CANCELLED GAS PLANT COSTS US $275 MILLION

Today's Waterloo Region Record carrys this story "Cancelled gas plant cost Ontario $275 million". This of course refers to the Mississauga plant that was mothballed days before the last provincial election. The opposition parties (Conservative & NDP) have referred to this as the Liberal "seat saver" program. Bought and paid for of course with your taxes and mine. Is there any silver lining in this fiasco? In my humble opinion there is. We've been receiving from some media, the left, NGO's and various activists all kinds of dire warnings about the behaviour of our federal Conservative government. This especially concerns environmental dismantlings, muzzling of scientists, attack ads even between elections and just general overall criticism of the right. So here's the good news. Our centrist and sometimes slightly left provincial Liberal party are working very hard to show that the right absolutely does not have a monopoly on either stupidity or a lack of ethics. All voters please pay attention to this. No party is immune.

This power plant has since been moved to the Sarnia area. Opposition parties are still pressing the government for more information although very few Ontarians are likely to forget who wasted their money and that it was for gross partisan political benefit. This fiasco will go along way towards a changing of the guard in Ontario's next provincial election.