Squatter in her own office............lovin it. Now kick em to the curb!!!

[ZR]

Kathleen Wynne is polling so low that she’s basically a squatter in her own office.
She’s counting on the 2017-18 budget to retrieve her dismal approval rating and save her party from coming in third place.
But will it work?
Last year’s budget was full of shiny baubles meant to please Ontarians: Free tuition for post-secondary students, more money for hospitals, and a slightly smaller deficit than expected.
But 14 years of arrogance, wasteful spending, disgraceful scandals, and an overall hectoring tone have made the Wynne Liberals extremely unpopular. That budget was a serious flop.
Approval ratings continued to plummet, and lately Wynne has been flirting with single digits. Former Liberal Party president Greg Sorbara recently declared that it’s “extremely unlikely” that the Liberals can win in 2018. Donations have dried up. Rumours now circulate that much of the Liberal front bench will step down. Maybe even Wynne will resign. So this year’s budget is the Liberals’ last opportunity to convince Ontarians to give them another chance.
Predictably, the Liberals are congratulating themselves on a supposedly balanced budget and a mass of new ‘investments.’
But I don’t think Ontarians will be fooled.
The budget isn’t really balanced. The government is hiding a $5-billion operational deficit with one-off revenues and inappropriate use of assets.
The Liberals have papered over a lot of what they owe with revenue from the embarrassing fire sale of Hydro One and the carbon tax boondoggle. They’re also citing assets held by public-sector pension plans as government assets — a cheap trick which Ontarians should easily see through.
But it gets worse.
The budget says that Ontario’s debt will go up another 8% over the next two years to $336 billion.
This means that the Liberals have no plan to reduce Ontario’s massive debt — a debt which has more than doubled since they took power.
Annual interest payments on this debt amount to $12 billion. This is just about the cost of a gas plant scandal every month. It is also significantly more than this government spends on post-secondary education and community safety combined.
Tim Murphy, Liberal campaign co-chair, once earnestly remarked: “Once you balance the budget, the debt starts going down.” Normally, that would be true, but not in Kathleen Wynne’s Ontario.

[ZR]

Come on Ontario, time to get her approval rating down to zero!!!

[ZR]

Stay pissed at how much they've squandered tax dollars.

[Scrape]

She needs to be kicked out now! She has done zero for us.

[ZR]

She's done what no other premier has managed to accomplish and in a very short time..................... FLUSH ONTARIO'S FINANCES DOWN THE TOILET.

[ZR]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Zk0uP3ZACJk/U2TvxFJZPxI/AAAAAAAAAsI/YVXox-omiPA/s1600/wynne+election.jpg

[ZR]

https://www.blazingcatfur.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Kathleen-Wynne-Liberal-Party-Kleptocracy-in-Ontario.jpg

[ZR]

https://quixoteslaststand.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/criminal-party-of-ontario.png

[Intmdtr]

YEP CAN'T WAIT TILL THAT CRAZY (.....) IS OUT OF POWER.

[Scrape]

We need to do a countdown on her D-Day!

[ZR]

Can not happen soon enough.

[Scrape]

More hot water for this (....)!
http://z1035.com/breaking-government-ministry-cut-autism-funding-spent-54000-canada-goose-jackets-staff/

[RedSN]

The parkas were purchased by the Ministry of Children and Youth Services
So were these trendy coats handed out to needy children?
Or to office staff?

At least they are supporting a canadian company instead of buying coats from Indonesia :facepalm:


edit: I was giving them the benefit of a doubt thinking maybe some lucky kids got some much needed warm jackets. I was wrong.


The Ontario Ministry of Children and Youth Services spent $53,948 buying staff at youth correctional facilities luxury brand Canada Goose parkas to keep them warm on the job.
Progressive Conservative MPP Sylvia Jones had made repeated tries to get an explanation for the expense that turned up in the 2015-16 public accounts.
Jones said she’d heard a rumour that the coats were purchased for staff, and a ministry spokesman later confirmed to the Toronto Sun that was the case.
http://www.torontosun.com/2017/05/04/liberals-spent-53948-on-canada-goose-jackets


Ali said the Canada Goose jackets were purchased in bulk to save money after receiving no other “qualified bids” in an open, competitive bidding process.
uh huh :facepalm:

[Harbinger]

Good bye wynn

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[ZR]

“Buying these luxury jackets which on average cost $1000 is indefensible.

[WTF]

“Buying these luxury jackets which on average cost $1000 is indefensible.



pretty sure the NorthFace coat I bought for 1/3rd of that Canada Goose price would be more than sufficient to keep those blood suckers warm

[Quicksilver]

They took bids? Imagine how much it cost for some office shlep to put together the RFQ (request for Quotation). It would have been cheaper by far to just go out in January to a few stores in a mall and buy coats on sale. I'm pretty sure It could have been done for 20% of the price.

[WTF]

They took bids? Imagine how much it cost for some office shlep to put together the RFQ (request for Quotation).

this is a good point

and I'm betting it wasn't one office schlep....one competent schlep woulda nixxed Canada Goose outta the gate on perception alone.....and Gov't doesn't work that way....it's a group-think to ensure the taxpayer gets truly fuct

they probably had a team of 12 with multiple meetings....to review the RFQ and debate....to regroup and sign off....to hear each presentation...then to regroup and analyse...then to regroup and vote etc etc

they probably burned through 4x the cost of the expensive coats just making the fucking decision alone

[Ponyryd]

^Stop it. You guys are making me sick.

GTFO Wynne.

[83 5.0]

^Stop it. You guys are making me sick.

GTFO Wynne.

Lol, I think she has a Teflon coating, and just can't count out her squeeking back in. She must have some taxpayer hand outs left to bribe the weak minded before the next election.

[RedSN]

This thread seemed as a good a place as any to put this:


Wynne to announce plans for high-speed rail from Toronto to Windsor
"You get a train ....and you get a train ......EVERYBODY GETS A TRAIN!"


The Ontario government will announce Friday it's moving ahead with planning a high-speed rail line from Toronto to Windsor, CBC News has learned. Senior Liberal sources told CBC News the government will begin preliminary design work for the 350-kilometre link and invest $15 million in a comprehensive environmental assessment. Premier Kathleen Wynne will make the announcement in London on Friday morning, flanked by Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca and Deputy Premier Deb Matthews. Then she'll travel to Kitchener to make the same announcement at noon.
The report recommends a railway that could carry trains travelling 250 km/h and could be built at an estimated $55 million per kilometre, which would mean an approximate total cost of $19 billion. The report also examines a scenario for trains capable of travelling 300 km/h, but it would cost nearly three times as much ($149 million per km).

$15M for an environmental study. Yay.

And then $55M per km for the rail.

And just like drag racing, it gets exponentially more expensive the faster you go. To get a train that goes 50 kph faster you need to dole out 3X more dough.

[ZR]

FMG

[Laffs]

WHY DO WE NEED THAT. Seriously do you really need a middle ground between the 50 min plane ride and the existing 4.5 hour train at a cost of billions??

[83 5.0]

So you bring in more people from 150 km plus to Union Station during the rush hour and dump them on an over capacity TTC. Not every job is in the downtown core.
I am so glad I will be almost retired by the time the Environmental assessments wrap up.

[WTF]

how the fuck does a Gov't continue to borrow money when they have a track record of NOT PAYING DOWN THEIR EXISTING DEBT???

this shit has to stop now

I know that running a Gov't is not the same as running a household....but for fucks sake.....running a household like this would result in the bank telling you to go fuck yourself while they dangle handcuffs in front of you

there needs to be legislation to make this Gov't behavior illegal

municipal gov'ts can't behave like this.....and there should be similar legislation for provincial and federal

if you can't manage your fucking bills then you don't get any more fucking money

[ZR]

It should be far closer to one in the same Tim. No bucks = stop spending money.

[Ray721]

Why the fuck do we need to go to Windsor so quickly for? It's fucking Windsor!!!

[ZR]

As per the norm, solving problems that aren't a problem.

[Ponyryd]

Why the fuck do we need to go to Windsor so quickly for? It's fucking Windsor!!!

Hey, what did Windsor ever do to you?


This idea is beyond retarded, there's no real demand for that and the cost is never less than projected, it's always more.....I can't imagine what this will actually cost us in the end. This idiot must know she's done, so she's trying to screw us over as much as humanly possible while she still can.
How the hell did she ever get elected?

[ZR]

How the hell did she ever get elected?

By the very group(s) she continues to toss cash at.

[RedSN]

How the hell did she ever get elected?
Well, she didn't, that's how.

In October 2012, Dalton McGuinty prorogued the legislature, and then stepped down. Kathleen Wynne then stepped up and took his place February 2013. Then in the June 2014 election Tim Hudak screwed up a win handed to him on a silver platter.

[ZR]

More gas plant numbers, seems they missed by a hair vs what we've been told.

Talk about a chronic pain in the gas.
Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives are slamming the Liberal government after media reports revealed the cost for the now infamous gas plant scandal has jumped by over $1.5 billion. That’s in addition to the $1.2 billion previously revealed by the auditor general, the Tories say.
CTV News revealed Thursday that Ontario ratepayers will now have to start shelling out on their hydro bills for the two relocated gas plants behind the infamous scandal.
The pricetag to build the Sarnia gas plant sits at $360 million and the Napanee plant at $1.2 billion, CTV says.
PC Energy Critic Todd Smith called the costs “disgusting”.
“All of that has to be recovered in the customer rate-base,” he said. “The electricity customer’s bills.”
In 2011, the Liberals promised to move two controversial gas plant developments, one in Oakville and one in Mississauga. Initially, it was believed the election promise would cost taxpayers $230 million. Ontario’s Auditor General revealed in 2013 that the real cost to taxpayers was closer to $1.2 billion.
“It’s disgusting really because it’s complete waste by the government,” Smith said. “These plants were intended to go in the GTA. ... That’s where growth is occurring in the Golden Horseshoe and the GTHA. So the need for generation in that area was real. It’s still real.”
Smith said the government decision was done to save Liberal seats in the 2011 election but the consequences are still being felt today.
What’s worse, the plants in Sarnia and Napanee will sit idle much of the time, he said.
Colin Nekolaichuk, spokesman for Energy Minister Glenn Thibeault, disputed the claim that these costs are in addition to those previously identified by the Auditor General.
“These are the costs of now running the natural gas fired generators, just like any other generator in the province,” he said. “The figures mentioned in media reports are the capital costs of these facilities, which would be paid for regardless of where these plants were built and have been factored into rates since the 2013 Long Term Energy Plan.”
Nekolaichuk said the government has accepted the Auditor General’s finding on the relocation of the gas plants and made improvements “to ensure that new build generation is appropriately sited at the outset of the planning process.”