Home
Search:
1146 feeds
357 categories
0 articles (<24 hours)
29 registered users

Use the Mobile version
Mobile

Follow our Twitter feed

View our Linkpartners
Links

Username:
Password:

Register | Retrieve

Sports


RSS FeedsMartin Regg Cohn: Kathleen Wynne´s day in Doug Ford´s kangaroo court
(The Star Toronto Raptors)

 
 

4 december 2018 04:10:30

 
Martin Regg Cohn: Kathleen Wynne´s day in Doug Ford´s kangaroo court
(The Star Toronto Raptors)
 


News flash: Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives won a thumping majority government on June 7.So why are the Tories still such sore winners?Someone should remind Doug Ford that he vanquished the New Democrats. And vapourized the Liberals.Six months later, this might be a good time to ask: Why not be gracious in victory, rather than trying to settle scores real or imagined?Why do his loyal Tories leap to their feet, applauding wildly almost every time Ford speaks in the legislature? Why does the premier hurl insults at opposition MPPs unlike any of his predecessors?The churlishness started on election night, when Ford broke with tradition by big-footing Kathleen Wynne — talking over her on TV before she could finish her concession speech. A minor point of protocol, perhaps, but it set the tone.Read more: Ford fears disgruntled Tory MPPs might defect to Liberals, source saysOpinion | Martin Regg Cohn: Follow the money as Doug Ford disrupts our democracyOpinion | Martin Regg Cohn: The rise and fall of Kathleen Wynne’s LiberalsIn one of his first acts as premier, he went after Wynne by accusing her of financial improprieties. Ford created a special committee to examine how the Liberals ran the province’s finances — pursuing his predecessors with unprecedented venom.On Monday, Wynne set foot in the lion’s den — or more precisely, the kangaroo court. For nearly three hours, she faced questions from a gaggle of Progressive Conservative MPPs about her “fair hydro plan,” which borrowed billions of dollars to deliver the rate reductions that the Tories had been clamouring for in opposition (and which they are quietly retaining now in government).The committee hearings are not exactly a Stalinist show trial, but they are akin to a reality show — and very much for show. Flexing his majority muscle, Ford packed the committee with his own loyal MPPs and a couple of New Democrats, but not a single Liberal — on th ...


 
28 viewsCategory: Sports > Ball Sports > Basketball > NBA > Toronto Raptors
 
York school board trustee criticized for racially offensive Facebook posts sworn in despite protests
(The Star Toronto Raptors)
Rosie DiManno: Nylander and Leafs get back to business
(The Star Toronto Raptors)
 
 
blog comments powered by Disqus


Copyright © 2008 - 2024 Indigonet Services B.V.. Contact: Tim Hulsen. Read here our privacy notice.
Other websites of Indigonet Services B.V.: Nieuws Vacatures Science Tweets Nachrichten