If You Voted For Change Then You Were Conned

Along with all the broken promises by the provincial fiberals, under the "leadership" of Dalton McGinty, you are getting no change when it comes to education and very little change when it comes to health care. These are two systems where the problems are systemic and no matter what government is in charge the incompetency of the of the administration and the power struggles in the unions is obvious. It appears most of the money going into the systems is not going to educate students or treat sick people.

Labour peace, at a cost Three Toronto area boards are still in the red

By MOIRA MACDONALD

Ontario's Liberal government probably never expected it would have to direct the "s" word at a school board.

After all, chiding the previous Tory government for bringing in provincially-appointed "supervisors" to run three boards in 2002/2003 (Toronto District, Hamilton-Wentworth District and Ottawa-Carleton) was an important part of the Liberals' election campaign.

But now even the Liberals have almost no options left to deal with the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board, which has about 88,000 students across Mississauga, Brampton, Bolton, Caledon, Orangeville and Dufferin County. The board is more than $16 million in the red and trustees refuse to make all the cuts needed to balance their budget.

After months of meetings with trustees and staff, a government-appointed investigator sent in last spring, then a "special advisor" this summer, a new "deadline" of Sept. 22 to submit a balanced budget (missed) and finally a personal, direct appeal last week from the latest education minister, Kathleen Wynne, there are only two more steps left: Issue a "letter of direction" telling Dufferin-Peel to balance its budget, as the province did Friday, and appoint a supervisor if it doesn't comply.

The Liberals were supposed to be the "peace in our time" government on the education file. Making waves wasn't part of the plan. But having three school boards without balanced budgets -- Toronto's public and Catholic boards are the other two and there is talk that others have technically balanced their budgets on paper but will fall into true deficit some time during this school year -- isn't part of the plan, either.

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