Former NDP Premier of Ontario, Bob Rae gave his speech at the Canadian Club and contrary to rumours he did not announce that he was throwing his hat into the ring for leadership of the Liberal party.
According to this report Calgary Herald Rae still needs a few more days to think and opine on the issue. If you ask me, Bob needs more than a few Rae Days but just how long does it take to process a liberal party membership anyhow?
I still think Occam’s Carbuncle wound make a better leader for the Liberal party. Imagine, I might even have to vote, and Liberal…..then I’m thinking maybe Jay Jardine for Minister of Transportation and the Journal of N=1 for Finance – that’s my idea of fiscal reform I could live with.
(Tipped off by Neale News)
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I would be proud to serve. I'll wait for the call. Might have to change the name to the Classical Liberal Party, though.
OC
Here is a good exerpt from the book The Dark Side by Steve Paikin:
Mike Harris successfully contested the 1995 election by convincing voters that the David Peterson-Bob Rae era represented "ten lost years" for the province of Ontario. In fact, for a large part of the electorate, some of the numbers were rather distressing. In those ten years, government spending has nearly doubled from $29 billion to $54 billion. From Confederation to the last budget in the 1985 fiscal year, successive Ontario governments had accumulated $33 billion in debt. By the time the Liberals were out of office, that figure had moved up to $40 billion. The Liberals held power during amazingly buoyant times, yet only balanced one budget, despite sky-high revenues due to dozens of tax increases and a booming economy.
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When the economy tanked while the NDP was in power, budget deficits routinely grew to more than $10 billion a year. The incoming Harris government said the deficit would have hit $18 billion had it not imposed some emergency cuts upon taking office. By the time the NDP left office in 1995, the debt had surpassed a breathtakingly high $100 billion.
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