I Don't Believe It.............Oops! I forgot that we have a liberal government at Queens Park and that after Diapergate anything is possible.
McSquinty Liberals?
Does anyone else find it somewhat amusing that the same provincial government that decided it should no longer cover the cost of regular eye examinations has now, through Access Ontario, launched an extensive, and I suspect expensive, ad campaign in the subway and other print media, urging restaurants to move to larger print on their menus? You had to know Dalton McGuinty and George Smitherman would not leave the optically challenged among us without a solution.
DENNIS JONES
Cone Of Silence
Witnesses must speak up
Re "Dad pleads for son's killer to turn himself in" (March 18): It is tragic to hear about another Toronto homicide; especially when the cold-blooded killer is still wandering the streets. Since the senseless murder was caught on tape, we can possibly bring the killer to justice. Although the tape was not very clear, a few people in the community might be able to identify the gunman. They should come forward and help give the victim's family and the entire community a sense of closure. Some people refuse to come forward as witnesses because they want to avoid being labelled a "snitch." There is absolutely no need for silence. As long as witnesses remain silent, the entire community will suffer because there is a murderer among us. The killer will not turn himself in because he is too much of a coward. Toronto needs to get these cowards off the streets.
SOPHIA ABDI
Equalization Payments
Let's not forget the reduction of equalization payments to Ontario started during the time that Martin was Finance Minister and he was trying to get us out of the debacle created by PET's just society cradle to grave phenomenon.
Equalization is breaking us
Re "Flaherty strikes again" (Editorial, March 19): The real reason Ontario is becoming a "have-not" province is because several decades of equalization have taken hundreds of billions of dollars out of our economy to support the perpetual welfare cases of Canada. So extreme and unfair is equalization to Ontario that per capita our service levels are lower than the provinces we support financially. How about doing something positive for your own province, Flaherty -- maybe make amends for the damage you left behind after your term as finance minister? It's about time Ontario started flexing its muscle.
JOHN DIMITROPOULOS
2 comments:
"...created by PET's just society cradle to grave phenomenon."
It's amazing how you prefer to lump all the blame on a liberal. The truth is, most of the debt was actually added by the conservatives.
Suffice to say, Trudeau left a bigger debt, and then Mulroney did nothing but explode the debt to horrific levels in history where, it took the liberals to clean it up.
You also might note, that it only took the conservatives, 2 years to blow throw the biggest surplus in history left by the liberals. The lowest tax bracket never got a tax break.
The conservatives simply rolled back the one given by the liberals, and then gave it back. So much for helping the working poor.
I agree Mulrooney chickened out when it came to being a fiscal conservative and he tried to go up against grey power.
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