Wynne government targets 'mother' and 'father'

[Detra Darden]

Politicians are that bored and with nothing else to do but shit disturb?. This has gone way too far.



“Mother” may soon be replaced in Ontario law by the term “birth parent.”

That’s what’s incorporated in amendments contained in the Liberal government’s proposed Bill 28 which is designed to change the “Children’s Law Reform Act, the Vital Statistics Act and various other acts respecting parentage.”

Premier Kathleen Wynne’s government says a new All Families Are Equal Act will modernize the definition of families.
“People in Ontario value diversity and equality — that’s why all parents and their kids need to be treated equally under the law,” said Wynne spokesperson Clare Graham.

But opponents complain Wynne is re-defining the Ontario family.

“The communists had their one-child policy; Ontario has Wynne’s four-parent policy. Being a father or mother has been trivialized,” said Queenie Yu, who’s also a vocal critic of Ontario’s sex-ed curriculum.

She plans to be loud again.

Many religious and ethnic groups — also upset about “age inappropriate” introduction of sexual and gender identity teachings — are preparing for battle, too.
“The premier is re-engineering the family,” said Charles McVety, of Canada Christian College.

“She removes ‘mother’ 17 times. Removes ‘father’ 23 times. The Act is amended by striking out the ‘mother’ and substituting it with ‘birth parent’ and ‘father’ with the word ‘parent.’”

However Graham countered “there is no one way to start and raise a family” and offered assurances that the terms “mother and father” will remain on a child’s birth certificate.

“We’re proposing to update Ontario’s parentage laws so that parents who have a baby with the help of a doctor don’t need to spend their money on a lawyer and go to court just so they can be their own kid’s parents,” said Graham.

“The best thing for a kid is that there is no uncertainty about who their parents are. At the end of the day, this is about ensuring that all kids are treated equally by recognizing the legal status of their parents no matter if their parents are LGBTQ2+ or straight, and no matter if they were conceived with the help of a doctor.”

Progressive Conservative MPP Randy Hillier last week argued there needs to be more time for study, insisting the bill was introduced with too much haste.
And McVety agreed the government is rushing the bill through, calling it a “war on mothers” which could lead to the breakdown of the traditional family.

“Mothers are the bedrock of society and their love gives life,” said McVety. “A mother can take the place of all others but no one else can take the place of a mother.”

Yu added everything is moving so fast that the bill hasn’t been translated into Chinese languages, excluding some from the democratic process.
“The government is trying to erase all trace of biological parents from these children for an ideological motive,” she said. “It’s just unnatural.”

Meanwhile, with focus on the Blue Jays games, will public hearings at Queen’s Park Monday and Tuesday be noticed?

McVety will speak to the committee at 5:40 p.m Monday. Yu is slated to speak at 5:40 p.m. Tuesday. There are 20 others on the agenda.

Interesting debate. My feeling is modern family realities need to be accepted in law but it’s insulting to eliminate the words “mother and father.” They need to restore that.

But Wynne spokesperson Graham said the bill merely updates legal wording to comply with today’s norms.

“The reality is, family structures are diverse, and there are many people who need a doctor’s help to have a baby,” said Graham.

“The definition of who is a parent in Ontario law hasn’t been updated since 1978 — a lot has changed since then. Right now, that definition is too narrow and excludes parents of modern families.”

Ironically, soon it could also exclude the words “mother” and “father.”

https://www.torontosun.com/2016/10/16/wynne-government-targets-mother-and-father

 

[Leo]

Don't you get tired of hearing the word diversity?.

 

[DannyDeVito]

You all voted for her, blame yourselves.

 

[dragonrider99]

Wynne government targets 'mother' and 'father'

Ontarians deserve wynn until vote her out


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[LickingGravity]

You all voted for her, blame yourselves.

Speak yourself :biggrin2:, after Drooling Dalton and his gas plants I would never vote the school teacher union bribing Liberals.

 

[God]

You mean songs have to be rewritten?.

 

[Wanker]

0/10

 

[peace]

:no::no:

 

[SillyGirl]

It never ceases to amaze me, the stupid stuff that gets panties in wads.

If your traditional family is going to implode because the government has decided to call your Dad your Parent, well methinks your traditional family has bigger issues.

Government has always had to adjust it's paperwork to reflect societal changes, and this is just another case of that. "Mother" and "Father" don't apply in families headed by same-sex couples. "Parent" applies to everyone and would be the most efficient choice, unless the government is prepared to have different forms for different family situations.

 

[Canada-Man]

It never ceases to amaze me, the stupid stuff that gets panties in wads.

If your traditional family is going to implode because the government has decided to call your Dad your Parent, well methinks your traditional family has bigger issues.

Government has always had to adjust it's paperwork to reflect societal changes, and this is just another case of that. "Mother" and "Father" don't apply in families headed by same-sex couples. "Parent" applies to everyone and would be the most efficient choice, unless the government is prepared to have different forms for different family situations.

so why won't the government do that for same sex families instead of imposing it on everybody else?

 

[RoyalPainInTheAss]

Wynne also screwed over the middle to lower class but I rarely hear an uproar about our hydro bill. She sold us outright without a care in the world and people are worrying about a name change?.

“I’m a single mother of two and we literally live in the dark,” writes Ontario resident Grace Dadone. “I do my laundry between 10 and midnight. I try to save on energy costs by going to my mom’s once a week and still my bill is sky high.”

“I don’t use my dryer anymore and hang my clothes to dry,” writes John Lopes, frustrated with high energy prices. He sets his dishwasher to run in the middle of the night, rarely has lights on and now hardly uses heating in the winter.

Yet despite all of these efforts, Lopes found his August bill had gone up by 39% compared to last August’s.

This is a very, very common theme in many of the calls and emails I’ve been receiving from people sharing their hydro headaches. Ontario residents are jumping through hoops to live within the restrictions the government has boxed them. Yet still their rates go up.

“I live in a high-rise apartment building and not once in 10 years have I turned on my heating or air-conditioning,” writes Linda Skarott, who previously worked as an accountant for Ontario Hydro. “Yes, I’m cold in winter, but nothing that extra sweaters and blankets won’t fix. And yes, I’m hot in summer so I frequent malls and libraries on the hottest days.”

One caller from Kemptville - who himself had energy woes - told me a truly sad story about a woman who was always going to the mall daily to keep cool. When he offered to buy her an A/C unit and even install it himself, she declined, afraid of what it would do to her bills.

“In six short years, our monthly bill has gone from $160 per month to this last bill being $470,” says Warren from Cambridge. “This, even as our family does everything right. Laundry on the weekend, dishwasher at night, extra lights turned off. It is affecting our overall family health with the constant frustration of rising bills.”

“Every bill I pay three times the usage in other charges such as delivery and so on,” writes Raj Maharajh. “I no longer use my house A/C.”

I’ve heard these same issues from hundreds of people. They’ve stopped using the stove. They no longer turn the heat on. Their family schedules have become slaves to the off-peak times. It’s almost like the government thinks it’s not their job to serve the people, but that it’s the people’s job to serve them and their agenda.

“Most have no idea what it feels like to skip meals so that your kids can eat,” writes in Caroline Campbell, who’s stressed out by hydro bills. She’s a mother of five who’s had to stop working as a nurse due to degenerative pain. “They have no idea what it is like to do all this and still not be able to get by.”

Real people. Real hardships. And it’s all directly caused by lousy government decisions.

https://www.torontosun.com/2016/10/19/people-rearrange-their-lives-just-to-bring-hydro-usage-down



We believe skyrocketing electricity prices under Premier Kathleen Wynne and the Liberals are the most important issue facing Ontarians heading into the next provincial election.

As National Editor Anthony Furey’s “Hydro Headaches” series, which began in the Sunday Sun reveals, Ontarians are being held hostage by rising energy bills, many forced to freeze in their homes in winter and swelter inside them in summer, for fear of ever rising hydro costs.

Of all the wasteful blunders the Liberals have committed in their 13 years in power — eHealth, Ornge, cancelled gas plants — the worst have been in the energy field, including their mad dash into unreliable and expensive wind and solar power, which wasn’t needed to close Ontario’s coal-fired electricity plants.

Out of control electricity prices are an assault on the middle class.
They have cost hundreds of thousands of Ontarians their jobs, as businesses close or flee for lower-priced jurisdictions.

They endanger home ownership for seniors on fixed incomes.
They are driving many Ontarians into energy poverty, where they spend more than 10% of their income to power their homes.
Energy poverty forces people to decide whether to eat, or light and heat their homes.

It’s a disgrace in a province where a thriving manufacturing sector was built on the slogan of Sir Adam Beck, the founder of Ontario’s hydro system, to deliver “Power at Cost”.

Today, under the Liberals, we have an electricity system where prices are skyrocketing while we have a huge electricity surplus — an indication of how completely they have distorted the market.
The Liberals have been repeatedly criticized by the auditor general for making wrong-headed energy decisions costing billions of dollars.

But when Ontarians ask the Liberals for help, or complain about ill treatment from Hydro One, which the Liberals have put beyond public scrutiny by selling 60% of it to the private sector, they’re ignored.
Or sent form letters dismissing their concerns.

Enough is enough. It’s time to hold the Liberals accountable, to make them explain how they will get us out of the mess they’ve created.

And if there is no plan, to make them suffer the electoral consequences.

https://www.torontosun.com/2016/10/18/lets-expose-wynnes-hydro-horror-show

 

[dragonrider99]

Wynne also screwed over the middle to lower class but I rarely hear an uproar about our hydro bill. She sold us outright without a care in the world and people are worrying about a name change?.

“I’m a single mother of two and we literally live in the dark,” writes Ontario resident Grace Dadone. “I do my laundry between 10 and midnight. I try to save on energy costs by going to my mom’s once a week and still my bill is sky high.”

“I don’t use my dryer anymore and hang my clothes to dry,” writes John Lopes, frustrated with high energy prices. He sets his dishwasher to run in the middle of the night, rarely has lights on and now hardly uses heating in the winter.

Yet despite all of these efforts, Lopes found his August bill had gone up by 39% compared to last August’s.

This is a very, very common theme in many of the calls and emails I’ve been receiving from people sharing their hydro headaches. Ontario residents are jumping through hoops to live within the restrictions the government has boxed them. Yet still their rates go up.

“I live in a high-rise apartment building and not once in 10 years have I turned on my heating or air-conditioning,” writes Linda Skarott, who previously worked as an accountant for Ontario Hydro. “Yes, I’m cold in winter, but nothing that extra sweaters and blankets won’t fix. And yes, I’m hot in summer so I frequent malls and libraries on the hottest days.”

One caller from Kemptville - who himself had energy woes - told me a truly sad story about a woman who was always going to the mall daily to keep cool. When he offered to buy her an A/C unit and even install it himself, she declined, afraid of what it would do to her bills.

“In six short years, our monthly bill has gone from $160 per month to this last bill being $470,” says Warren from Cambridge. “This, even as our family does everything right. Laundry on the weekend, dishwasher at night, extra lights turned off. It is affecting our overall family health with the constant frustration of rising bills.”

“Every bill I pay three times the usage in other charges such as delivery and so on,” writes Raj Maharajh. “I no longer use my house A/C.”

I’ve heard these same issues from hundreds of people. They’ve stopped using the stove. They no longer turn the heat on. Their family schedules have become slaves to the off-peak times. It’s almost like the government thinks it’s not their job to serve the people, but that it’s the people’s job to serve them and their agenda.

“Most have no idea what it feels like to skip meals so that your kids can eat,” writes in Caroline Campbell, who’s stressed out by hydro bills. She’s a mother of five who’s had to stop working as a nurse due to degenerative pain. “They have no idea what it is like to do all this and still not be able to get by.”

Real people. Real hardships. And it’s all directly caused by lousy government decisions.

https://www.torontosun.com/2016/10/19/people-rearrange-their-lives-just-to-bring-hydro-usage-down



We believe skyrocketing electricity prices under Premier Kathleen Wynne and the Liberals are the most important issue facing Ontarians heading into the next provincial election.

As National Editor Anthony Furey’s “Hydro Headaches” series, which began in the Sunday Sun reveals, Ontarians are being held hostage by rising energy bills, many forced to freeze in their homes in winter and swelter inside them in summer, for fear of ever rising hydro costs.

Of all the wasteful blunders the Liberals have committed in their 13 years in power — eHealth, Ornge, cancelled gas plants — the worst have been in the energy field, including their mad dash into unreliable and expensive wind and solar power, which wasn’t needed to close Ontario’s coal-fired electricity plants.

Out of control electricity prices are an assault on the middle class.
They have cost hundreds of thousands of Ontarians their jobs, as businesses close or flee for lower-priced jurisdictions.

They endanger home ownership for seniors on fixed incomes.
They are driving many Ontarians into energy poverty, where they spend more than 10% of their income to power their homes.
Energy poverty forces people to decide whether to eat, or light and heat their homes.

It’s a disgrace in a province where a thriving manufacturing sector was built on the slogan of Sir Adam Beck, the founder of Ontario’s hydro system, to deliver “Power at Cost”.

Today, under the Liberals, we have an electricity system where prices are skyrocketing while we have a huge electricity surplus — an indication of how completely they have distorted the market.
The Liberals have been repeatedly criticized by the auditor general for making wrong-headed energy decisions costing billions of dollars.

But when Ontarians ask the Liberals for help, or complain about ill treatment from Hydro One, which the Liberals have put beyond public scrutiny by selling 60% of it to the private sector, they’re ignored.
Or sent form letters dismissing their concerns.

Enough is enough. It’s time to hold the Liberals accountable, to make them explain how they will get us out of the mess they’ve created.

And if there is no plan, to make them suffer the electoral consequences.

https://www.torontosun.com/2016/10/18/lets-expose-wynnes-hydro-horror-show

Agree every single word. That's why we need to band together and vote the phucker out


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[Waxed]

Agree every single word. That's why we need to band together and vote the phucker out


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My store's hydro bill tripled within a year. Bastards.

 

[Copyright]

The truth comes out on favoritism.

The head of the Ontario Medical Association and a property developer paid $5,500 each to have lunch with Premier Kathleen Wynne as a fundraiser for a posh women’s golf club two years ago, the Toronto Sun has learned.

Wynne’s wife, Jane Rounthwaite, is a member of the club and was on the board of directors of the Ladies Golf Club of Toronto (LGCT) at the time the club auctioned off the lunches.

The premier’s office confirmed the money raised went to a charitable foundation that maintains “heritage land” at the golf club (which charges $18,500 to join and $4,830 in annual fees).

Fair enough, the premier and the Liberal Party didn’t profit from the deal. There’s nothing wrong or illegal about what she did.
It’s just inappropriate for her to use her position to raise funds for such an organization.

It’s an exclusive club and average folk can’t afford to play there. If the club can’t afford to pay the upkeep of the land, they should hike their fees.
Selling access to the premier in such a fashion to raise money is, well, a bit tacky.

Two people made tying bids on the lunches — so she met with both — raising $11,000 for the club. One bidder was Virginia Walley, head of the OMA.
A spokesman for the OMA confirmed Walley had breakfast with Wynne in 2014 as a result of her successful bid. Walley is also a member of the club.

“The OMA reimbursed Dr. Walley for the amount that was bid on the breakfast,” OMA spokesman Nadia Daniell-Colarossi told me by email.
“Dr. Walley took the opportunity of the breakfast to raise the status of the contract between the province and Ontario’s doctors and to discuss general health-care issues. All of this occurred within the confines of the lobbying legislation in place at the time,” she said.

This comes after months of “pay for access” scandals that have documented how cabinet ministers routinely wined and dined representatives of special interest groups.

Ministers were set huge fundraising goals and were then expected to hobnob with corporate and union bigwigs and others who paid for face time at cocktail parties and fancy receptions.

In this case, of course, the money went to the golf course’s heritage foundation and not to party coffers. Still, it was a purchase of one-on-one time with the premier — something a Wynne spokesman says is “not a practice anymore.”

“Premier Wynne attends numerous events across Ontario each year on her personal time, to raise funds for a variety of charitable causes,” said Wynne spokesman Jenn Beaudry.

“In this particular occasion, Premier Wynne took part in two events in 2014 to raise funds for the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Ladies Golf Club of Toronto — North America’s only remaining golf club established by women for women,” she said.

“Funds raised through the charitable event were donated to the Ada Mackenzie Heritage Fund, which is used to preserve the heritage buildings on the golf course since the property is over 90 years old.”

There’s now a brutal deadlock in the OMA’s contract talks, so this may not have been money well spent on Walley’s part.
The other purchaser was Michael Rice of Rice Commercial Group, described on its website as a “prominent commercial and industrial developer.”
The company manages a portfolio of more than 320 hectares (800 acres) of commercial and industrial land in the GTA.
Rice did not respond to a request for comment Thursday.

Look, politics is very much a “you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours” kind of thing. We’ve seen it also play out in U.S. politics, with Hillary Clinton’s so-called “pay for play” scandal involving the Clinton Foundation.

Here’s a hint: Next time someone asks for a donation, premier, just give ’em a Tim Hortons gift card.

About the Ladies Golf Club of Toronto:

• It was founded in 1924. The driving force behind the course was Ada Mackenzie, one of the best female golfers in North America and England at that time. She won five Canadian “Open” Amateur Championships and five Canadian “Closed” Amateur Championships.
• The course was founded because women had difficulty getting tee times at other clubs in the city.
• At that time, women generally could only have social memberships in golf clubs in association with their husbands or fathers.
• Women get priority for tee-times at the Thornhill club. Men are welcome as guests or to play seasonally as guest card holders.
— Source: Ladies Golf Club of Toronto website

 

[Anto]

Brings us up to this subject.


Free speech clashes with gender identity

https://www.torontosun.com/2016/10/23/free-speech-clashes-with-gender-identity

 

[XXXjoe]

My store's hydro bill tripled within a year. Bastards.

Wait till they start charging us for another fuck up.


Last week, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne boasted that a new deal to purchase hydroelectric power from Quebec would save Ontarians $70 million over seven years in power costs.
Now, the bad news.
This week, the opposition Tories discovered that in the government’s public accounts for 2015-16, the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) reported a “previously unrecognized actuarial loss and past service costs” of just over $80 million.

Keep reading...https://www.torontosun.com/2016/10/25/ontarians-zapped-by-hydro-costs-again