Interestingly strange. The reaction.
Is there no one from urban Ontario on this site?
The federal confederates ran a $23 billion "fiscal gap" in transfers to the other 9 provinces per capita as opposed to what Ontario got back out of its own taxes (as always) last fiscal year.
It's not hearsay, they're not Ontario numbers they're confederate numbers and everything that has looked into it has agreed or found the number to be even higher.
SO. Ontario's moronic premier, Liberal no less (by default, and hated), brought it up, many months ago, before all of this crap, to his "liberal" (small l, very small, they should take the name Progressive Conservative Party of Canada now that MacKay has screwed that only other alternative up) cousins on confederate mound and they snubbed the premier of Ontario, to say the least, over perhaps getting a puny $4-$5 billion of our own taxes back to narrow
one fiscal year of transfer payment rip offs to Ontario, as usual, as always. And don't go clicking on this: :roll: without facts after the confederate liberals cut a check to NL for $2 billion overnight because its -2% GDP, premier and all
seven NL mp's threw temper tantrums over the law.
$2 billion, that's 2,000 million dollars, amounts to $3,868.47 per capita in NL. And what was the money for? What account will it be stuck into by the confederates? Even more equalization welfare handouts from south Ontario taxpayers?
$5 billion of Ontario's own taxes back, a pittance of the $23 billion ripped off in one fiscal year amounts to $403.46 per capita (July 1, 2004 pp,
http://www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/demo31a.htm).
Belinda Stronach is an MP from
Ontario. And from south Ontario and when Martin refused to even meet with Ontario's premier to even discuss the $23 billion rip off, Stronach agreed to take it up with the "conservative" (around what?) reform-alliance party.
She did and didn't get an answer she liked. The Reverend Harper is totally clueless (has to be, his support is rural not urban) around Toronto, the GTA, urban south Ontario, Montreal, urban south Quebec, Metro Vancouver never voted a single "alliance" (of what?) MP in and Ontario was out for blood in the last election. But over its provincial Liberals with a big fat red capital L, not the confederate liberals, who might as well take the name Progressive Conservative Party of Canada over MacKay's stupidity.
But even aside from being completely pissed at the Ontario Liberal Party, capital red L, breaking two laws, breeching a contract they signed with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and waved about, breaking over 100 campaign promises before they even took office, the average of many polls showed that 90% of Ontarians had no clue who Stephen Harper was and over 75% had no clue what the "Reform" or "Alliance" were.
They were such dopes that they never got any coverage in Ontario other than when they were unusually stupid. Insert proper language if you like, such as "politically challenged" or whatever: They had no clue what they were doing around south Ontario and made fools of themselves. And still do.
Around our wonderful 900 year-old elected parliamentary dictatorships, nothing could be done about the premier (of some thing called "Ontario" that might as well be ten provinces) and finance minister of "Ontario" breaking two laws after swearing oaths to the Almighty Lieutenant Governor (who did what today? No cheating, don't look it up, what's her name let alone what did she do today; or he if it's a he, as though anyone has a care or clue) to uphold the laws of Ontario and Canada. The [Ontario] Conservative opposition (by default of Eerie Eves) recommended that Ontarians write to the real opposition, the media, to express their outrage.
Wow. What a great "democracy". Write to the media, who'd have thunk it? What's next, "Just Say No?" And then the elected dictatorship will do what, just step down? "We can't take the media on, we must resign." Uh huh.
But the big bad Lieutenant Governor did .... absolutely nothing. S/he/it was sworn magical Royal Oaths by the whole cabinet. They spake and did say, "We shall uphold the laws of Ontario and Canada, so help us ..." and then they cracked up, "We WON, get out of the way you stupid fool," and the Lieutant Governor lit a cigar and poured him/her/itself a glass of brandy and put its feet up on the $10,000 desk and did grin saying, "Wow. What a cool job." Then it booked a trip to Tahiti for a mere $50,000 to um, "Do that thing you hired me for." Then it said "Ta."
Then the federal election happened and every single vote in Ontario that went to the Harperites would have gone to the real Conservative Party of Canada had MacKay not turned into the most oblivious fool in history. Had "Canadian Alliance" been on the ballots, no one in Ontario would have voted for them in protest votes against their provincial Liberals taken out on the federal liberals. They would have voted for the Progressive Conservative Party of
Canada not the leader of the western Canadas that no one had a clue about.
I know it, Stronach knows it, anyone who follows politics at all in Ontario knows it. [Aside from the bit about the Lieutenant Governor, which I made up but it's probably true. It's worthless, it did nothing, so dump it.] MacKay was too much of an idiot (which means "politically challenged" not a REAL idiot, just a political one) to win but it wasn't about winning, it was nothing but a protest vote (as in Quebec, but to the Bloc thanks to the MacKay: Quebec vote for a rural Stampeder who doesn't even know how racist, disriminatory and sexist he is? ) against provincial Liberals in both provinces. It had nothing to do with voting for The Reverend Harper at all.
Stronach took up the $23 billion rip off of Ontario in one fiscal year, certainly not the first one but we're getting a bit tired of this crap, particularly when checks for almost $3 billion were cut to NL and NS over absolutely nothing, for no reason at all, and now the NL government has over $2,000 more per capita of our own tax dollars than the Ontario government has to spend on its own budgets and Ontario citizens, which is just not how things work around equalization welfare handouts given that Ontario pays for 100% of them.
The Reverend Harper would not support the budget, which is
finally, slowly, far too slowly for Ontario but it's better than the kick in the teeth Harper has promised, getting some of Ontario's own tax money back to where it belongs -- in Ontario.
Stronach told Ontario's premier, she's from south Ontario not Saskatchewan, that she'd be happy to take the issue up with Harper and Harper screwed up so she'll now be happy to take it up with Martin.
Not to mention that the "conservative" reform-alliance party is aligning with the Bloc to try to play its pathetic political games over a budget that "even" Albertans want to pass.
Do explain why the budget shouldn't pass. Backloadeded corporate tax cuts to the biggest corporations around, leaving the real businesses that create most of the jobs, medium-small with their tax cuts?
Money to not allow people to die due to tax plundering?
Leaving the confederate feds with billions of dollars in over-taxation (from south Ontario and south Quebec and sort of Alberta) instead of giving it back to the cities the money came from, directly, bypassing their worthless (certainly in Ontario) provincial feds? Didn't The Reverend Harper scream and cry about that too?
What hasn't he screamed and cried about? And now he's going to line up with the Bloc Quebecois for purely selfish reasons to try to defeat a budget that most Canadians want to pass, so that he can get voted out in the Speech From the Toilet [Throne]? It's a confidence vote and he wouldn't even get past that if by some fluke of political history, Stephen Harper actually ended up with a minority government and no friends to work with, as they stated before the last election, the Bloc and the NDP. The PC's, I mean 'liberals', go without saying when the "conservative" reform-alliance "representatives" of themselves, are stupid enough to vote against this budget.
