To Go.
As in Tim Hudak’s promise to create One Million New Jobs for Ontarians should he be elected on June 12th.
Never a policy, more of a hope, the one million job figure seemed more of a creation within Tim’s mind.
But now, with his pledge this week to cut 100,000 public service jobs, he will have to find 1,100,000 new ones in order to attain his wish.
Funny way to create jobs if you asked me.
Not that something drastic needs does not need to be done to get government spending under control but to purposely frighten public service workers with elimination, on the eve of election day, is not, dear reader, the stuff of getting elected.
It comes under the heading - snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Have you noticed, there is something about Tiny Tim that seems to relish in defeat; I once had a baseball coach like that … he was happiest when we lost, but that story is for another time.
On the day of his 100,000 job cut announcement, a major employer, just outside of Toronto, announced it was leaving Ontario and gave as the reason, Ontario’s punitive laws and regulations. It cast the Provincial Liberals in very poor light.
And this, at a time, when Wynne was reeling from her disastrous Budget’s plan to create a made in Ontario Pension Plan. Not only is it unnecessary, but it will cost employers and employees dearly and will accelerate the loss of jobs for a Province already haemorrhaging them.
Now Tiny Tim has changed the channel and made himself the object of derision.
It is enough to make hard nosed Tories like myself weep.
I do not know who is advising Hudak but there is something desperately wrong.
The last Election saw the worst Tory Campaign I can recall and now they seem to be trying to outdo that dismal performance.
So if I was on board as an Advisor to Hudak here is what I would tell him to do:
First – promise to cancel the entire Green Energy Program. It is the main reason Ontario has fallen into Have-Not Status.
Second – I would assure businesses and citizens alike that their power rates will be dramatically reduced. Water Power, Gas Power and Nuclear will be used exclusively and if need be, we will buy power at cheap rates from Quebec and Manitoba.
Third, I would drop the plan for 100,000 red slips and announce instead a freeze on hiring in the public service along with a freeze in pay and benefits until parity has been reached with the private sector. This would apply to MPPs and their Staff as well.
Fourth, I would promise a review upon being elected of all Boards and Commissions with to the objective being to eliminate all those which are redundant and or unnecessary.
Fifth, and for good measure, I would promise to establish a judicial inquiry into the Gas Plant Scandal with the objective to see those who did wrong – punished.
To go beyond those 5 items will only court trouble and besides, with those 5 plus all the ammunition the Grits have given Hudak and company over the last 11 years – there will be plenty to talk about in the Hustings.
As I see it…
‘K.D. Galagher’
