WYNNE & THE LIBERALS TAKE A LICKING AT THE LEADERS DEBATE

Luisa D'Amato has an Opinion piece in today's Waterloo Region Record titled "Wynne put on the defensive in lively leaders' debate". Apparently it took no time at all for both opposition parties (NDP & Conservative) to jump all over Kathleen Wynne for her and her partie's gas plant scandal. It was otherwise known as the "seat saver" program in the legislature and for short term gains the Liberals are paying now. Between this scandal, the e-health financial debacle and Ornge Ambulance failures and costs the Liberals have earned the right to come in dead last in the upcoming election. The Liberals loss however does not need come at the expense of having Tim Hudak and the Tories back in power. Granted his brag of reducing the public sector by 100,000 bodies and of allegedly creating 1,000,000 jobs is recent hot air; nevertheless that combined with more corporate tax cuts is typical Tory agenda territory. Also recently he was all about dropping the Rand formula, the decades old comprimise that has sucessfully brought labour peace and civility to unionized labour negotiations. Both provincial and federal Conservative hidden agendas are all about reducing wages and the middle class. Reducing corporate profits or magnificent salaries well past the "sunshine list" bottom end ($100,000) are not part of Conservative austerity.

For me this election is relatively easy. God no to more of either the Liberals or the Conservatives. They've monopolized political power forever both federally and provincially and both equally share the blame for stagnant wages, high unemployment and home costs still rising in the middle of a recession. A pox on both their houses.