I'm going to bookmark this quote for when Wynne tells the unions there is a payfreeze coming and the labour unrest starts. And when the attrition aand layoffs come up to balance the budget.
Also the new payroll and othe taxes. And Hydro rate increases.
And wait to see the defense.......
Whatever the defence, it'll be smarter and play better than
elmos version of Hudak's grade school 'F' arithmetic: That he was telling the truth and shouldn't have.
All pols lie, because none of us handle the truth well at all (of course I do, but I'm only one voter. OK, granted, but we're still just two votes). But encouraging them to lie and mis-represent, and blaming them for not doing a better job and more of it is no way to get better pols or better voters.
Tim foolishly ran on lying numbers, amateurishly polished into transparently exaggerated and improbable campaign slogans about hirings and firings. Lies or not, to voters that translated into 'same-old, same-old' even more badly than Horwath's self-interested 'if I don't jump now…'. And that cost us $10 or more per vote, stalled everything for weeks, and lost her and us the power of uncertainty that sometimes makes minority governments listen just a little better.
As a person Wynne is unusually good at listening and finding room for disparate and dissonant opinions that keep most folks mostly happy most of the time. Now that she has gotten all the other hands off the wheel, we'll see if she can also drive the bus on a straight route, get there on time and with a bit of gas in the tank. Thanks to Tim and Andrea's hard-lines and our decisions on Thursday that's all we can do.
Oh, and about that labour unrest: We call that bargaining. Us stolid northerners never got to watch it as a commonplace in the market, but that's all it is. That kind of argy-bargy and back and forth is what keeps successful democracies from breaking down into armed violence because there's no other option to get your share or your point across. Dialogue is only pretty when it's scripted, and as 'false' as actors on a stage in a theatre. Like
elmo wanted for Tim.
The real answer to 'What Went Wrong?' was not enough dialogue. Not enough contending opinions, not voiced often enough.
F'rinstance, as some demand: With our roads, healthcare, transit, education, electrical grid and housing all in excellent shape; with no calls coming in to be answered, and nothing important left to be done, why not lay swivel servants off, cut revenues and most important
cut my taxes, so I can get back to
Bachelorette re-runs on TRVA24?
We'll see if Wynne has what it takes to come up with your answer.
