Covering up liberal cutbacks

 From what I've seen this week, the Toronto Star is trying to cover up liberal cutbacks to education by blaming the School board for wasted spending and raising revenue by selling off school property. There are comments such as this:

“In Scarborough, we’ve been spoiled — we have big playgrounds and park areas attached to our schools,” said the trustee for Scarborough East, who is a former principal. “When you compare them to some of the schools in the former Toronto board, what a difference.”

Please, who in their right mind thinks we're being spoiled by the Government. They're trying to sell school property so they can generate cash. The Provincial Government is cutting $110 million in Education.

Here is the latest on this:

http://www.thestar.com/news/education/article/1213960--schoolyard-sale-toronto-board-looks-to-sell-parts-of-playgrounds-to-raise-cash

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
For more liberal bias just read the about the improvements the R.C.M.P. is making. According to the Star, they're off to a good start. How's this for a comment: 
Canadians have been shocked by RCMP indiscipline, bungling and wrongdoing. In 2006 then-commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli left under a cloud, a morale-shattering low for the force. Brown then issued his damning report. Four officers faced perjury charges in the 2007 Taser-related death of Robert Dziekanski. And the force has been battered for bungling the Air India bombing investigation, for mishandling Maher Arar who was tortured in Syria, for abuse of authority and for sexual harassment and assault.
 
Let's be honest: Maybe the Star is shocked by this but are we really. Does anyone remember Guiliano Zaccardelli the Chief of the RCMP? A story of perjury. The Polish man who died after being tasered is awful but I don't think anyone blamed the Police. What was the the Police connection to the Air India bombing which happened in 1985, how did they bungle that? What's awful is that many people died in a Canadian terrorist attack.
 
The other thing that happened was that (the liberals did this), one of those terrorist was given just a 5 year sentence so he could testify against the other terrorists and they could go away for a long time. But here's the kicker, even with this guy's testimony, they still got off. And he still only got 5 years.
How awful. What's awful is that the Toronto Star fails to mention, and covers up the FACT that liberal soft on crime is the real problem. Not the Police. 
Let's ask the question of who here has seen Police corruption? I don't think it doesn't happen. But well, the police are generally a trustworthy orginisation. There not one law abiding citizen who says I don't want the police to be here. Or that they're corrupt.
I'm reading a book by Gen. Rick Hillier who mentions that the Police, RCMP have not been perfect, but the TRUST (I want to emphasize this) between the Police and the Public is there. I will in the near future, use this book for one of these posts. I'm sure the Toronto Star will continue to be bias about this, and other things. LOL.
 
 

More of the latest: http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/1216201--rcmp-reform-is-off-to-a-good-start

Have a nice day.

prorogue The Legislature? Good idea.

Michael Warren of the Toronto Star is suggesting that Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty prorogue the Ontario Legislature which I think is a good idea, if you want to lose the next election. In this case it would be over a budget, which the minority liberals can't seem to pass. Tim Hudak and the Progressive Conservatives have never supported the budget and Andrea Horwath and the NDP are listening, but are making big demands. For example, the NDP want a new tax on people earning half a million a year in income a year. Huh? I'm not sure what to say to that. Should I be glad that I don't make that much? Maybe Andrea Horwath doesn't.
Anyways, I think it may be important to look at the polls here. It shows the PC's at 35.4, NDP (29.9) liberals (28%).

"Emboldened by recent polls that show the liberals trailing both the Tories and the NDP, Horwath has made a new, costly, last-minute demand. She will reduce the number of budget provisions the NDP currently opposes in committee..."
So if I put forth a budget and you were opposed to let's say 20 of the ideas proposed by the budget, you  
would only oppose 10? Again, huh? That kind of says that these proposals don't mean much too them. They're not doing this for the people I don't think. The Conservatives are doing the good thing by opposing the budget from the beginning and it may prove to be the smart move. I'm not sure what the polls were at the time of the budget which was presented back in March, but they may be doing the right thing.
The Star makes has no problem with the Ontario Budget being 327 pages long. But it opposes the federal Conservatives Omnibus budget bill being 425 pages. It may be the issue of the Opposition not having enough time to go over the budget with a fine tooth comb. The federal Conservatives have a majority, McGuinty doesn't. There's a few reasons. The Star supports these liberals.

Among the sticking points that the liberals need the NDP to support is the arbitration process to Ontario Public Service. That's not just government employees they are dealing with, that's unions. And we all know that NDP is pro union. These unions in their members actually send a big chunk of their donations to the NDP. Federally and Provincial.

In the column it says: Emergency Services Steering Committee representing large urban mayors, regional chairs and Police Service Boards (I guess when you talk large urban mayors you also mean places like Toronto), it says Ontario public service employees' wages rose a staggering 40-70 percent higher than the consumer price index between 2005 and 2010. Maybe they mean inflation. Either way it's a lot. But the column mentions 14.8% when it comes employees wages. If you were the NDP, you might oppose the fact that it isn't 15% and should be higher. The heck with the rest of the Province, they can pay it.
The question is: Will Andrea Horwath and her members support this budget proposal? Doubt it.

So again, proroguing Parliament. Is it a good idea? Here are his reasons:
1. It allows the liberals to sell their budget during the summer to the public.
    I say it's a bad idea but especially during the summer when we're all taking vacations,  watching baseball and sports and going up to the cottage on long weekends. Politics, politicians and elections are the last thing on people's minds, and the last thing people want to hear about.

2. I gives the liberals a chance to negotiate with the Opposition on their Budget proposals.
    Better idea I say, but do politicians really want to meet in the middle of summer to go over this budget? If I was the Leader of one of those political parties I'd send in one of my colleagues and ask him/her to just phone the details.

There is a third reason which is not very significant.
Overall, I say this: Proroguing Parliament is a bad idea. The only people who will lose by doing this is the liberals who will feel the wrath from the Opposition for doing it. There will apparantly be a bi-election in the riding of Kitchener/Waterloo which will come in September, I think the liberals will feel the wrath of the people in that bi-election. If it is called.

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