Flaherty blows chunks at Ontario... again

The Federal Minister of Pissing-Ontarians-Off, is at it again. He took a bit of a hiatus in his McGuinty bashing but is back to re-establish his place as the Con dope of Harperville.

A TD economist has postulated that Ontario will be a have-not province under Canada's Equalization Payments system by 2010. The current program of making poor people as unhappy as rich folks, was rejigged in 2006 by the then Con Minister of Finance by the name of... err...Flaherty. Now Flabberty figures that someone broke his system because Ontario's current industrial infrastructure problems and Alberta and Newfoundland's oil money has shown some flaws in his logic.

The real flaws are in his brain.

The real story behind this Equalization brew-ha-ha is that the artificially heightened price of oil has boosted the tax resources of the provinces that mine for fermented dinosaurs and reduced the taxing power of those provinces with a industrial base.

So what does Flabberty say about this? "Action needs to be taken by the Province of Ontario to join us, to partner with us to encourage economic growth in that province." Is the way he talks about Ontario and its Premier the way to encourage partnership? The action that Flabberty wants Ontario to take is to reduce corporate taxes. That is an utterly stupid thing to say on two fronts. First, reducing corporate taxes only helps corporations who make a profit, like the banks and oil companies, who fund the Con party. It is interesting to note that if the Ontario government were to reduce corporate taxes they would move towards have not status even faster.

So what is a government to do? If Ontario is classified as have-not then they will get funding from the Equalization pool, a pool that they contribute $20 billion per year to. Essentially they would be funding themselves. Not good.

The alternative is the wipe out Equalization completely, let Ontario keep its $20 billion and use it to cut tax rates. But, I hear the cry now, that would not be fair to Quebec and PEI, two of the most parasitic parts of Canada. Guess what? Who cares. It is time for Ontario to quit being the whipping boy for Flabberty and his fellow Cons.

The only winner in this battle between Ontario and the Feds is the people of Ontario. Owing to his big foul mouth, there is no way that Flabberty will ever become the leader of the provincial Cons or Premier of Ontario.

By the way, a word to the wise about economists. It is said that if you ask 20 economists a question you will be 21 answers.

Poilievre, The New Screamer, screws up another attack

Pierre Poilievre, the MP for Nepean-Carleton, is getting to be more and more of an embarrassment for Canada and Canadians. He skips in the Commons and cusses like a sailor; but he does it in a tailored suit so that no-one will possibly notice.

He acts like a jack-ass with an IQ of a dung-beetle.

On the day that the Ontario government released its latest budget, the "Perfect PP" travelled to Toronto to be the mouthpiece of Harpers latest slagging of the Ontario government. I guess that "Pretty-boy" Flaherty, the federal Minister of Money, who got the ball started on this slag-fest, decided that maybe he was hurting his image in Ontario (as he tries to wrest the provincial Tory leadership from John Tory) so Harper assigned a disposable Ontario MP, Perfect PP, to carry on the attacks.

So Perfect PP gets to Toronto and offers to be 12 lines above the fold to any journalist he could find.

McGuinty is a dope, Perfect PP yells. Ontario is the last place in Canada anyone would want to invest, he screams. God will smite the non-Conservatives in this province of heathens. He finishes with, That's just my personal opinion, of course.

He then strays a bit from the PMO-prepared script and, boy, is he in trouble now!

In a post-budget press conference McGuinty was asked about the Federal Immigration proposal currently being force-fed in Ottawa. A descendant of Irish famine-era immigrants, his response was that, "...we were [unskilled but] looking for opportunity and we brought with us a solid work ethic."

The door was open for Perfect PP to pounce and he jumped in with all five appendages but... unfortunately his brain was not in sync with his mouth.

"The Premier had no business commenting on immigration," blurts Perfect PP. He went on to describe immigration as an exclusively federal jurisdiction. Guess he didn't fully read his illustrated copy of the Constitution Act of 1867 that states that immigration is a federal responsibility but also states that provinces can set immigration policy. In fact Quebec has a major say in immigration and other provinces are trying to get the same concession from Ottawa.

What was his come-back to this mis-speak... Aahhh, what time does my government jet leave for Ottawa?

Where, you might ask, was the other major CON from Ottawa and why was he not volunteered to go to Toronto instead of the PP? Well, it seems that John "the Screamer" Baird was busy setting up a date to a dog show or something with the PM's missus.

Randall Denley loves John Tory

It appears that the Ottawa Citizen's senior opinion guy, Randall Denley, is still working on becoming the head communication guy for the Ontario Conservative party.

In his writing today he tells us that John Tory, head of the Ontario PCs is misunderstood, underestimated as a leader and not in the same pit-bull-league as Ontario Premier Dalton "Bates" McGuinty.

Take this quote from the article by Denley: "Few Canadian politicians had as bad a year in 2007 as John Tory. The PC leader worked three years for his crack at the Ontario premiership, seemed to have it in his grasp, fell into a Liberal trap, got his butt kicked, and even lost his own seat."

Cry me a fricken river, Randall. This the same John Tory who destroyed the campaign of Conservative Kim Campbell when he, as campaign manager, authorized some of the worst attack ads ever seen in Canada. This is the same John Tory who managed the campaigns of Ontario Conservatives under Larry Grossman (who?) and some other guy, who's name I cannot even recall. This is the same John Tory who headed the expansion of the CFL - no, hang on a bit - they actually lost a team in that period.

The faith-based funding issue was not a trap set by McGuinty. It was Tory who blew it by not understanding the fundamental law of political campaigns: Never release trial balloons DURING an election!

And, by the way, Tory didn't"lose his own seat". He never had the seat to begin with.