{"id":11276,"date":"2011-09-22T09:56:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T13:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11276"},"modified":"2011-09-22T17:14:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T21:14:34","slug":"this-is-why-the-ontario-election-has-been-such-a-snooze-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/09\/22\/this-is-why-the-ontario-election-has-been-such-a-snooze-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"This is why the Ontario election has been such a snooze-fest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott Stinson<\/a> explains that there is barely any difference between the warmed-over bowl of snot being offered by Premier Dalton McGuinty and the bucket of snot that Tim Hudak’s Progressive Conservatives would like you to choose instead:<\/p>\n

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Mr. McGuinty himself put it this way: \u201cHe\u2019s basically saying, \u2018Whatever McGuinty\u2019s doing on health care, I\u2019ll do that. Whatever McGuinty\u2019s doing on education, I\u2019ll do that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

This is not entirely true, since there are certain differences in the way the governing Liberals and the opposition PCs would address each file — Mr. Hudak, to pick one example, vows to scrap the Local Health Integration Networks that were brought in under the McGuinty government. But on the whole, both men say they would govern Ontario, a province with a recently ballooned deficit and with a highly optimistic plan to return to balance, by spending the same amount on its most costly ministries.<\/p>\n

This, however, does not make for a particularly compelling battle cry. \u201cA Vote for Hudak Is A Vote For Incremental Change!\u201d Or \u201cVote Liberal: We\u2019re Pretty Much Like the Other Guy But Our Signs Are a More Pleasing Red.\u201d And so, the leaders would much rather play up their differences. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This may be the first election since I became eligible to vote that I will not bother to go to the polls. I have the incumbent PC candidate, a Liberal, an NDP’er, and a Green. That is, centre-left, centre-left, left, and enviro-fascist. Such<\/em> a choice!<\/p>\n

Update<\/b>: I’m clearly not alone in my distate<\/a> for all the electoral options:<\/p>\n

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Hudak has forfeited a slam-dunk opportunity to ride that conservative tidal wave that made Rob Ford mayor and gave Stephen Harper a majority. He could\u2019ve run on a simple \u201crespect for taxpayers\u201d platform, promising to axe the HST. That alone would\u2019ve carried the day. Instead, he yammers on about chain gangs.<\/p>\n

Come Oct. 6, I\u2019m choosing option \u201cD\u201d on Ontario\u2019s multiple-choice quiz: None of the Above.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m declining my ballot. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scott Stinson explains that there is barely any difference between the warmed-over bowl of snot being offered by Premier Dalton McGuinty and the bucket of snot that Tim Hudak’s Progressive Conservatives would like you to choose instead: Mr. McGuinty himself put it this way: \u201cHe\u2019s basically saying, \u2018Whatever McGuinty\u2019s doing on health care, I\u2019ll do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,53],"tags":[584,188,739],"class_list":["post-11276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-politics","tag-daltonmcguinty","tag-electionwatch","tag-timhudak"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2VS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11276"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11285,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276\/revisions\/11285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}