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Tuesday November 25, 2014

November 24, 2014 by Graeme MacKay

Tuesday November 25, 2014Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Tuesday November 25, 2014

No détente in sight for Stephen Harper and Kathleen Wynne

(Column by Tim Harper) The Long War between Stephen Harper and Kathleen Wynne is only going to get longer — and likely more intense.

There’s simply too much at stake for both sides for détente, certainly not heading into a federal election campaign and the electoral riches available in this province.

The Harper Conservatives remember how Wynne campaigned against them last spring, they know they are dealing with aggressive adversaries in Ontario and they remember well Wynne’s characterization of the Harper “smirk” during that campaign as she recounted a previous, private discussion about pension reform.

They feel there is too much whining coming from a Queen’s Park government trying to take the focus off its own problems.

They want to campaign against a gang that will wear the hated sobriquet of “tax and spend” Liberals, a group of renegades who do not kneel at the Harper altar of tax cuts and shiny balanced books.

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Wynne and her Finance Minister Charles Sousa, with their big-spending election budget, their declining revenues, potential tax hikes and blame-it-all-on Ottawa bleating make an inviting target.

“If you wrote a story every time Charles Sousa blamed Ottawa for his problems, you’d end up writing nothing else,’’ a senior Conservative said this week.

“After 11 years in office, it is time for the Ontario Liberals to take responsibility for their economic management,’’ says Finance Minister Joe Oliver — also the GTA minister, by the way.

When Conservatives look at Kathleen Wynne, they see Justin Trudeau. Their instincts tell them to fight and discredit, not to sit and discuss the big issues of the day bedeviling the country’s two largest governments.

They saw Trudeau stumping for Wynne last spring and Wynne returning the favour, appearing on behalf of Trudeau’s candidate in this week’s Whitby-Oshawa byelection.

If Harper is seen to be snubbing Wynne, then he does so at his own peril, because it is risky to campaign as a tired government seeking a new mandate after nearly a decade in office by taking on a popular provincial government, with Wynne and Trudeau campaigning arm-in-arm. (Continued: Toronto Star)

 

Posted in: Canada, Ontario Tagged: Canada, collaboration, federal-provincial, Kathleen Wynne, Ontario, pension, Stephen Harper, transfer payments

Thursday August 7, 2014

August 7, 2014 by Graeme MacKay

Thursday August 7, 2014By Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Thursday August 7, 2014

Kathleen Wynne urges feds to stop neglecting infrastructure

Premier Kathleen Wynne says infrastructure in Canada is in dire straits.

Friday, February 28, 2014“Public infrastructure‎ in Canada has been neglected by all levels of government for too long,” Wynne told a special interprovincial summit Wednesday.

“And I would argue that now — time is up,” she said, adding progress can only be made when the provinces and the federal governments work together.

‎Wynne noted that Ontario is asking Ottawa “to do its part” by increasing it’s annual investment in infrastructure to 2 per cent of GDP.

“This is not about asking the federal government for something that isn’t going to benefit them,” she said.

Wynne said for example the province is sending $130 billion over 10 years on infrastructure compared to the federal government spending $70 billion over the next decade on the whole country.

The Premier said investment in infrastructure started to drop off in the 1970s “when Canada pulled back from a period of postwar infrastructure investment.

“This mistake wasn’t fully apparent until the 1990s. That’s when the crack could no longer be hidden,” she told the gathering of premiers, provincial ministers and municipal and private sector representatives.

Wynne noted that according to a Statistics Canada report, 10 per cent of private sector productivity gains between 1962 and 2006 were due to investment in infrastructure.

She also cited another StatsCan report that concluded that every dollar invested in public infrastructure lowers business costs by 11 cents and reduces manufacturing costs by 27 cents on average. (Source: Toronto Star)

Posted in: Ontario Tagged: Editorial Cartoon, federal, federalsim, funding, infrastructure, Kathleen Wynne, Stephen Harper, transfer payments

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