Or Doug Ford…….
Ford said while the pace has been fast, he doesn’t intend to let up, noting many past leaders told him their mistake was not moving fast enough to enact change.
More from Ontario’s Premier and his comments on the crazy year that was and what lies ahead can be found here.
It is past time that conservative politicians play nice guy when they gain power. For too long, leftist governments when losing power, leave massive bureaucracies and programs behind. The incoming conservatives then trim and adjust a few things for a few years, only to lose power and return the system basically intact to the leftists. The leftists then carry on more or less where they left off. Leftist policies, programs, and bureaucracies should be nothing but smoking ruins at the end of the first year of conservative power. Conservatives would then have three years to prove to the electorate that conditions have improved as a result of their policies, and they could win a subsequent election. As it is, they keep their enemies and lose their friends, and the next election as well. It is time to learn from past mistakes.
I remember what it was like in Saskatchewan during the early 1980s. One reason Blakeney was turfed out of office was because of all the Crown corporations that the provincial government supported.
Then Grant Devine became premier. Apparently, the Conservatives reviewed the books of various companies that received government funding and they began making a list of those which should be cut off. One company they looked at employed over 200 people and they backed off on it because they feared a public backlash. The party had advertised itself as open for business as well as cutting government spending but it wouldn’t have looked good if all the employees of that company would have to go on the dole.
The company shuddered along for a few years by being taken over by private firm, but, when it looked at the books, put it back on the market. Eventually, it was bought by a different outfit and is now its subsidiary.
” The incoming conservatives then trim and adjust a few things for a few years, only to lose power and return the system basically intact to the leftists.”
Kind of like Harper did. Other than a few positive changes Harper made like elimination the Wheat Board and the Firearms Registry (which is being reinstated by the back door), after three years you would never know Harper and the Conservatives had been in power.
It does not look Scheer is the Conservative type to clean up Trudeau’s mess either. It is time for Scheer to call bullshit on the Paris Accord and AGW in general.
That is exactly what happens. This is the reason we should work hard to minimize the taxes we pay to the government.
“Kind of like Harper did. Other than a few positive changes Harper made like elimination the Wheat Board and the Firearms Registry (which is being reinstated by the back door), after three years you would never know Harper and the Conservatives had been in power.”
Exactly, Ken. Govern as if you’re going to get only one kick at the power can.
“It does not look Scheer is the Conservative type to clean up Trudeau’s mess either. It is time for Scheer to call bullshit on the Paris Accord and AGW in general.”
Trouble is, the Great Grinning Putz (GGP) and his sheep all raised their little hands to support turdo la doo on the Paris horseshit. The GGP has done the impossible – he has painted himself into multiple Liberal corners at the same time.
Brad Wall is THE perfect example of a do nothing Conservative.
I have been saying this for decades. Not one conservative government has ever reduced the size or cost of government. They are and have been liberal lite, nothing more. I left the conservative party as an active member decades ago as there were very few conservatives there.
Give them H Doug and clean up the rotten mess quickly.
He needs to be ruthless with cuts. The public debt servicing is the 3rd highest line item of the budget.
Every time a neo-Marxist union f**kstick complains he needs to state: ‘That SOB wants to saddle children with massive debt by enriching themselves with taxpayer money.” Every single time.
He needs to attack the media at every press conference and call out their lies and omissions.
And someone needs to jap slap Paul Wells till that pussy starts crying like the girlie man he is.
The one quote in the linked article that stood out for me was the observation that Ford had been told by previous politicians that their biggest regret is that they didn’t move fast enough when they had the opportunity to change things.
So true. Harper was, IMNSHO, a good man who was far too strategically cautious, hoping that a straight and uneventful course would bring more people in Canada around to small-c “conservative” ways of thinking.
Fat chance. The moment The Hair That Walks Like A Man™ gained the PMO, the course corrections were hard and fast. Junior’s managed to sprinkle economic insecticide over the energy industry while chasing the chimera of green everything, not only driving Alberta into a totally government-induced recession but badly damaging Canada’s finances as well — finances that are actually needed if one wants a reasonably healthy welfare state. I don’t think Trudeau’s ever read or understood the parable of the Goose that laid the Golden Egg.
Sadly, Quebec and just enough of Ontario to make the difference will probably re-elect him, and we’ll have four more years of shadow-PM Gerald Butts running the country (into the dirt).
Enjoy the decline.
“Faster Pussycat!” Kil!! Kill!
I’m of legal age for whiskey, voting and loving. Now the next election is two years away, and my love life ain’t getting much better, so how about some of that one-hundred-percent!
Oh, you’re cute… like a velvet glove cast in iron.
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Who gets the reference without looking it up?
Who gets the reference without looking it up?
The one’s a classic, isn’t it?
Give that man a cigar
The things one gets to see on TCM Underground…..
Ok Secrets contained in the second server at Benghazi w/nuke stuff.
Recovered by the Benghazi team, wasn’t suppose to happen. One tech guy got a look at it. Debriefed and confiscated. Here it comes in 6 tweets
Take a deep breath…. 1/6
https://mobile.twitter.com/_Montana_Bound_/status/1051230784986714112
It would interesting if it’s true. HRC makes Lady Macbeth look like Mother Theresa.
Exactly! Could you imagine if Harper had the balls to de-fund the CBC and roll those funds to the CAF, roll back gun control legislation to that of 1867 (as in none), pull us out of many UN “organizations”, severely limit immigration to zero for at least 50 years (when a big chunk of your population are chronically unemployed–it’s unethical to let in people to take the few jobs that are around or go on the dole), de-fund the Bilingualism and Heritage Department (or whatever it’s called these days) and roll those funds to the CAF, close down ALL Human Rights Tribunals and enact legislation to make it illegal for provinces to have tribunals outside of actual municipal, provincial and federal courts, recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, enact legislation to ensure the pipelines to BC and to Nova Scotia are built before the end of his tenure. Once all that had been accomplished–pass the leadership reins to Mackay who has a strong following in the Maritimes, is well-liked, is handsome, is athletic, has cute little toddlers he could put in front of cameras during an election campaign, and has a smoking hot, “exotic” wife. The Conservatives could’ve had a very long run. Especially with Kenney in the wings ready to take over once Mackay had his shot.
As marvelous as that dream would be, I fear that at this point there are simply too many voters in the urban progressive enclaves of Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver to ever allow it. In the US it’s all about turnout; there are way more conservative voters than lib-left, but the lib-left is better at getting/stealing the vote. Here? I’m pretty certain we’re actually outnumbered, and a majority Conservative government following your road map would motivate the screeching autists in the big lib-left cities to vote en masse and en banc.
Please tell President Trump.
Faster.
Reform Education.
Build the Wall.
Clean up all the DOJ.
What you do,do quickly. Biblical
Canada has been broken and it will never be fixed. The people don’t want responsibility.
Bingo. Every once in a while Canada jerks to the center, but we are a socialist country, tilting ever more to the left as more and more “socialists” are imported into the country. Even Alberta is predominantly a socialist province, previously buoyed by a large tax base built on oil and gas.
I’m partly beginning to hope Trudeau gets in again just so I can witness the ugly implosion of the federation and the destruction of his daddy’s/quebec’s country in my lifetime. The election of Scheer would only slightly delay the inevitable Venezualing of this shithole.
Regrettably, you are correct Old White Guy. We are well past the point of no return. The bottom beckons. It will be centuries before the mindset is changed and wealth creation made a top priority with politicians elected to promote individualism.