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02-06-2017, 08:29 AM
than a Liberal cabinet minister?
Hey, kids, in honour of Ontario Liberal cabinet minister Liz Sandals’ now apologized for remark that GO train riders are unexceptional compared to top Ontario public servants, let’s play a new game today!
I call it: Are you smarter than a Liberal cabinet minister? Ready? Here we go!
1. When giving $2.5 million to teacher unions to defray their costs of negotiating with you do you:
(a) Question why the government is subsidizing teacher unions
(b) Demand receipts
(c) Not demand receipts because you know what pizza costs
2. When Toronto Mayor John Tory tells you he wants to put road tolls on the Gardiner Expressway and Don Valley Parkway do you:
(a) Tell him to go ahead
(b) Tell him not to go ahead
(c ) Tell him to go ahead and when he does, tell him not to go ahead
3. When you’ve cancelled two gas plants do you tell the public the cost is:
(a) Too much and apologize for playing politics with them
(b) Up to $1.1 billion over 20 years
(c) Less than a cup of Tim Hortons coffee a year, so what are you getting so upset about?
4. When Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk tells you your “smart meter” program cost almost $1 billion more than it should have do you:
(a) Apologize
(b) Pledge to do better
(c) Suggest Lysyk, a former senior executive at Manitoba Hydro, a chartered accountant and a certified internal auditor, with a masters in business administration, doesn’t understand the issue because electricity is complicated. And that, as a lawyer and long-time politician, you do
5. When your government is the most indebted sub-sovereign borrower in the world do you:
(a) Reduce spending
(b) Pay down debt
(c) Attack Kevin O’Leary
6. When two successive Auditors General of Ontario tell you that you spent $9.2 billion more on wind and solar power than you had to, do you:
(a) Acknowledge you made a mistake
(b) Stop subsidizing wind and solar power
(c) Attack Patrick Brown
7. When defending your cap and trade program which raises the price of almost everything do you:
(a) Explain to the public the costs, benefits, upside and downside of carbon pricing in understandable English
(b) Pledge to give 100% of the money raised from cap and trade back to the public in income tax cuts and direct grants, so it will be revenue neutral and lower greenhouse gas emissions
(c) Tell reporters you’re not exactly sure of the costs but you’re doing it for your granddaughter
8. When you promised for an entire election campaign not to raise taxes, including signing a document promising not to raise taxes do you, after you win:
(a) Not raise taxes
(b) Raise taxes
(c) Raise taxes, but call it a health premium
To save time in compiling your score, if you didn’t answer “c” to any of the above questions then you’re smarter than a Liberal cabinet minister. That’s because on the eight questions posed above, believe it or not, these Liberal cabinet ministers did: (1) Former Education Minister Liz Sandals (2) Premier Kathleen Wynne (3) Former Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli (4) Chiarelli (5) Wynne (6) Wynne (7) Wynne (8) former Premier Dalton McGuinty
So, are you smarter than a Liberal cabinet minister?
Hey, kids, in honour of Ontario Liberal cabinet minister Liz Sandals’ now apologized for remark that GO train riders are unexceptional compared to top Ontario public servants, let’s play a new game today!
I call it: Are you smarter than a Liberal cabinet minister? Ready? Here we go!
1. When giving $2.5 million to teacher unions to defray their costs of negotiating with you do you:
(a) Question why the government is subsidizing teacher unions
(b) Demand receipts
(c) Not demand receipts because you know what pizza costs
2. When Toronto Mayor John Tory tells you he wants to put road tolls on the Gardiner Expressway and Don Valley Parkway do you:
(a) Tell him to go ahead
(b) Tell him not to go ahead
(c ) Tell him to go ahead and when he does, tell him not to go ahead
3. When you’ve cancelled two gas plants do you tell the public the cost is:
(a) Too much and apologize for playing politics with them
(b) Up to $1.1 billion over 20 years
(c) Less than a cup of Tim Hortons coffee a year, so what are you getting so upset about?
4. When Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk tells you your “smart meter” program cost almost $1 billion more than it should have do you:
(a) Apologize
(b) Pledge to do better
(c) Suggest Lysyk, a former senior executive at Manitoba Hydro, a chartered accountant and a certified internal auditor, with a masters in business administration, doesn’t understand the issue because electricity is complicated. And that, as a lawyer and long-time politician, you do
5. When your government is the most indebted sub-sovereign borrower in the world do you:
(a) Reduce spending
(b) Pay down debt
(c) Attack Kevin O’Leary
6. When two successive Auditors General of Ontario tell you that you spent $9.2 billion more on wind and solar power than you had to, do you:
(a) Acknowledge you made a mistake
(b) Stop subsidizing wind and solar power
(c) Attack Patrick Brown
7. When defending your cap and trade program which raises the price of almost everything do you:
(a) Explain to the public the costs, benefits, upside and downside of carbon pricing in understandable English
(b) Pledge to give 100% of the money raised from cap and trade back to the public in income tax cuts and direct grants, so it will be revenue neutral and lower greenhouse gas emissions
(c) Tell reporters you’re not exactly sure of the costs but you’re doing it for your granddaughter
8. When you promised for an entire election campaign not to raise taxes, including signing a document promising not to raise taxes do you, after you win:
(a) Not raise taxes
(b) Raise taxes
(c) Raise taxes, but call it a health premium
To save time in compiling your score, if you didn’t answer “c” to any of the above questions then you’re smarter than a Liberal cabinet minister. That’s because on the eight questions posed above, believe it or not, these Liberal cabinet ministers did: (1) Former Education Minister Liz Sandals (2) Premier Kathleen Wynne (3) Former Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli (4) Chiarelli (5) Wynne (6) Wynne (7) Wynne (8) former Premier Dalton McGuinty
So, are you smarter than a Liberal cabinet minister?