Wynneing!

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How deep, Señorita Wynne?

After Premier Kathleen Wynne rammed through new legislation hiking the minimum wage by 21 per cent at the start of 2018, without conducting any impact assessment and going against her old pledge to not raise it above inflation and giving only six-months notice, the CBC had the perfect news report to whip up proletarian anger at the business community, which would deflect blame from the unpopular Liberal premier.

44 Replies to “Wynneing!”

  1. Remind me to patronize Tim Horton’s again, that is until they cave to another more PC garbage.

  2. If a small cut in tax revenue that decreases government revenues or a small cut in government subsidies is outrageous and immoral, but large government imposed policies that reduces the profitability of small businesses and results in fewer jobs for low income citizens is social justice….then you might be a progressive.
    Between unnecessarily burdensome regulations, skyrocketing electricity costs and ill-thought out minimum wage hikes/labor laws, Ontario must be one of the worst places in Canada to do (non-government assisted) business. Just wait until the unfunded pension liabilities, health costs of aging citizens and high debt costs start to really bite, businesses will think of 2018 as part of the good old days. The Ontario Liberals are really setting up the province for a viscious economic cycle. More online business, more automation and changing head offices to other provinces might be the only legitimate option for Ontario entrepreneurs. There’s also the black market, of course.

  3. I’m getting to the point where Wynne and the CBC could start blaming “capitalist running dogs” and I wouldn’t even blink.
    Ontario voters keep choosing poorly, and it will get a lot worse before real pain forces them to think clearly.

  5. Ontarians repeatedly voted for the Liberals – they deserve to get everything that’s coming to them, good and hard. And before any conservatives whine that they didn’t vote for her and don’t deserve this, let me point out that your moronic party has voted for a series of incapable goobers as leaders of the Ontario PC party. The PCs haven’t had a useful chief since Mike Harris, and that’s all on the conservatives. Crash and burn, Ontario. It looks good on ya.

  6. There was nothing wrong with Hudak. In fact, Ontarians totally screwed up when they voted for Libs last time. Hudak was a very go8d choice. His campaign was not 100% and Libs are good at exploiting small missteps. The bigger issue was unions. Ontario exists for the benefit of unions.

  7. And that’s why TRUMP needs to end NAFTA and the Autopact. That is necessary for Morontariowe to either go belly up, or, to get slapped in the face with reality.
    Fck Morontariowe

  8. I was contemplating what “profitable” means. Technically, if you are not losing money each year, you are profitable enough to stay in business; zero yearly income will not put you out of business. But, depending on the person, I guess there is a non zero amount that they want each and every month/year/whatever. A few may be willing to stay in business at pure break even. More at $5000-40000 a year. Even more at six figures plus a year.
    This is after tax, after payroll, after debt payments, after utilities, pure take home numbers we are talking here. We can all agree though, that no one is going to bleed without end, without eventually having to close down. If your business generates $1mil, but costs $1mil to run, you are break even.

  9. I seem to recall the last increase was well above the official inflation rate and Chairman Wynne said something about future increases being tied to CPI. The Jan 18 increase is 20.6% and the next increase Jan 19 would be a further 7.1 %. These are way above any inflation rates.
    According to Wynne today any adjustments after 2019 will be tied to CPI. Right, believe that and you might believe anything; hopefully after 2018 Wynne will be history. Still she will remain the worst Premier in Ont history.

  15. liberal socialists were stupid yesterday, are stupid today and will be stupid tomorrow. F ing work for a living before you try and tell someone how to run a business.

  16. The $15 minimum wage is now bait. If she gets in again, she’ll either scuttle it or stretch it out over her mandate (heh–“mandate”–she hasn’t had one of those for a while). It will probably be “later,” then the next election promise. This will work because Liberal voters are stupid and ill-equipped to vote, and thanks to Trudeau, they’ll all be stoned.

  17. There was a time not long ago we in the USA were suffering under 0bama and were jealous of Canada’s decent PM: Stephen Harper. Things can change rather quickly.

  18. *
    hey, premier wynndfarm… how about a maximum wage law
    that does something about ontario power generation’s ceo
    making $8,000,000 per year before stock options?
    *

  19. We used to go out for dinner or pick up takeout about once a week. The year is still young, but my intention this is is to drastically cut down on that. It is one of few luxuries we can live without. If enough other people do this, there will be a lot of small businesses going out of business.

  20. We recently bought an “instant pot.” Since we usually ate out because we are bored with cooking, or just didn’t want to, now we can have a full meal from frozen in 1/2 hour at a fraction of the cost. It makes good stuff, too. Should pay for itself in about a month.

  22. I disagree,there was everything wrong with Tim Hudak, including the fact he couldn’t win an election. Too many conservatives fail to recognize that their leader of the day may not be electable,and they fall back on excuse,”it was the voter’s fault”.
    No,it was the Party’s and the candidate’s fault,their job was to inspire the voters to get out and elect them,and they failed to do do,like with any other enterprise,THEY failed and have no one to blame but themselves. When you produce a lousy product,don’t blame the customers for not buying it.
    I remember a few weeks before the election,Hudak promised to cut civil service jobs,thereby alienating about two million voters in Ontario,and ensuring his defeat.It was incredibly stupid for a candidate for Premier of Ontario,with it’s ONE MILLION provincial civil servants,and tens of thousands more CS’s in the federal service and civic employees, to tell them he might lay some of them off.
    But Hudak did that.
    Same attitude seems to be extant on too many Conservative blogs,where they excoriate the citizens for electing Trudeau,then offer as an alternative Joe Clark 2. But when he suffers a big defeat in 2019,it will be the voters fault,again.
    Conservatives need to move into the 21st century and realize they aren’t running in Diefenbaker’s time any more. The CPC has to take ownership of their candidate and policies and quit trying to blame the voters,who will often stay with the devil they know unless an attractive alternative is presented. There isn’t much sense planning for a common sense revolution to sweep the CPC into power when most of the voters don’t have any common sense. So figure out a strategy that will work,and employ it .
    The CPC seems to believe that one day the public will experience a mass epiphany and they’ll vote in another Conservative government amidst rainbows and the hallelujah chorus and we’ll all sing together in harmonious bliss.
    Nope, we’ll probably have just another four years of the Liberals after 2019,while the Conservatives continue to blame the voters.

  23. “The CPC seems to believe that one day the public will experience a mass epiphany and they’ll vote in another Conservative government amidst rainbows and the hallelujah chorus and we’ll all sing together in harmonious bliss.”
    When Quebec becomes disenchanted with the LPC they’re as likely to vote NDP as they are CPC.
    NDP were the official opposition 2 elections ago. The CPC better game up or they could come in third.

  24. Are you suggesting that the Conservatives lie to get elected, or that they don’t reduce the size of the civil service?

  25. Oh, come on. Your post is nothing but hind-site. How do we know Hudak is not going to win the election until after the election? I would not exactly call Wynne (or McGuinty) attractive candidates or sure winners. Yes, Hudak did err in talking about layoffs (did he actually talk about layoffs or just reducing the size of the public service? I cannot offhand recall, and there certainly are enough people poised to retire that reducing the size would not have been that threatening to individuals.) Elections matter and Hudak made a couple of errors — Libs are great at taking advantage of any misstep.
    Joe Clark managed to get the top job, and Justin is no Pierre, so I do not see the scenario you portray as being inevitable. I also do not think Scheer is “Joe Clark II”, even though he has not yet had a breakthrough in the polls. And yes, to some extent the problem is the voter’s foolishness. In the case of the CPC, Canada had an excellent PM in Harper and the VOTERS were duped by media, foreign money and relentless specious attacks. Liberals love to portray Conservatives generally as bigots, so they trotted out a narrative on that one also and voters fell for it.
    It would be nice, for sure, to have stellar candidates who are sure winners, but it is very difficult to know who that is in advance and also to satisfy everyone. I liked Kellie Leitch and Chis Alexander. Not a lot of other people did. Actually, I think Liberals thought they had a winner in Ignatieff. Look at their big error in dumping Rae/Ignatieff for Dion at that earlier point. So, in short, choosing a leader who is a winner is the goal but more easily said than done. Political dynamics change over time and often it is some error from “the devil they know” that causes the downfall. I do blame the voters who would elect someone so mindless as Trudeau and many continue to support him even with the demonstrated level of shallowness he has shown. The voters just are not very astute.

  26. At this point, given the mess Liberals have made, it might be worse if the PCs win in Ontario. If they take power right before the economic pain really hurts then the PCs, not the Liberals, will be cast as the villains who caused the collapse and as heartless for having to cut programs and jobs. The Ontario Liberals will avoid accountability and responsibility.
    You know what helps out the SaskParty? The words “remember what the NDP did to this province when they were in power.” Before that the Sask NDP scared voters with “remember Grant Devine and his band of crooks.”
    Timing and blame shifting is important in the ugly game of politics.

  28. So, the ideal strategy, might actually be RUN NO ONE? I like it. Get up in front of everyone, and just tell them straight up;
    McGuinty and Wynne have ensured years of economic pain for Ontario.
    We could have avoided this, had you elected us instead of them.
    To fix the ruin they have brought on this province, will require even more than Mike Harris had to accomplish.
    As the situation stands, we refuse to have anything to do with the mess that you have voted for yourselves.
    You can elect either the NDP, or the Liberals (again), and in 4 years let us know how that worked out for you.
    Drop microphone, exit stage right.

  29. if the conservative could only find a bigger bible to thump, then all would be well. We wouldn’t need some one as stupid as hudak or tory to loose the erection, JC his self could then loose it!!!

  31. Heh. Yep. At this point winning an Ontario provincial election is like winning a flaming bag of shit or a live grenade.

  33. Don Morris, you are wrong in blaming the CPC for selecting Hudak as he would have been a good premier. I have worked many campaigns for both Federal and Provincial conservatives. Hudak stated he would reduce the public employee by 100,000 through ATTRITION not lay offs. The major hurdle for the Conservatives is the powerful unchanging leftists in Canada. I have spoken to 1,000s of people during my years of canvassing door to door. Time after time it is the same, “I am a teacher and will always vote for the Liberals.” end of story. Harris, besides being a great guy, was fortunate to follow Bob Rae who managed to get the left to hate him with his Rae Days and rapid huge debts so Mike won but is hated by the left to this day. That won’t happen again. When you get the class teacher telling their students to get mommy and daddy to vote for the Liberals because I will be fired if Mr. Hudak gets in and can’t teach you any more you are done. John Tory lost the instant he said he would fund all religious schools. People told us at the door they didn’t want our tax money supporting muslim schools and he is red Tory from Davis.
    There is 1.3 million public employees in Ontario. Add in the retirees, contractors, family and friends plus new immigrants like the muslims that are told to vote Liberal and do so and you have a massive block already. Rural Ontario is conservative but the huge cities are solid Liberal. Even Winston Churchill lost to the left.
    I have socialist friends that simply refuse to look at the staggering violence of muslims in Europe and coming here. No matter what the reality of the terrorism whether a Ramavan or shooting, rapes, sex-slaving they do not want to hear it and vehemently call be a racist bigot and islamophobe.
    That video on California paralleled Ontario perfectly. Now part time lecturers in our colleges are being unionized.
    My wife and I are so glad we sold our house 2 years ago and just rent now.

  34. “But Hudak did that.”
    because the hard right AMERICAN think tank that got his attention told him what to say.
    as was the plan to continue to tell the chipmunk what to say and do if he won the election.
    it scared the bejeezuz out of ontariowe voters.

  36. Meh. Hudak wasn’t going to win, and I’m tired of people blaming his loss on the 20 minutes where he turned to the right.
    Ontario is too far gone. It’s Canada’s black hole/Greece. It will get ugly.

  37. look fool, my PC rep showed me a few years ago just how effed up these religious A-holes are, period.

  38. The premier of Ontario is your basic socialist.
    The premier of Ontario because of who it is can do and say stupid, idiotic, positively nonsense because she/it expects that there is no opposition since she/it is one of the victims.
    You can’t oppose lest you be homophobic, non-inclusive, far right, extra far right, extreme right, so far right that you can’t see nothing and really you should roll over and play dead.
    Yeah, you should be dead, you have no right to an opinion other than agree with the socialist dogma.
    The premier of Ontario is a national socialist, what she says goes or you are a fascist.
    The Communist Broadcasting Corporation must of necessity support national socialists, after all, its those that extract money from the working stiffs and then give billion dollars to the CeeBeeCee as though it is their money.
    They don’t need to lift a finger, try not to pay.
    End of story.

  39. Yes,lie to get elected,just like the Party of Success does,then reduce the civil service through attrition.
    Or sit forever in Opposition.

  40. No,it is hardly hindsight. Me and every political observer at the time knew Hudak was dead in the water the minute he made that statement,that he would reduce the civil service.
    And again,you,like too many Conservatives,blame the voters. You just don’t seem to get it. Millions of people prosper under Liberal rule,especially those millions working for the governments,why in hell would they vote for someone who said he’d lay off government employees?
    And how damned stupid is a candidate to do that? The fault is Hudak’s,not the voters.
    And if Scheer doesn’t start to show some chutzpah,and quit being such a nice family man with six kids and turn into an aggressive politician who can inspire the right, it’s Trudeau and the LPC winning, again.
    Perhaps the CPC electoral team should go visit Jean Chretien with a bottle of brandy and get the old bugger drunk. He might just give them some insight into how to win an election campaign.
    Btw, we can all thank Stephen Harper for not forcing the CRTC to put Sun-TV on the mandatory viewing list,or whatever they call it,so now we don’t have one single TV network in this Country that isn’t Left wing.

  41. Exactly and well said in every comment.
    Lets face it, the Laurentian Elite cabal have this country in the bag.

  43. the provinces and the country will have to suck like Venezuela before the average Canadian will even start to think just how bad things are getting. it takes a long time for socialism to destroy a wealthy country.

  44. Right on, Don. I’m dismayed that Conservatives think the route to victory is being a red tory. Mike Harris wasn’t red and won twice with a decided majority. So far, Kenny looks like a winner and he’s not leaning left. Harper eventually lost because he didn’t tack to the right, letting the CBC run roughshod and letting Sun news go down in flames.

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