Chris Selley: Ontario Liberals table an NDP budget — so why not vote NDP instead?
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Repayment?
Granny Wynnes debt will still be a anvil around Ontario's neck long after you & your kids are gone
As long as Doug Ford's 30 year tax increase for one subway stop that doesn't exist?
All these desperate promises by a woman obsessed with staying in power. It’s just too much to stomach, tax increase after tax increase and she still doesn’t think she has enough of our money. Time to tell Wynne and the liberals to go fuck themselves. Enough is enough, I’m done with paying 53% of my income so she & Trudeau can squandered it all the while trying to shame us because we work hard and earn a good living. I put myself through university and law school, I made choices and paid for my kids daycare, my prescriptions etc. I didn’t rely on granny Wynne’s “free education” or “free everything” for everyone that will inevitably become more “stretch goals” aka lies.
As for Sousa, I knew of him when he worked at RBC, he was mediocre at best, what qualified him to be finance minister is inexplicable, and as you can all see is an abject failure. Fortunately for the liberals, Ontario is a province made up of the apathetic, the uninformed and the disengage who get their information from subway newspapers.
As for Sousa, I knew of him when he worked at RBC, he was mediocre at best, what qualified him to be finance minister is inexplicable, and as you can all see is an abject failure. Fortunately for the liberals, Ontario is a province made up of the apathetic, the uninformed and the disengage who get their information from subway newspapers.
Wow, so if Sousa has all these credentials and is still supposed to be "he worked at RBC, he was mediocre at best, what qualified him to be finance minister is inexplicable", so let's see how he qualified for that position:
Sousa grew up in Mississauga. He graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University in 1982 with a degree in Business Administration. In 1991, he completed a fellowship at the Institute of Canadian Bankers. He then earned an Executive MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario in 1994. He worked at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Financial Group for more than 20 years, primarily as Director Commercial Banking and Director Marketing RBC Dominion Securities. Prior to working with RBC, he owned and operated a factoring company that offered asset base financing to small businesses.
Sousa has been a member of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, a director with the United States Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Toronto Board of Trade. In 2003, he was appointed to represent Canada as a director to the International Chamber of Commerce. He is a past president of the Federation of Portuguese Canadian Business and Professionals Federation of Portuguese-Canadian Business & Professionals and member of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in Toronto (EUCOCIT). He was also an ambassador for the Credit Valley Hospital Foundation and an honorary chair of the Rainbow Ball Foundation.
In 2003, Sousa received a Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal in recognition of his service to the community. In 2009, he was inducted as a Commander (Comendador) to the Order of Merit (Portugal), and in 2012 he received the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal. In 2015, Sousa was also ranked as nobleman to the Confraria Port Wines. He lives in Clarkson with his wife Zenaida and their three children.
Whereas, Doug Ford has no University Degree and talked about "stopping the funding of the CBC", and that makes him fantastic for running the province. I get the right wing logic!!
Sousa grew up in Mississauga. He graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University in 1982 with a degree in Business Administration. In 1991, he completed a fellowship at the Institute of Canadian Bankers. He then earned an Executive MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario in 1994. He worked at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Financial Group for more than 20 years, primarily as Director Commercial Banking and Director Marketing RBC Dominion Securities. Prior to working with RBC, he owned and operated a factoring company that offered asset base financing to small businesses.
Sousa has been a member of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, a director with the United States Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Toronto Board of Trade. In 2003, he was appointed to represent Canada as a director to the International Chamber of Commerce. He is a past president of the Federation of Portuguese Canadian Business and Professionals Federation of Portuguese-Canadian Business & Professionals and member of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in Toronto (EUCOCIT). He was also an ambassador for the Credit Valley Hospital Foundation and an honorary chair of the Rainbow Ball Foundation.
In 2003, Sousa received a Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal in recognition of his service to the community. In 2009, he was inducted as a Commander (Comendador) to the Order of Merit (Portugal), and in 2012 he received the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal. In 2015, Sousa was also ranked as nobleman to the Confraria Port Wines. He lives in Clarkson with his wife Zenaida and their three children.
Whereas, Doug Ford has no University Degree and talked about "stopping the funding of the CBC", and that makes him fantastic for running the province. I get the right wing logic!!
Easy answer: in abstract I would say that because we have a first-past-the-post voting system, voting for the NDP is like forfeiting your vote. They won't win, so why vote for them at all? It's akin to flushing your voting rights down the toilet, and that's sad - regardless how you feel about the NDP in general. Our voting system is bullshit.
Wynnes debt is already in place. That is factual & not dependent upon any policy Doug Ford may propose wrt public transit.
Since you are slow witted I will translate for you
hopefully one day you will realize that $300 B in debt will not just disappear because you mention Doug Ford's name
With all those credentials he should be doing better at his current job!! If you took the liberals blinders off, you would see that see that he’s been a big flop at it. A good manager is one that can balance the needs of the organization within the constraints of its financial ability to pay for it. That doesn’t mean a scorched earth policy of cuts and layoffs, but borrow what you can afford and pay it back!
The Ford tax for nothing is also already in place.
All set to fund a $3 billion subway stop.
The single stupidest use of transit money ever.
Why give him a chance to do stupid things with the provinces money after this?
Liberals and their apologists are either deaf or incredibly obtuse! Back to the subway again, just like blaming Mike Harris. Do you need to be reminded that Ford is long gone from city council and was but 1 vote at the time. A NEW MAYOR and NEW COUNCIL (with the same adle minded lefties) are there now and they all voted to keep and fund the Scarborough extention. Perhaps you also need to be reminded that once the tunnel is built stops and stations can be added as volume dictates. As far as Ford taking a bulldozer to the province, after a 15 year train wreck perhaps a bulldozer is what’s needed to clean up the garbage left behind.
I remember. It was pretty brutal. But expected because the majority of that government had never governed in their lives. Same can't be said for Wynne's government. There's a lot of experience there. They have just done a horrible job. And have definitely skewed left in their philosophy they are NDP lite.
Rob Ford had promised to build a 32 Km Subway at a cost of $9 billion. He said that there would be "NO COST TO THE TAXPAYERS". Who was going to fund it if taxpayers did not?
The right wingers buy all that nonsense as if the present Dumb Ford will use a magic wand to suddenly get everything for nothing.
At least Ontario is one of the driving forces of the Canadian economy with the lowest unemployment figures for a couple of decades and an economy that is still growing.
All the right wing pundits had forecasted that Ontario will have no growth, the job figures would be on the decline, etc. Yes, Kathleen Wynne is unpopular, but there is still time for the party to make up that ground. Anyway, no substance as to why Dumb Ford is the capable person to lead the province!!
Because the alternatives are 100% guaranteed to increase spending and the debt,
They have explicitly stated their election platforms are based upon increased spending
Ford has explicitly stated his election platform is based upon eliminating spending
Given the current $300 B debt & $12 B in interest payments & rising rates there is only one choice.
We all know that you are financially incompetent, & just prefer to ignore what you do not understand, but even you must know someone who destroyed their family by spending more than they make.
True but the proposals are all things that are very good ideas.
Far better than what would/will happen under Ford who will still raise taxes and increase the debt despite removing many things Ontarians need.
When judging a candidate, do you think we shouldn't look at their past performance?
The fact that Canada and Ontario both have achieved effectively full employment and a growing economy under Liberal governments seems to escape all of the fiscal conservatives.
....it’s because of the liberals? Don’t you mean in spite of the liberals. Canada’s economic growth is a function of the US economy surging and almost 2 decades of solid economic fundamentals under Chrétien & Harper. Under the liberals Ontario became a have-not province receiving federal welfare for the first time. Trudeau’s legacy will be one of debt, selfies and dress up
