Promoting a dialogue for political change in Ontario
This isn’t about the movie, although I loved it when it came out and they were way ahead of the curve on the whole vampire thing. It’s about our boys.
Respected PhD Leonard Sax has attracted a lot of attention with the publication of his book Boys Adrift . In it, Sax seeks to address the causes behind a generation of young males that are unmotivated and have no ambition. Think Failure To Launch. It was a funny concept as a movie, but it’s a real problem. [Read more...]
Yesterday I got an oil change at a quick lube place and noticed a $1.99 line item for “shop charges”. I asked what this was for and was told that “it’s for the rags we use”.
Last week I paid the cottage hydro bill which was packed full of line items, presumably to justify the $326.99 needed to deliver $104 of electricity. Since we won’t return to the cottage until next spring I put the phone there on suspension and noticed a $50 line item on my next phone bill for this service. [Read more...]
In baseball it’s 3 strikes and you’re out. The same should be for our Liberal government. They are now destroying even the Green Jobs that they have been touting that they will create! [Read more...]
An article by Tess Kalinowski in the Nov. 5th Toronto Star discusses the inevitable gridlock that will shut down Toronto and spill over to the surrounding regions. Inevitable? It doesn’t have to be if The Parkdale Party gets its way. [Read more...]
Another kick in our working butts with Ontario taking the brunt of job losses, again. Where are those 
promised Green Jobs Mr. McGuinty? [Read more...]
It is just too easy to poke fun at our Liberals with respect to their recent election promise to move the Mississauga South power plant. But who in their right mind believes anything this group says anyways? [Read more...]
With only 49% of eligible vorters taking the time to vote in the recent Ontario election it is clear that something is seriously wrong with our political process. It seems clear that the majority of eligible voters do not connect with the existing Ontario Ploitical Parties. Well, now we have a place where the Independent politicos can congregate. [Read more...]
This is a rare moment indeed but an Ontario Liberal has actually stated something publicly that many of us have known for a long time. And here we thought that a truthful Ontario Liberal was an oxymoron! [Read more...]
So, Premier McGuinty has promised 50,000 Green Jobs for Ontario. Fantastic! Excellent! Where do I get one? And, what is Green Job anyway?
The Liberal government hasn’t really defined what a Green Job is but it sure sounds great.
What also isn’t defined is how many existing jobs will be sacrificed. Making steel is a dirty process but steel is used to make wind turbine towers so is steel production now a Green Job or should we shut down all steel plants? Trucking is dirty but trucks carry all parts and equipment to solar and wind plants so is trucking now a Green Job or do we eliminate all trucks? Does it even make sense to use dirty steel and dirty trucking to create Green Energy? For Ontario a Green Job is an oximoron. Nothing more than smoke (dirty) and mirrors.
What will certainly be green is our collective faces when we come to realize that each of these Green Jobs will require a subsidy of somewhere in the order of $200,000.00 per year. This number comes out of a study of the Liberal Green Energy plan by U of Guelph professor Glenn Fox and co-author ex-banker Parker Gallant.
Green Job? More like a Green Snow Job!
What is the true cost of Green Energy in Ontario and who do we believe?
Who do we believe indeed. Premier McGuinty, who has demonstrated to be completely out of touch with reality or a spectacular liar, or U of Guelph professor Glenn Fox and co-author ex-banker Parker Gallant?
The study by Fox and Gallant concludes that “Ontario residents could end up paying some of the highest costs for electricity in the developing world because providing wind and solar energy will cost about 40% more than government estimates…”. According to this study the Liberal number crunchers didn’t include costs such as inflation, transmitting electricity to the provincial grid from wind and solar facilities and backup generation. Are you kidding me? These costs were considered insignificant to consider? Furthermore according to the study “The plan also lowballs the costs of backing up renewable energy with natural gas-fired plants when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining, saying it will cost $1.8 billion when it will likely be closer to $9.6 billion.”
In defence of the Liberal plan Energy Minister Brad Duguid attacked this study saying “There are a number of areas in there that they’ve miscalculated - probably deliberately – but certainly the conclusions they’ve reached are simply incorrect and bogus.’’ Really Minister? We are to believe you as opposed to two individuals who have staked their professional reputations and publically detailed the problems with your plan? The study is very specific in identifying the problem areas whereas the Minister simply calls the study “bogus”. Please Minister be specific, what exactly is bogus about it? Challenge the numbers that are presented and expose the writers for their ”bogus” conclusions and perhaps we’ll start believing something that comes out the Liberal government. Or are we to just accept your childish defence because our Liberal government never lies to us?
Do you use electricity in your home or business? If you’re part of the 99% that does then start getting ready for another electric shock to your wallet! A new election can’t come soon enough.
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