I doubt that Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak has ever met a neoconservative nostrum that he doesn't like. The latest pontification from the lad who would be Premier comes from his 'bold' assertion that Ontario must subsidize electricity costs for manufacturing if the province is to keep and attract jobs.
Claiming his plan would be cost-effective (simply end the 'subsidies' to wind and solar power) the lad is sure that Ontario would thus win at least 300,000 manufacturing jobs from the five million new jobs that the Americans are going to get. (Sorry, Tim didn't deign to explain where either figure comes from, such is the ardent faith of the free market advocate).
Also missing from his strange figures is acknowledgement that Ontario currently offers heavy industrial discounting under its Industrial Incentive Electricity Progrtam. Nor does he explain that despite tax rates that are lower than those of the U.S., business is sitting on its profits instead of creating and retaining jobs.
And how would he deal with pesky unions who have an unseemly habit of wanting living wages and benefits? Well, as he has previously announced, a flourish of the legislative pen would enact right-to-work laws, thinly disguised as 'workplace democracy' that would eventually end unions in the workplace.
A bold man of vision. A leader who is not afraid to make the hard decisions. Neither of those descriptions will ever apply to young Tim.
As Twain said, Lorne, "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
ReplyDeleteIf he had the power to see into the future, Owen, surely Hudak was Twain's inspiration for that observation.
DeleteSo very true Lorne...CONS stealing from (and hating on) the welfare-POOR, to give to (and love on) the corporate, 'wealth-creating'--(for who?? Oh, yes, why, themselves...) welfare-RICH. They try to completely suck the very life out of LIFE.
ReplyDeleteWithout question, Linda, the Con definition of life bears little resemblance to that of most people.
DeleteI can't never figure out quite why ignorant, barely-literate fools like this clown have an almost genetic aversion to alternative energy sources. I mean I know why they are rabidly anti-union (as ignorant and stupid as these opinions are, I can at least follow when they are thinking) but this grudge against new forms of power makes little sense to me.
ReplyDeleteI wonder, Kirby, if part of the answer lies in the widespread conviction among the extreme right-wing that climate change is some sort of elaborate fabrication by 'the left.' Of course, 'the left' also includes about 99% of the world's climate scientists. Talk about a conspiracy of unimaginable proportions!
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