Here is another one for you -
Democrat Kathleen Wynne
She just called 5 by-elections on less than a month’s notice – in the summer – at the beginning of the busiest holiday weekend of the year.
Do you suppose she did this because:
a) they are all Grit Ridings and as such a quick election call would hinder the other parties from organizing? or,
b) a summer election – especially one tied to a busy holiday weekend would encourage a smaller turnout in the knowledge that bigger turnouts often signal a protest vote? or,
c) the teachers are off for the summer and thus available to work on the Grit Campaigns? or,
d) all of the above.
If you chose (d) you get full marks.
No one though can accuse Dear Ms. Wynne of being a slow learner.
She has watched her previous master shut down the Ontario Legislature to allow their Liberal Party time to elect a new leader …the one and only Kathleen Wynne.
Moreover, the same Dalton McGuinty just recently called a snap Nomination Meeting in his riding, with under a week’s notice, to ensure victory for his long time aide John Fraser.
No democracy for these folks …it is just too messy and of course dangerous.
What we need is a Tahrir style occupation by the beleaguered taxpayers / voters of Queen’s Park since I believe it will take such an event to shock some of these politicians back to reality.
We have the worst government in Canadian History – except possibly for the Duplessis years in Quebec - and Wynne and McGuinty continue to carry on business as if we are all just dummies there to do their bidding.
It’s pathetic and if the stakes were not so high, it would all be quite comical.
But the stakes are high as our once great province continues to sink lower into have-not status.
As I see it …
‘K.D. Galagher’