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I read this morning that Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has sided with Quebec Premier Jean Charest against Bill C-10, the Omnibus Crime Bill. Both Premiers have committed to not paying for a single cent of the new bill. If you are reading this in BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan or Manitoba, please email your Premier, your justice minister, your MLA, you opposition critic and your opposition leader and pressure them to stand up to the Conservative governments crime bill. It’s wrong on crime, and it’s bad for taxpayers.
UPDATE: Looks like Manitoba wont be falling inline with Ontario and Quebec. From the Winnipeg Free Press and Attorney General Andrew Swan:
No. 1, public safety has a cost…We’ll meet that cost..Because we called for many of the things that are in there, we’re hoping that the law gets passed and we can get on with it.
You can read the full article here. http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/provinces-feds-bicker-over-cost-of-crime-bill-133058173.html
My question: How does the NDP square this? They constantly prop up the Manitoba NDP as the pinnacle of NDP excellence. Apparently it would seem that when it comes to spending taxpayers money stupidly, they also corner the market. It should be noted that the Manitoba NDP have also supported cutting corporate taxes, something the Federal NDP and BC NDP have been strongly against (can’t say for sure about other provinces).
Cross posted at The Ryan Painter Show
It now appears Newfoundland-Labrador have joined the other two in balking at paying
Great advice, Logan. If we can make more provinces join in rejecting this omnibus crime bill, we may actually succeed in stopping it. Amazing that we’ve come to a point where we have to rely on provincial constitutional rights in protecting federalism.
When it passes we will still pay,one way or another.
I will be surprised if Manitoba and PEI do not join Quebec and Ontario as well in balking at paying.
As an Ontarian, I am just glad that McGuinty won because Hudak would have likely bent over backwards to saddle us with these costs. Speaking about Hudak, it is interesting that his federal cousins are now apparently proposing “affirmative action” for some types of “foreign workers”: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/11/02/pol-jason-kenney-immigration-targets.html. The inconsistencies/hypocrisies of Cons are simply amazing — lol
I think it’s likely Christy and her Crunchy party will fall in line with Harpo, which is why I’m lobbying hard to get people to email, write, do whatever they can to the MLA’s and opposition in BC to get the BC Liberals to follow McGuinty and Charest. Here’s hoping.
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November 2nd, 2011 at 11:48 PM
Crunchy! LoL! I don’t get why any premier of any stripe would go with this bill. At the very least, why would any premier be ga ga giddy gung ho to tax their citizens for a bill the feds are forcing?
The whole shebang is just another example of the Spiteful One aping policies that even his idol Yanks are beginning to realize are failures. However the idea of the provinces balking at picking up the tab is a moot point or straw man, since even if “King of the Canadian Taliban” Steve provides money from Ottawa, which ultimately comes from the SAME TAXPAYERS (and not his corporate cronies)!
Campbell worked for Harper. I’m not surprised at Christy supporting Harper either. I would have been totally surprised if she didn’t.
Christy had her route set out for her, by both Harper and Campbell. Her government, is no different than Campbell’s. Harper as a dictator, has to control absolutely everything, as did Campbell. Look what’s going on with the Canadian Wheat Board.
I don’t recognize this country anymore. I am no longer proud to be a Canadian. Canada has become rotten with corruption. Canada’s good name is being dragged through the muck and mire. Even other country’s media have said, how badly Harper is destroying democracy in Canada. Other country’s don’t recognize Canada either. And, that’s to the worse, not the good.