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Wednesday July 13, 2022

July 13, 2022 by Graeme MacKay

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Wednesday July 13, 2022

Ousted Conservative leadership candidate Patrick Brown undecided about second Brampton mayoral run

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A spokesman for Patrick Brown says the disqualified Conservative leadership candidate won’t make any decisions about running for re-election as mayor of Brampton, Ontario until he has time to talk to family and friends.

Brown entered the race to become the next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada without resigning his job as Brampton’s mayor.

He previously said he would consider running again in October’s municipal election if he thought he couldn’t win the federal race, and he has until August 19th to register as a mayoral candidate.

Brown’s position in the federal race changed last week when the party’s leadership election organizing committee voted to boot him from the contest over an allegation that he breached federal financing laws. (CP24) 

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Meanwhile, Eight candidates have made it through to the first stage of the Tory leadership contest – actually getting onto the ballot.

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have already attracted some big name support, while another big name, former health secretary Sajid Javid, is no longer in the running.

The first hustings are being held in parliament Tuesday night, with candidates given 12 minutes each to put their case, before MPs take part in the first round of voting Wednesday afternoon. (Channel 4 News) 

 

Posted in: Canada, International, Ontario Tagged: 2022-22, Boris Johnson, Brampton, Canada, Downing Street, Kemi Badenoch, leadership, Nadhim Zahawi, Patrick Brown, Rishi Sunak, Suella Braverman, Tory, UK

Friday November 1, 2019

November 8, 2019 by Graeme MacKay

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Friday November 1, 2019

Can Doug Ford learn from his mistakes?

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has ended the longest legislative break in a quarter century and his own political exile. He admits his government has made mistakes and vows to find a new “tone” going forward.

May 29, 2019

“Governing is always hard,” says Ford. “We all mature in the role that we’re in and you just try not to make the same mistakes.”

Far be it for this page to disagree with Ford on any of that. Or his stated desire to “learn by your mistakes.”

His government has been a disaster, and the way Ontario voters cast their ballots in last week’s federal election strongly suggests they also know it.

But putting the wrecking ball that has been the hallmark of the Ford government’s first 16 months down to exuberance is far too simplistic.

The early autism cuts and cronyism scandal, for example, were mistakes. But much of the chaos in everything from education to social services is not the result of haste or blundering. It flows from purposeful policy decisions to cut costs.

October 29, 2019

So as Ford seeks to reset his government the real question is what exactly he thinks are his “mistakes.” That his policies proved to be more unpopular with the people of Ontario than expected, or that they were the wrong direction in the first place?

If it’s the former, Ontarians can expect to see a slower pace of change with more effort put into finding support for the government’s cuts. If it’s the latter, and we hope it is, it might mean more than that.

Monday’s Question Period, though, didn’t bode well for the idea that the new and improved Ford government is about substance and not just style.

Ford welcomed back NDP Leader Andrea Horwath and thanked her for her questions. Then he launched into the same half-truths he’s always peddled.

On education, Ford said, the government is investing “more money than any government in the history of Ontario.” But per student funding — the primary means of funding schools — is down; some high school students are struggling to get the classes they need for university; and teachers’ unions, furious about job reductions, are set to take strike votes.

May 14, 2019

On Ford’s appalling taxpayer-funded court battle over the federal carbon pricing plan, he continued to claim people “just can’t afford it.” He ignored, as usual, the fact that most people will get back more than they pay because of the rebates that come with it.

It’s obvious that Ford needs to reset his government’s agenda.

At this point, no one, not even his own Progressive Conservative colleagues, can possibly know even what it is, given all the U-turns and waffles over the last few months.

Ford happily blew up Toronto city council mid-election, supposedly to create better and more efficient municipal government and vowed to extend such thinking to other regions. Then, on Friday, after months of consultation and study the government abandoned that idea; instead, it offered municipalities more money to find efficiencies and improve services.

May 4, 2019

The province has finally moved to enact legislation passed by the former Liberal government to ban the promotion of vaping products in convenience stores but hasn’t done the same thing on labour reforms needed to protect temporary workers. It has reduced its deep cuts to child care, but not for legal aid. On carbon pricing Ford changed his mind two months ago, only to change it back again last week.

How is anyone to know what this government stands for now?

At the top of the Ford government’s list of legislative priorities is “restoring trust and accountability in government.”

After promising efficiencies but delivering devastating cuts that will be a long road.

And if Ford really wants to avoid repeating his mistakes, this legislative session needs to be about more than softer words. (Toronto Star) 

 

Posted in: Ontario Tagged: 2019-38, chainsaw, conciliatory, cuts, derogatory, Doug Ford, harp, harpist, Music, Ontario, party, Tory

Tuesday September 10, 2013

September 10, 2013 by Graeme MacKay

Tuesday September 10, 2013

By Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Tuesday September 10, 2013

Peter Shurman fired as Tory finance critic over housing allowance

Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak has fired his finance critic, Thornhill MPP Peter Shurman, for taking a $20,719 housing allowance from taxpayers last year.

Shurman, a former talk radio host who represents a suburban riding bordering Toronto’s Steeles Ave., but moved to a $660,000 home in Niagara-on-the-Lake and claimed the allowance for an apartment near Queen’s Park where he stays while working at the legislature.

Hudak said in a statement Sunday night that controversy over the payout — which was not strictly against regulations — was becoming a distraction for his party and its message of respect for taxpayer dollars.

A source said Hudak’s meeting with Shurman to discuss the allowance Sunday turned into “a very heated exchange” with the leader asking his MPP to repay the housing allowance, which Shurman refused.

The source said Hudak was aware Shurman was moving to Niagara-on-the-Lake but did not know the Thornhill MPP was claiming the housing allowance.

Shurman declined to comment when asked about repayment.

The Conservatives — and in particular, Shurman, as finance critic — have been slamming the Liberal government for its $11.7-billion deficit and for spending $585 million to scrap power plants in Oakville and Mississauga before the 2011 election.

“While the current rules were followed, it is clear taxpayers hold elected officials to a higher standard and those rules need to be changed,” Hudak said Sunday after meeting with Shurman. (Source: Toronto Star)

Posted in: Ontario Tagged: allowance, entitlements, housing, integrity, MPP, Ontario, PC, Peter, politician, Shurman, taxpayers, Tory

Wednesday October 5, 2011

October 5, 2011 by Graeme MacKay

By Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator -  Wednesday October 5, 2011 HarperÕs talk of Tory trifecta handicaps Hudak Stephen HarperÕs public musings about a Conservative hat trick Ð Tories ruling Ottawa, QueenÕs Park and TorontoÕs city hall Ð is more chilling than warming for Ontario Progressive Conservatives, new polling data suggests. Ditto for the high-profile endorsement by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty of PC chief Tim Hudak last week. ÒOntario voters have always shown a tendency to hedge their bets between the two senior levels of government,Ó EKOS Research pollster Frank Graves told The Globe. He noted that Bill Davis was Progressive Conservative premier during Pierre TrudeauÕs tenure, then there was Tory Mike Harris during the Jean ChrŽtienÕs time in government and now thereÕs Dalton McGuinty and Mr. Harper. The latest EKOS poll numbers suggest a strong Conservative majority in Ottawa ÒpredisposesÓ Ontarians not to vote for Mr. Hudak. In fact, about three to one Òlean to be less rather than more likely to vote Conservative,Ó Mr. Graves said. Released Monday, the EKOS survey gives the Liberals a seven point lead over the Tories Ð with 37.8 per cent support for Mr. McGuinty compared to 30. 6 per cent for Mr. Hudak. Andrea Horwath and her New Democrats are at 22.7 per cent. That tally is in contrast to the Nanos Research survey conducted for The Globe and Mail and CTV. It shows the Tories and Liberals locked in a dead heat, with 35.6 per cent support for Mr. McGuinty compared to 36.4 per cent for Mr. Hudak. (Source: Globe & Mail) http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/harpers-talk-of-tory-trifecta-handicaps-hudak-pollster-says/article2188847/ Canada, Stephen Harper, Tim Hudak, Rob Ford, John Tory, Tory, Trumvirate, Trifecta, Conservative, PC, Ontario

By Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator –  Wednesday October 5, 2011

Harper’s talk of Tory trifecta handicaps Hudak

Stephen Harper’s public musings about a Conservative hat trick – Tories ruling Ottawa, Queen’s Park and Toronto’s city hall – is more chilling than warming for Ontario Progressive Conservatives, new polling data suggests.

Ditto for the high-profile endorsement by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty of PC chief Tim Hudak last week.

“Ontario voters have always shown a tendency to hedge their bets between the two senior levels of government,” EKOS Research pollster Frank Graves told The Globe.

He noted that Bill Davis was Progressive Conservative premier during Pierre Trudeau’s tenure, then there was Tory Mike Harris during the Jean Chrétien’s time in government and now there’s Dalton McGuinty and Mr. Harper.

The latest EKOS poll numbers suggest a strong Conservative majority in Ottawa “predisposes” Ontarians not to vote for Mr. Hudak. In fact, about three to one “lean to be less rather than more likely to vote Conservative,” Mr. Graves said.

Released Monday, the EKOS survey gives the Liberals a seven point lead over the Tories – with 37.8 per cent support for Mr. McGuinty compared to 30. 6 per cent for Mr. Hudak. Andrea Horwath and her New Democrats are at 22.7 per cent.

That tally is in contrast to the Nanos Research survey conducted for The Globe and Mail and CTV. It shows the Tories and Liberals locked in a dead heat, with 35.6 per cent support for Mr. McGuinty compared to 36.4 per cent for Mr. Hudak. (Source: Globe & Mail)

 

Posted in: Canada Tagged: Canada, Conservative, John Tory, Ontario, PC, Rob Ford, Stephen Harper, Tim Hudak, Tory, Trifecta, Trumvirate

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