Liberals Win Second Straight Majority Government In Ontario

[Boingo the Clown]

Local Conservative MPP candidate John Rapin aptly summed the whole thing up:

If John Tory wasn’t the leader of this party, we would have won this riding. As a matter of fact, if John Tory hadn’t opened his fucking mouth, we would have won this riding.

Truer words have never been spoke.

What he was referring to John Tory's ("Tory" is another name for a member of the conservative party by the way) plan to break up the public schools into a bunch of separate school boards based on races and religions. *annoyed*

Now it should not take a genius to figure out that this is an exceptionally bad idea. I remember as a kid the amount of animosity that existed (and still does) between kids from the French, public, and Catholic schools, which often led to fighting. Imagine what would happen if dozens of separate schools existed. If there was ever a plan to intentionally increase ethnic tensions, this would definitely be it.

Turning this country into another Beirut or Rwanda is not the kind of policy I am in favour of.
*sniper*

Anyway, this kind of lit a fire under my ass, and ensured that I went out and voted Liberal. (I normally don't vote much, unless I feel I am fully informed about the issues.) It also must have lit a fire under a lot of people's asses, because this is the first time the Liberal party has ever won two straight majority governments in a row in Ontario since the great depression.

Of course I also had a leaning towards the Liberal government, since they provided the first cost of living increases to disability pensions in over a decade, and now that I am paying off *two* student loans with no job to depend upon *ugh*, that is something I really appreciate.

Oh well, too bad John Tory. You could have been a contender. Welcome back Dalton. *bow*

[blood imp]

Hmm... I am seriously taken back even by the NOTION of such a plan. It's an outrage! What an asshole.

I wonder if this will go down in some history books, as it is the first time what you said since the great depression. Surely that's a bit significant (at least in your local area)?

Also, your current position looks rather bad there, Boingo. :(

[Aliotroph?]

The very idea of a conservative government disgusts me. On the other hand the pathetic stance most liberals here have against losing soldiers in other countries disgusts me. And people keep wondering why I always vote for the greens.

[Boingo the Clown]

Because the remind you of spinach?

[Aliotroph?]

Well, in the case of the feds it's because they made that rule that any party with more than 2% of the vote gets $1.75 per vote. So either enough of us will cause them to have a better showing next time or they'll get a decent supply of money for bottles of coke. I don't like voting for big parties if I don't need to. In Alberta I tend to vote Liberal because they're the only thing even close to touching the stupid Tories.

[Heidi]

I don't particularly care for race as long as everyone non-white is white-washed, and as a skeptic, I'm fine with any religion that's respectful of the human rights of innocent people. That having been said, I don't see a problem with sticking to one's kind, but the issue here is that it's unethical for a government to keep people from mixing against their will.

A more reasonable approach would be leaving regular schools intact and open new whatever-only ones for those who believe it's a good idea to be isolated from the rest.

And people keep wondering why I always vote for the greens

Voting green is voting grass :D