The Two Faces Of Liberal Politics

McGuinty has done this before

By Lorrie Goldstein

Question: Why did the McGuinty go to a publicly funded, faith-based school to tell us Conservative Leader John Tory's plan to publicly fund-faith based schools endangers public education?

Answer: Because it's all he's got, turkeys.

So far, despite media hysteria, the polls haven't really changed. Premier Dalton McGuinty's Liberals are stuck at 40% support -- with the Conservatives stalled five or six points back.

While those numbers give McGuinty enough to win, they won't give him a majority government.

If that holds, McGuinty won't be celebrating Oct. 10. That's why McGuinty keeps doing his Chicken Little routine that on Monday, saw him descend on a poor, unsuspecting publicly-funded faith-based school (Catholic) to denounce public funding for faith-based schools (non-Catholic).

A few years ago, McGuinty, his past and present education ministers (Gerard Kennedy (who made his bones on the backs of the poor and hungry) and Kathleen Wynne), and other Liberals said the policy he's now denouncing was the fair thing to do.

So why is McGuinty, educated at a publicly funded, faith-based school, smearing Tory as a segregationist and fear-mongering by implying that whatever's going on in those privately-funded Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Hindu and other faith-based schools, it's probably not anything good?

Why is this self-described champion of diversity, stooping to this?

Because what else is he going to do, silly, to get his support up to the 43% level he needs for a majority government?

Run on his record of keeping his election promises? Ha, ha ha!