Dalton McGuinty: "In the 220-year history of our legislature, no House has ever voted to find a fellow member in contempt, let alone impose a punishment for contempt."
"Well, hello?" says Christina Blizzard of the Toronto Sun.
"In 220 years, no government has so blatantly and wantonly piddled $230 million down the drain to scrap two power plants in order to save two Liberal seats.
The contempt motion relates to documents relating to the cancellation of the Oakville gas plant. McGuinty's campaign team cancelled plants in Mississauga and Oakville purely for political advantage. The premier tried to turn the contempt motion on the opposition parties.
"These attacks, these threats, this heavy-handed, unprecedented process - using the full force of the legislature against one MPP - these are decidedly not in keeping with the standards and traditions we seek to uphold," he told reporters.
Oh, and just what "standards" and "traditions" would those be?
That Liberals have the divine right to squander tax dollars at will? They have the right to give untendered contracts to their partisan buddies - and get away with it?
That they have the right to throw away $1 billion on an eHealth boondoggle?
They waste hundreds of millions of public dollars on an outrageous plan to privatize the air ambulance system - and they're not supposed to be held accountable?
Finally, now we have a minority government, the other two parties have the clout to actually call the government to account for this disgraceful spending on gas plants - and according to McGuinty that's "heavy-handed."
I don't think so." [see the full comment at: http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/straighttalk/archives/2012/10/20121003-104130.html].
For myself, I am utterly astounded by the arrogance of the man. Even when he is standing up to his knees in the above mentioned mess, and more, he has the audacity to point the finger at others! I am even more astounded by voters who, like those in Vaughan, who continue to support him.
I will admit, however, that he is politically savvy. He knows, for example, that if you pander to the immigrant vote by giving job preferences to new comers, or "pecker cheques" to child-bearing parents, the result is going to be votes.
The problem is that those who do not qualify for such largess are required to pay for it, anyway--like single persons (particularly in the GLBT community) and seniors. On the other hand, these two groups are not likely to vote for McGuinty anyhow.
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