leaders who are willing to lead by example. At times when we are all expected to tighten our belts, we need leaders who tell all of us that they will be the first ones to cut their own pay in an effort to help, not increase it as a way of telling us all that they care more for themselves and what they can get out of their roles then. We don't leaders who tell us to do as they say and not as they do. We need people in charge who are not selfish and arrogant about their position in life but rather are willing to sacrifice of themselves for the greater good of all. We don't have that right now and its doubtful we will have that in the foreseeable future.

Even leaders that we believe will bring about enormous change (and actually DO make significant changes to our society, like those made by Barack Obama) are villainized and made demonized by his opponents who can't even seem to agree upon the actual real, stated facts regarding different issues, instead using the commonly used idea that the louder they yell about how bad he is, the worse the perceived perception of him is in the media that we can create, the more likely we are to drown out all the good that this transformational leader will seem to be to the general public when it comes time to vote.

We haven't had a visionary in charge of this province since Bill Davis. We haven't had a transformational Prime Minister in charge of this country since Pierre Trudeau. What we have had are place holder leaders, men and women in charge who have done an adequate job but could never seem to lead us for anything more then a short period of prosperity before the "bad times" return. PM Harper has a chance to become that kind of historical reference as Prime Minister. Unfortunately it is only after he is gone and left office that people will look back, as they do now with Trudeau, and realize that he was the right leader at the right time to help guide this nation towards greatness.

One of these 2 has a chance to have a REAL Legacy

HINT: It's not the guy on the left....

The same will one day be said of President Obama. We will look back on his first 4 years in office and marvel at how he was able to not only survive but do so much in so little time. With Dalton, and his 9 years in office, the prevailing sentiment (already) is WTF has he done to make our lives better? Nothing. He has raised the debt of the province by doubling it during his tenure. He has improved education funding which is great, but now he has antagonized teachers to the point where all of his "good" work in that field (which, again was nothing transformational, he just threw money at the issue and hoped for the best) is now lost.

Dalton has ruined the finances of this province so much so that we are now at a point where he is destroying his own "legacy" by attacking alliances he had previously spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars solidifying. As I have been saying for years, we don't need a leader like this in charge of this once prosperous province, we need a new kind of leader. It's just a shame that we don't have a leader like this ready to fix this province and we are instead saddled with a man who has had 9 years to implement his vision of Ontario on all of us and what we have are more problems and more debt then when he began.

Nice legacy.