Baz said:
Do you believe the NDP and Liberals can? Do you believe the Liberals and NDP will lower your cost of energy, products ect....
Do you really think the Conservatives will?
History lesson, Baz. Before the GST, there was a 'hidden' manufacturer's tax (or some such). When Brian Mulroney proposed the GST, he said the cost of goods would go down because the retailers would no longer be paying this tax and the savings would be passed along to the consumer. The GST went into effect, and prices stayed the same. Mind you the public ended up paying an extra 7% on most of those goods.
But let's look at Mr Hudak's history.
He has said before he looks at Mike Harris as his mentor. Yes, the same Mike Harris that did a royal number on the education system, the health care system,....Well pretty much every provincially supported system. Saw some of the greatest labour unrest in the province. His Minister of Education said they would cause a crisis in the education system, and when the shit hit the fan, they blamed the teachers for it. Turned back labour laws something like 60 years. And let's not forget the megacit
ies. Yes, I said cities. Sure you have Toronto, they got all the press, but many other municipalities were stuck with it too. You want a head banger for that, check out the City of Kawartha Lakes. Said city is primarily farm country. Most residents of the 'megacities' were opposed to them, and pointed at how they failed in other countries. But Mr Harris knew what he was doing, ignored the 'minorities' and went a head with it any way. The Harris government also sold off many provincial assets in an effort to keep the books looking balanced.
Mr Hudak has repeatedly proven he is anti-labour, and has voiced his desire to undo many labour laws. Now you might say unions are too powerful (I say bullshit, but that's another argument), but any changes to labour laws that negatively affect unions with either directly or indirectly impact non-unionized workers as well to the negative.
One Mr Hudak's first electoral stops was at a school called Metal Works. While speaking about the benefits of the school and education, and how it was working to get Ontario back on it's feet, it was brought up that he voted against the program that was helping fund Metal Works.
The next day, Mr Hudak was doing a show and tell at a manufacturing plant. Again, while doing his spiel it was brought up this place was also supported by a program he voted against.
The the third day, while touting his Million Jobs Plan, he stated he plans on laying off 100,00 public workers.
He promises to cut governmental waste and improve services. That sounds good, really good, and when something sounds too good... I'm sorry, but when I hear that it means the cuts are coming from the front lines and that will affect services. What happened the last time the PCs cut waste in education, we saw cuts to teachers, liberians, teachers assistants. And of course the ever confusing 'extra curricular activities'. That killed me. "Teacher's jobs are in the class room, and not on the soccer field. Therefore they will no longer be 'paid' to do that." (IIRC teachers were 'banking' the ECA time, and using as spares during the course of the school day) But when the teachers withdrew their services from ECAs, the government quickly changed their tune to "ECAs are part of the teachers job." Of course they never mentioned that part of their job they weren't paid for apparently....
He has a plan to create one million jobs. I'm sorry, I've looked at his 'plan' and don't see anything there. Cut energy costs = more jobs? Cut small business bureaucracy = less business costs = more jobs. Well, that assumes the companies choose to spend those savings on more employees rather than show an increased profit. Nor does he really specify whether these will be part time minimum wage jobs, or decent paying, value added full time jobs. And seeing how employers are really digging the former right now...
He plans on reducing the bureaucracy affecting small businesses. Would that be oh...labour laws?
If you haven't noticed, I don't trust him. He's pretty much waking in lockstep with the likes of Harper and Harris. I don't like Harper, and I really didn't like what Harris did.
Plus there's my beef with Laurie Scott.
