Liberal/Leftwing Leadership - The Ultimate Oxymoron

The leftwing is so busy saving the world that they don't see what is happening at home. Look at the record of Chretein/Martin over the last 13 years, McGuinty over the last three years and Miller and his cronies over the last three years...broken promises, poor fiscal management, outright criminal behaviour and arrogance.

February 2, 2007
Dalton: More leadership, less whining
Has anyone asked why the Mcguinty Liberals can't balance Ontario's books?
By ADAM TAYLOR

After nearly four years in power, Ontarians are getting weary of the same old song crooned by Premier Dalton McGuinty. Everyone but him is to blame for all of Ontario's problems. Sound like leadership?

Ontario's premier sees bogeymen everywhere. First it was the predecessor Conservatives who "surprisingly" left a huge deficit. In the 2003 provincial election McGuinty's Liberals shouted from the rooftops that Ernie Eves was hiding a deficit. Yet that didn't stop McGuinty from promising not to raise taxes. He even signed the Canadian Taxpayers Federation's "Taxpayer Protection Pledge" and vowed to only raise taxes with the explicit consent of Ontarians in a province-wide referendum. In their first budget, the Liberals introduced what may very well be the most deceptively-named tax hike since Confederation. Calling it a "health premium" it was the largest tax increase in Ontario's history, and every cent goes directly into the General Revenue Fund, like every other provincial tax.

Next, the McGuinty government blamed the federal government for its fiscal woes, loudly proclaiming the existence of a so-called "fiscal imbalance." Is there a fiscal imbalance? Absolutely. It exists between governments and taxpayers. McGuinty's "fiscal imbalance" is simply a debate between two levels of government over who gets to squeeze more out of the same taxpayer.

The Ontario government is now using tax dollars to make its "fiscal imbalance" case. In November 2006, the government of Ontario launched the "fairness.ca" website. The website claims Ontario is "shortchanged by billions of dollars every year." It urges Ontarians to send messages to their federal representatives calling for fairness and equality, or in other words, billions more in handouts. The Ontario government even purchased ad space on Bourque.com, a popular Canadian political news site to get their message out.

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