Letter from Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak to Elections Ontario
MAY 28
If you love Ontario, and want to return our Province to Prosperity – Vote Conservative!
Elections
The Lying Liberals….They have Got to Go!
Exposing Liberal half-truths
Hospital closure myths
Exposing Liberal half-truthBurlington Post
The Ontario Liberals have quietly pushed their tall tales, saying the PC government under Mike Harris gutted Ontario’s health-care system.
Their tales go beyond spin and enter the realm of self-serving lie. It is most telling that the Liberals never bring this lie into public debate, they merely use it as part of a whisper campaign, repeating it until it begins to take hold among the general populace.
For example, references to hospital closures that I’ve found suggest that in total the Liberals claim that the PC government closed 39 hospitals in Ontario. They arrive at this number in two ways. Several places in Ontario, including Thunder Bay, Cobourg, Peterborough and Sault Ste. Marie, had two aging hospital facilities. The PCs closed these old, outdated hospitals and built new ones.
The Liberals have lied by omission, in failing to account for the new hospitals that were built in Ontario, some to replace aging buildings and several entirely new hospitals to serve growing populations. By my count we closed 12 hospitals in this manner and opened 17 new ones.
In addition, several hospitals located in close proximity were amalgamated to save on administrative costs. For example, Oakville Trafalgar, Milton District and Georgetown hospitals were amalgamated into Halton Healthcare Services. Liberal Party math says we closed three hospitals. The truth is we simply streamlined the costs — the facilities never closed. We repeated this in major urban centres across Ontario.
The truth is we streamlined costs, opened new facilities to replace aging buildings, significantly grew health-care facilities and increased services in Ontario.
The Liberals conveniently forget the PC government opened new facilities across the province to house 20,000 long-term care patients, people who were taking spaces in acute-care hospitals. In addition, we upgraded existing long-term care facilities for 16,000 Ontarians.
This isn’t only about hospitals. If the PCs gutted health care, how do they explain the expansion of nursing positions? How do they explain our creation of home-care services? How do they explain our substantially-increased funding for cardiac and cancer care and expanded cancer care centres across Ontario? How do they explain 52 new MRIs the PCs brought to Ontario where only 12 existed and the addition of 55 CT scanners? At what point does partisan political spin damage our society? At what point do lies like this get punished by voters?
Ted Chudleigh is the Conservative MPP for Halton.
Sitting on the Fence Doesn’t Work…..Your Either In, or You’re Out!
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The same old pledges and platitudes are being rolled out, from Sadiq Khan’s apology in an open letter to UKIP supporters, which then outlines policies designed to entice former Labour voters back to Labour; to David Cameron’s ‘understood and received the message’ soundbite before he went on to proclaim what voters want – with neither party actually asking anyone outside the Westminster bubble why 4.3 million voters put their ‘X’ next to UKIP on the ballot paper A common thread among the legacy parties is that the EU has to ‘change’. Having pushed this line for many months, they now use it as a crutch to declare that this is what voters want, and they all declare that if only we vote for them they will bring about the reforms we apparently want. It is, of course, one huge steaming pile of freshly laid bullshit. Snake oil isn’t close to the product these people are trying to sell. Rather they are pushing a product that makes the fictional element ‘Unobtanium’ in the film Avatar, or the dragons storyline in the TV series Game of Thrones look real in comparison. Whatever ‘reform’ the EU might be persuaded to adopt, it will be trivial and will not result in the return of any powers to the UK that reduce Brussels’ control over the free movement of people, control over the free flow of money to different tax jurisdictions within the bloc, control over the movement of goods and services and the tariffs applied to them. But despite these facts and despite the legion of Eurocrats, Commissioners and MEPs who have stepped forward to point out these facts and explain that the principles of the EU that underpin it are non-negotiable, our politicians and media continue to talk about EU reform as if it is just a negotiation away – and groups claiming to be Eurosceptic continue to make public demands that renegotation is undertaken. So it is that a significant proportion of those people who say they want the UK to remain inside the EU do so because they have been fooled into believing reform is possible. They are being taken in by fantasies and distracted from reality – therefore allowing the politicians to avoid the reality that only invoking Article 50 of the EU Treaty (Lisbon) will result in a renegotiation of the substantive issues and only by leaving the EU will the UK be able to take control of the areas where people want to see change. We can be in, or we can be out. But we can’t be a bit in between. |
Listen Carefully…. “Unnecessary Jobs will be Eliminated through Attrition!”
Garbage Day June 12….Time to throw out the Liberal Garbage!!
What Windpushers do to Rural Residents, is Outrageous! Corruption!!!
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Remember the days when you used to go to the local outdoor market to buy fresh baked goods, flowers and honey, and not to drag 120 “STOP THE WIND TURBINE” signs from the trunk of your car in hopes of educating the visitors.
Remember the days when you went to a council meeting because your neighbour two farms down wanted to sever a lot and build their parents a home, but not to beg the council to uncover some hidden ancient by-law to protect the sanctity of your health and home from swarming developers.
Remember when you could contact your health department with a concern and they would do everything in their power to help you, whatever it took, and they did not dismiss, insult and deny you with an issue serious enough that forced you to leave your home.
Remember when you used to get together once a year with your neighbours at the local town hall to have potluck just to catch up, not to line up at microphones wondering how you were going to protect each other?
Remember when children and the elderly were protected and cherished as those who may be considered at a disadvantage or needed extra loving care, not some extras in the household with “collateral damage” signs hanging from their necks.
Remember when someone asked what your favourite thing is and you said just going home, having a drink on the deck and forgetting my cares for the day, instead of locking the windows and doors up tight to block out the invasion and running away when you have to.
Remember when you used to go to family weddings and birthdays and could get lost in the excitement celebrating with everyone else, not sitting glumly in a corner with no recall of how to carry on a conversation that wasn’t slamming the government or railing against developers.
Remember the friends that used to come and visit once in a while, for some good conversation and a bite to eat, who now don’t come near you because you have been taken into the netherworld and you can’t get out.
Remember when you used to get in the car and drive for miles in anticipation of a great trip to a new unknown, and not driving for miles because you have to try to convince someone you’re having a big problem and you need them to listen.
Remember when you could come home, respond to your emails in 10 minutes and carry on with your family, and not sit in front of your computer researching, preparing and communicating until 12 AM and rising at 6 to start all over again.
Remember your Dad, pointing out the bird species and flora so you could recognize it when they graced your home, and not staring into the back yard and wondering where all the birds went and are they safe?
Remember the sounds on a warm summer night?
The sounds……
Lying Liberals have Got a lot of Nerve…..More finger-pointing from Wynne’s team!
Reblogged from Sun News!
I’d love to give you details of Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne’s campaign platform released Sunday.
Sadly, I can’t.
The Liberal campaign chose to release further details of their platform in Thunder Bay.
She took it as far away as she could from Toronto, no doubt to attract as few reporters as possible.
Only those news outlets that could afford the $7,000-$8,000 that the campaigns are charging reporters to sit in their buses could be there.
Those of us on more modest budgets are left to follow the campaign online.
And their Livestream system was a joke. It didn’t work.
At one point, I thought she said they’d “invest in in” and “build more hops.”
It could mean they’re going to invest in infrastructure and build more hospitals, but why take the risk of misquoting her?
If they want positive ink, they need to act in a more competent fashion.
Meanwhile, PC Leader Tim Hudak held a news conference to push his Million Jobs platform — and to counter Mississauga South Liberal Charles Sousa’s assertions that the Tories had their numbers wrong.
It started to sound like an economist’s version of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
I start to giggle when I hear a Liberal accusing anyone of getting their numbers wrong.
This is the party that came to power in 2003 by lying. They lied again in 2007, when they slammed John Tory’s plan for faith-based funding. By the 2011 election they were allowing “religious accommodation” in public schools.
One school in Kathleen Wynne’s own Don Valley West riding actually allows Friday prayers in a public school cafeteria for Muslim students.
If that’s not publicly funded faith-based schooling, I don’t know what is.
This is the government that told us their appalling Green Energy Act would create 60,000 jobs. In fact, as former auditor general Jim McCarter pointed out in a scathing report, not only did it not create jobs, it’s caused massive job losses in the manufacturing sector because the added cost of electricity has wreaked havoc in the rust belt.
Now we have Sousa, he of the avuncular voice, lecturing the Tories on their numbers.
To paraphrase a negative Working Families’ ad in the 2003 election, “Not this time, Charlie.”
If anyone actually believes the nonsense Sousa and his Liberal buddies are spouting in yet another say-anything-to-get elected campaign, they deserve the bad government they’ll get.
This is the same Liberal Party that scrapped the Mississauga gas plant during the last election, saying it would cost $40 million. The bill to scrap two plants came in at a whopping $1.1 billion.
Their May 1 budget was a joke. If they implement it, this province will be plunged even deeper into debt — and likely see a credit downgrade.
Hudak said Wynne and New Democrat Leader Andrea Horwath are “paralyzed by a desire to be popular,” while he’s giving voters the straight goods up front.
“The finance minister (Sousa) and Kathleen Wynne are so far in the pockets of the big government unions, they can’t see the reality out there,” Hudak told reporters.
From what I can gather from the glitchy livestream, Wynne promised to send Alberta what’s left of the Ontario manufacturing sector by introducing a new mandatory tax to pay for a pension plan only people now in their 20s will benefit from.
It almost makes you glad the Liberal track record is to lie about what they’ll deliver.
Remember, this is the party that came to power with a promise not to increase your taxes “one cent,” then brought in the biggest tax hike the province has ever seen in the first budget after they were elected.
I can’t believe there are enough suckers out there who are willing to give the Liberals a new mandate.
The polls say differently.
Apparently, the Liberals have such a sketchy platform, they’ll do anything not to tell us about it — and then blame computers.
A Conservative Government is What we Need, to Save our Economy!
Governments rip up renewable contracts
Postmedia NewsEurope’s renewable energy investors are facing a harsh reality – that the promises from politicians can be taken away at any moment. Canada’s renewable energy investors may soon f
Companies ‘do not have a right [to expect the compensation] not to be changed’
Governments across Europe, regretting the over-generous deals doled out to the renewable energy sector, have begun reneging on them. To slow ruinous power bills hikes, governments are unilaterally rewriting contracts and clawing back unseemly profits.
In Italy, one of Europe’s largest economies and one that lavished billions in subsidies on the renewable sector, the government in 2013 applied its so-called “Robin Hood tax” to renewable energy producers. Under the new rule, renewable energy producers with more than €3 million in revenue and income greater than €300,000 must now pay a tax of 10.5%.
That follows a 2012 move to charge all solar producers a five cent tax per kilowatt hour on all self-consumed energy. The government also told solar producers that it would stop taking their power – and would offer no compensation – when their output overwhelms the system.
The result of these and other changes, says the solar industry, has been a surge in bankruptcies and a massive decrease in solar investment.
In Belgium – where both regional and federal bodies hand out renewable subsidies – a number of retroactive changes have capped the largesse renewable producers once received. In one region the price for “green certificates” – which producers received for renewable energy – was slashed by 79%. The government original committed to buy green certificates at a benchmarked price for 20 years, then cut it to 10 years.
Belgium’s regulators tried to impose a fee on all energy added to the grid from small- to medium-sized solar producers. While the country’s court of appeals struck down that fee, a defiant regional government plans to reintroduce it next year, forcing all solar producers to pay an annual fee that varies with the power they pump into the grid. Various municipalities, meanwhile, are introducing taxes on new and existing wind turbines.
As in Italy, Belgium’s renewable sector in the county has gone dark –“imploded” in the view of a solar industry publication. Many companies shrank or went bankrupt.
In France the government last year cut by 20% the “guaranteed” rate offered to all solar producers, and retroactively applied it to projects connected to the grid in the previous three months. The government is also considering ending an 11% tax break on solar energy producers.
Perhaps the most dramatic moves occurred in Spain, for years the poster child for those touting a transition to green energy. Since 2000, Spain has given renewable producers $41-billion more for their power than it has fetched on the open market. To recover those subsidies, the Spanish government recently killed its Feed In Tariff (FIT) program for renewables, which paid them an outlandishly high guaranteed price for their power, replacing it with the market price for their power plus a subsidy deemed more “reasonable.” Companies’ profits are now capped at a 7.4% return, following which they must then sell their power at market rates. That measure is retroactive, with renewable energy producers who got too fat off their profits now being starved until they reach the 7.4% cap.
For example, if a company spent $100-million on a solar installation in Spain and was posting a return of 14%, or $14-million, annually on that investment, then the government would cut it off from subsidies until its total return – starting from when it was first built – fell to 7.4%, or $7.4 million, a year.
Wind projects built before 2005 will no longer receive any form of subsidy – a move a wind energy trade group called a “sacking” of the sector that will see more than a third of wind producers lose their subsidy.
The fallout in Spain was immediate. Its solar sector, which once employed 60,000 workers, now employs 5,000. The wind sector is estimated to have laid off 20,000 workers. Ikea – the Swedish furniture retailer that became enamoured of renewables – announced it was cutting its losses and abandoning a solar plant it had built in Spain. Investment in the sector also collapsed. In 2011, Spain attracted $10 billion in solar investment. In 2013, the level of investment dropped by almost 90%.
Spain’s Supreme Court offered no sympathy to the solar industry, in ruling against its argument that the government’s retroactive changes were wrong. “The evolution of the energy sector … was putting the financial sustainability of the electricity system at risk,” the court decided, adding that the companies “do not have a right [to expect the government compensation regime] not to be changed.”
Europe’s renewable energy investors are facing a harsh reality – that the promises from politicians can be taken away at any moment. Canada’s renewable energy investors may soon face that same reality.
Brady Yauch is an economist and executive director of Consumer Policy Institute, a division of Energy Probe Research Foundation.
Liberal Wind Turbines Invading Ontario!
KAGAWONG – Looks like Martians landed on Manitoulin Island this spring. Liberal Martians.
They hulk on McLean’s Mountain behind Little Current, Manitoulin’s metropolis, pop. 1,500.
What a shocking sight it is as you approach the century-old iron swing bridge, the only land link.
When I left last October, there was nothing between that ridge and God but treetops and clouds.
Now? Someone call Orson Welles.
“It’s like we’ve been invaded,” Deb Turner tells me at Turners of Little Current, a 135-year-old department store.
The War of the Worlds giants also march along the Cup and Saucer trail behind M’Chigeeng, the closest Ojibwa reserve to my woodsy shack near Kagawong, “Ontario’s Prettiest Village.”
“They’re a blight,” says Deb’s husband, Jib, who is running for Tim Hudak’s Tories.
Jib’s great-great-grandmother was migrating west when her boat arrived at this Paradise and she declared, “I don’t know about you, but I’m staying right here.”
Who could blame her? Or the Martians? The Ojibwa call this Spirit Island with reason.
The invaders, of course, are not really Martians, but windmills. McGuinty Mushrooms. Dalton’s Big Wind. Built so Liberals could feel warm and fuzzy.
There are 24 on McLean’s Mountain and two at M’Chigeeng, each 150 metres, including blade. They dwarf the Peace Tower, the Taj Mahal, Rogers Centre, even Adam Vaughan’s ego. They are higher than Rob Ford on a Saturday night.
You could live with them, I guess, if they were productive or cost-effective or were going to save us from Doomsday …
But here’s the rub: At 10 a.m. Sunday, of 13,116 megawatts total output across Ontario, just 130 megawatts came from windmills, according to a government website (ieso.ca) where nuclear and hydro still reign.
The “others” category even out-produced windmills. “Other” what, the solar reflection from Kathleen Wynne’s spectacles?
The province has 1,026 windmills to date. So according to my solar-powered calculator we’ll need 1,035,234 of the beasts to meet our energy needs. You’ll have one in your driveway.
I doubt there’ll be one in Ms Wynne’s backyard. No need to go NIMBY when you’re premier. I poke my head out of the deep woods long enough to be dumbfounded that polls give her a good shot at retaining power.
What are we, masochists? The most cynical, interfering, scandalous, overripe government in memory is even-money to repeat?! McGuinty, Wynne, McWynnety?
The Liberals’ Green Energy Act (GEA) has foisted “wind farms” on rural Ontarians while blindly ignoring wind’s unreliability, the millions it costs to connect to the grid, and minimal ecological gains.
But you know this already. Everyone from the Fraser Institute to the auditor general has slammed the GEA as hasty and wasteful — and a key reason your hydro bills are soaring.
Windmills are a boondoggle on par with Ornge, eHealth, the $270-billion debt and the infamous gas plants.
In the real world, heads would fall. The fact this election is still close does not say much for Tim Hudak but anyone’s better than Premier Mom and, before her, Premier Dad. Surely.
Island voters seem discombobulated, too. As of noon Sunday, an online poll in the superb little Manitoulin Expositor had Jib Turner at 26.4%, the NDP at 25.4% and Liberals at 25.05%.
Tighter than a deer’s arse in fly season.
Algoma-Manitoulin was longtime Liberal, before the NDP stole it in 2011.
As for windmills, opposition ran 68% in a Sudbury Star poll as construction began.
There are supporters, too. I bump into Audrey Jones, whose family’s dairy farm is newly decorated with windmills. (They reportedly earn landowners up to $30,000 rent.)
When I suggest the behemoths are alien to this idyllic, summery isle, she says:
“We live here year-round and make a living from our land to the best of our ability. Is that wrong?”
On the other hand, Dr. Bill Studzienny, a dentist in Gore Bay, down the shore from me, declared last summer he would not work on the teeth of pro-windmill politicians.
Studzienny told me he feared his hand would shake in anger during a root canal.
“I’m only human,” he said. “Would a woman want to see a gynecologist who has no respect for her (views)?”
Makes sense to me, long as it’s no emergency, but the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario disagrees. It recently charged Studzienny with “disgraceful, dishonourable or unethical conduct.”
Mmmm. “Disgraceful, dishonourable, unethical …”
If Kathleen McWynnety and company were dentists, they’d be outta here.
Tories will take the Wind out of the Wind Scam! Fantastic!
Ill wind blows for turbines if Tories win: Wilson 18
By Morgan Ian Adams, Enterprise-Bulletin
Friday, May 23, 2014 5:00:38 EDT PM
Simcoe-Grey Progressive Conservative candidate Jim Wilson (second from right) makes a campaign announcement during a stop at the Collingwood Regional Airport, Friday, May 23, 2014. With Wilson are, from left, pilot Alexander Younger, pilot and airport board chair Charlie Tatham, and pilot Kevin Elwood. Morgan Ian Adams/Collingwood Enterprise-Bulletin/QMI AgencCLEARVIEW Twp. —The Progressive Conservative candidate for Simcoe-Grey says he’d put a stop to a company’s plans to erect wind turbines near the local airport should his party form the next government.
By Morgan Ian Adams, Enterprise-Bulletin
CLEARVIEW Twp. —The Progressive Conservative candidate for Simcoe-Grey says he’d put a stop to a company’s plans to erect wind turbines near the local airport should his party form the next government.
In a campaign stop at the Collingwood Regional Airport Friday morning, during which he slammed the existing Green Energy Act and the impact he says it has had on electricity bills, Jim Wilson promised a Progressive Conservative government would do what it could to halt WPD Canada’s plans to erect turbines near the facility should his party win the June 12 provincial election.
WPD’s proposal is to erect eight turbines in the area north of County Road 91; at least two of the proposed 500-foot-tall turbines are within an area the municipal services board that manages the airport say are a potential safety hazard to aircraft, especially in the landing or take-off phase, while another three turbines are considered on the edge of that area.
WPD’s plans are presently under technical review by the Ministry of Environment.
“We’ll do whatever it takes to stop WPD Canada from putting the wind turbines in this vicinity,” said Wilson. “It is in process, and it may end up in a lawsuit, but we just can’t allow it.”
“If you’re going to prevent death, you do everything you can to do that — you have a moral obligation to do that.”
The airport board, and several landowners in the area, have been fighting the proposal for several years; both Collingwood and Clearview Township municipal councils have also voiced their opposition.
One of those landowners, Kevin Ellwood — who has a private aerodrome on his farm on County Road 91, and is faced with the prospect of having a turbine in the path of his landing strip — has filed 39 access-to-information requests of various ministries on WPD’s proposal.
Some of those requests are now before an adjudicator to see if the information will be released.
The turbines, said Ellwood, are “dangerous and significant threats to pilots and their passengers.”
Ellwood and Wilson both point to a crash in South Dakota in April that killed four, after a Piper 32 aircraft collided with a turbine in poor weather conditions. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating, but authorities have not released any details on the crash.
Regional airport board chair Charlie Tatham, who was on hand for Wilson’s announcement, said he’s tried to point out to provincial officials that the location of the turbines “pose a lethal danger… yet they choose to ignore it.
“To ignore it could lead to someone’s death at some point,” he said.
WPD’s position has been the location of the turbines will have a negligible effect on airport movements.
Wilson, however, remains unconvinced, and says the location of the turbines is just one of the problems with the Green Energy Act, which the Conservatives claim will cost electricity customers $46 billion over the next 20 years, paying out contracts for wind and solar power at rates that far exceed current electricity prices.
“Hopefully we can stop it, that there’s some escape clauses (in the agreements)… but I don’t know the full extent of these (contracts and what’s hidden in them,” said Wilson. “There are thousands, tens of thousands of these contracts that are essentially secret and covered up from the public. This one just keeps on rolling ahead and (government) doesn’t seem to be listening to anybody.”
Wilson said a former provincial Liberal cabinet minister warned the legal costs of putting a halt to some of these contracts would be in the billions of dollars, but that point is irrelevant when considering the long-term cost of paying out energy contracts — or worse, if someone dies because a plane hits a wind turbine located close to the airport.
“It’s a lot cheaper than paying people 20 years of contracts when they get paid whether the wind blows or the sun shines. It’s going to bankrupt the province, so you might as well just cut your losses,” said Wilson.
“It’s a moral choice, it’s an expensive choice, but it’s one we’re going to have to make. Hopefully we can get to the bottom of this on day-one (of a new government)… it may require that we talk to our lawyers, it may require new legislation to undo the Green Energy Act, and if we have to do that… well (the legislature) is supreme.”
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