“Ontario Election postponed!”
It hasn’t happened yet but it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if Dalton McGuinty changed the date October 6th, 2011 election given the latest poll numbers (Forum Research, released June 26, 2011). His party’s poll numbers, his personality poll numbers and his credibility poll numbers are all in the tank so I wouldn’t put in past Dalton McGuinty to change the election date to avoid losing in a provincial election.
It was Dalton McGuinty that passed the law that fixed the date of elections four years out. But changing a law is not out of character for the premier. It was also Dalton McGuinty that changed the law that banned Ontario governments from raising taxes without getting approval from voters. And breaking promises is also not out of character for this premier. It was also Dalton McGuinty that raised taxes after two elections when he said he wouldn’t.
So what would be his excuse to change the election date and a possible scenario? After the next poll shows that it’s unlikely he will win a third majority government, Dalton McGuinty will announce that he will resign as leader and premier and that he will have to postpone the October 6th election to allow the Liberal Party to choose a new leader. He will then leave it to his successor to choose the appropriate election date. This would put the nomination meeting in November 2011. The new Liberal leader would want to bring in a vote buying budget to try to undo much of the McGuinty legacy around April 2012 and hold an election either in late spring or early autumn 2012.
He can also use the excuse that the Ontario public is suffering from election fatigue and it’s too much to ask to have three elections within twelve months (when really, of the three elections, this is the one that Ontarians want the most).
Oh sure, there will be an uproar from the public but really, what’s the difference. With polls showing that the McGuinty Liberals are competing for third place, I would not put anything past Dalton McGuinty. He has shown time and time again that his word means little when it comes to how he governs Ontario.
Huh? Huh? Huh? [Open my eyes] Was I just dreaming?
What, you mean like how Steven Harper broke his own fixed-election-date law for political gain?
- RG>
Yes. In fact, I’m sure he’ll cite that as precedence…lol
You might be spending just a little too much time at the Riverside Pub, my friend. You seem to have begun to write conspiracy copy for the Cons.
Let’s take a look at your dream and figure out id there are any flaws in the logic.
First, do the Libs have anything to gain or lose from delaying the election? Your dream promotes that somehow a new leader will relish a delay to get the fiscal house back in order and distancing him/her self from the McGuinty legacy. Reality suggests that new grist for the Cons election mill would only delay a defeat, not avert it.
Second, when are taxes not taxes? Governments are always adjusting user fees. Almost all provinces have a medical system user fee, as does Ontario with its OHIP charge. Is that a tax or a user fee?
The Fed Cons are currently raising user fees left, right and centre on everything from inland grain terminals to canal lock fees to national park bookings to docking fees and on and on. Are these any less taxes than the OHIP fee? Maybe you should dream about them?
The HST is a good thing for Ontario. Is the program perfect? No, it is not. Is it a raise in taxes? Yes and No. The HST has an off-setting series of rebates that have allowed it to approach revenue neutrality. Would the Cons cancel it? That would be a nightmare, not a dream.
One election ago, John Tory mused about user fees for emergency room use. Was that an example of a Con tax? Would you call it a tax? Would you call it a tax if the Libs had suggested it?
You want to dream spin for the Cons? Better start dreaming up a way for the campaign promises being made by Hudak to start balancing themselves out so that he has a hope to eliminate the provincial deficit before the turn of the next century.
With Dalton anything is possible when it comes 2 changing things, breaking prmoises, people also can be sold just look who they voted to run Canada! The new guy will turn things around people will b happy and vote them back in and we get more taxes new ones and so on because there are corporations that benafit from it all look at hydro 3 mill a year income at the cost of the poor and those living in poverty so hey what they heck y bother complaining Lying Libs will get in again especially if other candidates r speaking of helping the poor and all because nobody wants them helped proved that voting Harper in
Two months and counting until the election and still no postponement…
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