... after the debate
There's only a few things which I don't like in our country today. First and foremost Sun/Quebecor Media. Not necessarily the company or employees themselves but more specifically their executive and/or editorial boards. The boys in the back room who decided long ago to smear one political candidate and prop up another, and all without the balanced, fair news reporting they are supposed to adhere to. It's turning into the FoxNews of Canada, slagging the Dems and believing Bush.
Too bad these decision making editors and journalists have never taken any kind of oath of office like doctors or lawyers. Maybe that's how anyone can end up writing for the Toronto Sun while most of their good reporters just leave. Even their sports reporters aren't any good. I said years ago that Al Strachan was 'the worst hockey journalist in the business' and it seems people are finally starting to listen to me about that. What I find even more odd, is that the readership for Sun newspapers are the general working class folk who normally follow the NDP. Sun readership is not comprised of the $100K + annual income families who actually benefit by a Tory government, but the $15/hr tradesmen who have traditionally been the target of Tory forces and policy. And it's not just the TorontoSUN but TVA in Quebec too (another SunMedia/Quebecor company). The Liberals could announce a cure for cancer and they'd be thrown to the wayside.
I understand that people in our country are pissed off by the Liberal government and the whole AdScam thing. Spending $288 million on sponsorships was not a 'bad idea', nor was the Option Canada either (especially since the Parti Quebecois did the exact same thing). How the money got distributed was the problem. One thing which gets overlooked is that it wasn't the Tories, Bloc or NDP who found out or broke the story on AdScam. It was the Auditor General (i.e. the Liberals). They found out about the mismanagement of funds in their own house and resolved the issue. I really doubt the Conservatives or Bloc would do that. How come no one writes about that? Oh I know, they're a self serving sensationalist media company who needs to sell newspapers by using outlandish headlines instead of real substance.
Oh - and if you're looking for cheap daycare, stay away from the Tories. The Liberals have a nationalized daycare system which benefits parents the most. It models the system used in Quebec where parents spend $5 - $7 a day. Compare that to $55/day in Ontario. Harper's plan will save you a dollar a day, the Liberals will save you $50. The plan makes sense too: Control the daycare on a national level - in bulk - allowing parents to actually go back to work. Therefore, it's paid out in the back end by way of income taxes collected. The Tories seem to be content on letting parents stay at home with the kids because it's too expensive for them to pay for daycare. They feel a GST cut would be better and will balance out the needs of stay at home parents. But they don't seem to understand that the GST is a consumption tax and needs to be spent in order to be saved. I have to ask, if you're a stay at home parent with no real income coming in, how much money do you have to consume with ?? Harper doesn't have a plan for that now does he.
Too bad these decision making editors and journalists have never taken any kind of oath of office like doctors or lawyers. Maybe that's how anyone can end up writing for the Toronto Sun while most of their good reporters just leave. Even their sports reporters aren't any good. I said years ago that Al Strachan was 'the worst hockey journalist in the business' and it seems people are finally starting to listen to me about that. What I find even more odd, is that the readership for Sun newspapers are the general working class folk who normally follow the NDP. Sun readership is not comprised of the $100K + annual income families who actually benefit by a Tory government, but the $15/hr tradesmen who have traditionally been the target of Tory forces and policy. And it's not just the TorontoSUN but TVA in Quebec too (another SunMedia/Quebecor company). The Liberals could announce a cure for cancer and they'd be thrown to the wayside.
I understand that people in our country are pissed off by the Liberal government and the whole AdScam thing. Spending $288 million on sponsorships was not a 'bad idea', nor was the Option Canada either (especially since the Parti Quebecois did the exact same thing). How the money got distributed was the problem. One thing which gets overlooked is that it wasn't the Tories, Bloc or NDP who found out or broke the story on AdScam. It was the Auditor General (i.e. the Liberals). They found out about the mismanagement of funds in their own house and resolved the issue. I really doubt the Conservatives or Bloc would do that. How come no one writes about that? Oh I know, they're a self serving sensationalist media company who needs to sell newspapers by using outlandish headlines instead of real substance.
Oh - and if you're looking for cheap daycare, stay away from the Tories. The Liberals have a nationalized daycare system which benefits parents the most. It models the system used in Quebec where parents spend $5 - $7 a day. Compare that to $55/day in Ontario. Harper's plan will save you a dollar a day, the Liberals will save you $50. The plan makes sense too: Control the daycare on a national level - in bulk - allowing parents to actually go back to work. Therefore, it's paid out in the back end by way of income taxes collected. The Tories seem to be content on letting parents stay at home with the kids because it's too expensive for them to pay for daycare. They feel a GST cut would be better and will balance out the needs of stay at home parents. But they don't seem to understand that the GST is a consumption tax and needs to be spent in order to be saved. I have to ask, if you're a stay at home parent with no real income coming in, how much money do you have to consume with ?? Harper doesn't have a plan for that now does he.
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