Is Ontario headed for another Wynne win?

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Can non sense truly exist or is that virtual ? Intangible ... some slick how intelligence slips away ...

Even early generators of dictionaries stated that intelligence distanced itself from volition (the power of will)! I get an image of Wellies and the mocking bird ... mimic and run ... similar species to a road runner ... be dynamic ... like XLax ... move ...
 
Congratulations to Doug Ford even though I didn't vote for him.
What is the date he officially becomes premiere?
 
Congratulations to Doug Ford even though I didn't vote for him.
What is the date he officially becomes premiere?

Not sure there's a fixed date. Depends how quickly he can choose a cabinet and get a transition team going. Keep in mind that we really haven't had a transition in Ontario since the Liberals took power in 2003. Wynne was a direct successor to McGuinty and had been in his cabinet so there wasn't really a transition after she took over.
 
The 2003 election was held on October 2 and the Throne Speech was delivered on November 19. Using that time scale, we'd be looking at mid or even late July, but the legislature usually recesses for the summer by then so they may just deliver the speech, then recess and deal with substantive business in the Fall. So I imagine the PCs will be sworn in by early July but don't expect much legislative action until September.
 
The 2003 election was held on October 2 and the Throne Speech was delivered on November 19. Using that time scale, we'd be looking at mid or even late July, but the legislature usually recesses for the summer by then so they may just deliver the speech, then recess and deal with substantive business in the Fall. So I imagine the PCs will be sworn in by early July but don't expect much legislative action until September.
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This result is going to embolden the religious bigots. In return, there will be a backlash of anti-religious sentiment. Just watch.
 
This result is going to embolden the religious bigots. In return, there will be a backlash of anti-religious sentiment. Just watch.

Reaction always follows action ... it is natural ... but some of that gang say only the supernatural counts ...

One philosopher said that things you didn't know becoming familiar to yah is like magic conversion (supernatural?) tis like a stone to others ... they don't wish to learn hardly anything other than what was learned in the second rite of passages ... between ages 7 and 14 ...

A psychologist from a theological institution reinforced this for me ... I've been evil and gladly learned more ... just to upset those who didn't desire me to ...

Tis a funny sort of competition compared to the conflict for physical power ... you could loose the young head you had a long time ago ... making that like elder intellect?

Sometimes appears as a wild resurrection ... spontaneous combustion of old fires burning away where the principles weren't aware ... Machiavellian flames as dark powers?

Poorly understood as they are not easily observed ... is getting the stoic on either side to learn very difficult?

More middle folk are needed ... interims ... rims can be role 'd ... you can almost smell those at the edge of their potential ...
 
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This result is going to embolden the religious bigots. In return, there will be a backlash of anti-religious sentiment. Just watch.

It will embolden but I suspect it will also frustrate them in the end. As happened with Harper, and seemed to be happening with Brown prior to his downfall, I wouldn't be surprised to find the Ford administration hew closer to the centre now that they are in power, marginalizing the more extreme end of the base. His tough talk to get them on side won't necessarily translate to action once he realizes that a significant percentage of his vote came from centre and centre-right people fed up with the Liberals and not willing to go NDP, who will flee the PCs in 2022 if he hews too far right and the Libs come back to the centre. Scrapping the sex ed curriculum might fly, or at least get a pass, with that group. Attacking abortion, women's, or LGBTQ rights likely will not.
 
But they will come out of the shadows with all this stuff, and Ford won't be able to keep his MPPs silent forever. They will open their mouths, and their supporters will definitely open theirs. It will be glorious.
 
But they will come out of the shadows with all this stuff, and Ford won't be able to keep his MPPs silent forever. They will open their mouths, and their supporters will definitely open theirs. It will be glorious.

Echoes of Jabber Waukee, one walking the way of hormones ... Alice ... beware of the hole ... it could be ra' bid ... like waking chimera !

Then there is Sophia ... in one tradition wisdom ... in another Gnosticism! Does this support a fey route of unintelligent behaviour?

Then the church father eliminated Gnosticism ... for what reason other than to support common unknowing?

Thus wisdom was denied in the first heaven ... second? One step at a time when dealing with thin space ... especially the bubble that appears as the human psyche ... it differs from what perhaps is beyond ...

Obviously there is a darker other side to this nonsense ... like soffit derived from Sophist that trough under the edge ... place for over flow?

Can you imagine how such stories were constructed ... inclusive of the roofer and the fiddler within? Almost cause for blackout of worse, abstract ... something to be left alone? See how it behaves about the hum my period of buzz ...

Like politics someone will be bored after the honey Moa 'n ...
 
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But they will come out of the shadows with all this stuff, and Ford won't be able to keep his MPPs silent forever.

Maybe. Harper did a pretty good job of it, though. There were a few rough spots in his first couple campaigns, but he eventually put his foot down. Even his so-con supporters weren't too loud about his handling of same sex marriage and failure to address abortion. They knew the alternative and let him do things his way.

Whether the Ford has the discipline and personality to similarly reign things in may be the big question. It certainly has not been his style so far. Whatever you think of Harper's politics and faith, he's a very thoughtful, shrewd, capable operator. Ford is more of a bull in a china shop.
 
I dont see any such promises in his list of things he will do on his campaign page.

He mooted allowing MPPs to introduce private members' bills on abortion and other so-con issues (whereas Harper would likely have snuffed them out fairly quickly). The scrapping of the sex ed curriculum was definitely part of his position.

However, he certainly didn't run as a so-con per se, just tossed out enough so-con items to get them on side after he sidelined their darling, Granic-Allen.

As I suggested, I suspect he'll end up hewing a kind of chaotic centre-right, lurching from idea to idea to idea as he did in the campaign. I hope not. I hope his Cabinet manages to keep things orderly and coherent. However, that certainly is not his style.
 
The one and only agreement I have with DF's policies is with regard to cannabis distribution -- to have free market distribution vs gov't outlets.I would also advocate this for microbreweries. Now he's apparently flip flopped on that too.
The death of Anthony Bourdain is more on my mind today, quite frankly.
Democracy is a bitch.
 
Is Doug Ford planning on cutting the minimum wage?

For all the ire directed at the increase, I suspect that a cut will be an equally tough sell, even if it's with different people. And Wynne likely knew that when she did it. He never, AFAIK, actually promised to roll it back. That's not to say he won't, but he'd have to throw a bone of some kind to the workers affected because some of them are, no doubt, among his supporters. He could possibly do it under the auspices of budget cutting, since provincial and municipal governments employ a lot of minimum wage workers, esp. in summer, or may argue that he's helping promote growth by reducing "cost burdens unnecessarily forced on businesses" (something like that anyhow). It's potentially a political hot potato though so I imagine even Ford will tread with care.
 
For all the ire directed at the increase, I suspect that a cut will be an equally tough sell, even if it's with different people. And Wynne likely knew that when she did it. He never, AFAIK, actually promised to roll it back. That's not to say he won't, but he'd have to throw a bone of some kind to the workers affected because some of them are, no doubt, among his supporters. He could possibly do it under the auspices of budget cutting, since provincial and municipal governments employ a lot of minimum wage workers, esp. in summer, or may argue that he's helping promote growth by reducing "cost burdens unnecessarily forced on businesses" (something like that anyhow). It's potentially a political hot potato though so I imagine even Ford will tread with care.
Well I know he mentioned that low wage earners wouldn't have to pay taxes, so I wondered if coupled with lowering minimum wage it would still look messy.
 
Well I know he mentioned that low wage earners wouldn't have to pay taxes, so I wondered if coupled with lowering minimum wage it would still look messy.

Depends on how he balanced the two off. I suspect that a wise finance minister would push him to do the tax cut first so they see the effects from it before they see the effects of the wage cut. Might blunt their anger a bit.

I'm curious about how he'll respond to the York U strike.

Universities are in a funny relationship with the province. They are technically independent in that they have an independent board and are incorporated rather than directly run by the ministry, but the province still provides the bulk of the funding and licenses them. So, they are supposed to be arms-length but there's probably justification for the province to get involved should it choose to do so. And I'm not sure he'd piss off too many people outside of academia and unions, neither of whom are big supporters of his to start with, if he did so. So a strike-breaker law is a distinct possibility, esp. if he wants to start playing hardball with labour in general.
 
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