By Pepper Parr
March 31st, 2018
BURLINGTON, ON
If it’s Saturday and you have at some point told friends that you favour a particular political party – you just might find yourself out on the street with a clipboard in hand knocking on doors and trying to identify the vote for the candidate of your choice.
The guy in the upper right is the campaign manager for a died in the wool Liberal running for city council. PC candidate Jane McKenna lower left.
Jane McKenna is out with her team, Eleanor McMahon meets with her team in a coffee shop before they head out to a neighbourhood to canvas.
There might by an NDP candidate – we just haven’t heard of one yet.
Liberals with the lawn signs.
The election is June 7th – and this time there is a stark clear choice: Doug Ford has a strong deliberate message – “massive” tax increases – unspeakable amount of waste of tax payer’s money; Kathleen Wynne is prepared to borrow and spend millions to prepare the province for tomorrow.
Listen to the debates; question everything you hear and then vote following you head and not your heart.
I can honestly say that I don’t ever remember being so concerned about an upcoming election as I am with this Provincial one and then the Municipal one later in the year. I wonder if hacking and social media will somehow control and cloud the important issues, if more voters will have given up and stay home and do not vote. Can our young people save our democracy?
Doug Ford has a strong deliberate message – “massive” tax increases – unspeakable amount of waste of tax payer’s money…………..not all of it is a waste: need mental healthcare & rejuvenated Hospital budgets (decimated by Wynne), need all day child care for those making Minimum wage, need better public transit BUT don’t need the bureaucracy that goes with all of the above. Get rid of the centrally driven LHINs (pay out their severance) and you will save Billions.
Kathleen Wynne is prepared to borrow and spend millions to prepare the province for tomorrow. She will also prepare out children and our children’s children on what it means to be the most heavily taxed have not province in Canada. Most millennium jobs will be temporary, part-time lack benefits, pension, etc. How do you get a tax base from that type of job market. You will see “Inheritance Tax” and annual “Wealth Tax” which will further drive the upper middle class and their spending capital out of the province.
If Wynne steps down now, the Liberals will win the next election even with their voting bribing budget. If not, then it is unpredictable race as the two leaders in question, come with too much baggage but interesting enough, much of the laundry they carry is the same.