{"id":13616,"date":"2012-02-18T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T05:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=13616"},"modified":"2012-02-17T16:34:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T21:34:48","slug":"somewhere-in-the-near-eternal-labyrinth-of-the-drummond-report-there-must-be-evidence-that-the-mcguintys-liberal-government-did-something-right-over-the-last-decade-if-there-is-i-haven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/18\/somewhere-in-the-near-eternal-labyrinth-of-the-drummond-report-there-must-be-evidence-that-the-mcguintys-liberal-government-did-something-right-over-the-last-decade-if-there-is-i-haven\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Somewhere in the near-eternal labyrinth of the Drummond report there must be evidence that the McGuinty\u2019s Liberal government did something right over the last decade. If there is, I haven\u2019t found it yet.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opinion.financialpost.com\/2012\/02\/16\/terence-corcoran-the-big-mcguinty-switch\/\" target=\"_blank\">Terence Corcoran<\/a> brings the gloom on the Ontario government&#8217;s most likely response to the Drummond report:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ontario, get ready for The Big McGuinty. The 562-page report from the government-appointed Commission on the Reform of Ontario\u2019s Public Services, chaired by economist Don Drummond, has all the makings of a diversionary shell game in which everybody is directed to follow the pea of spending cuts while the real game is something else.<\/p>\n<p>With attention now focused on carving Mr. Drummond\u2019s 362 recommended slices off the great Ontario spending bologna, the real bait-and-switch objective, The Big McGuinty of this giant exercise in fiscal self-flagellation, is something else altogether: tax increases.<\/p>\n<p>Does anybody seriously think the Liberal government of the Rev. Dalton McGuinty, after a decade of installing feel-good spending increases and extravagant policy schemes, is suddenly going to roll it all back and reverse a decade of ideological commitment to government intervention and liberal spending programs?<\/p>\n<p>The Drummond report would require policy-backtracking on a vast scale. Somewhere in the near-eternal labyrinth of the Drummond report there must be evidence that the McGuinty\u2019s Liberal government did something right over the last decade. If there is, I haven\u2019t found it yet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terence Corcoran brings the gloom on the Ontario government&#8217;s most likely response to the Drummond report: Ontario, get ready for The Big McGuinty. The 562-page report from the government-appointed Commission on the Reform of Ontario\u2019s Public Services, chaired by economist Don Drummond, has all the makings of a diversionary shell game in which everybody is [&hellip;]<\/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":[6,25,84,53],"tags":[697,584,71,87,118],"class_list":["post-13616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-economics","category-government","category-politics","tag-budget","tag-daltonmcguinty","tag-debt","tag-ontario","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3xC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13616","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=13616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13618,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13616\/revisions\/13618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}