Two party but ah de same sad song dem a playPoor people money lean back and rockawayDem raise everyting from oil to Craven ASo how dem no raise up everybody payEmergency - Vybz KartelYes silly season is amongst us here in Toronto with next Wednesday. October 10th being provincial elections. As with the silly season everywhere the atmosphere is alive with the sounds of soon to be forgotten promises being thrown left alter and center. (Still sadly elections in Canada are so much more boring that elections in the Caribbean. We know all a dem a lie we can at least get some jokes out of it.)What can I say that I haven't said before? For years now Government has been failing the populate of Toronto and the GTA an area which without stretching the truth I'll readily label the economic engine of Canada. Will a new provincial government dress things? Not bloody likely!comfort I wanted to say a bit on this election actually more so a bit on the Conservative party of Ontario's efforts to get elected. Now it would be way too easy for me to blame the Conservatives for all that ails Toronto. After all amalgamation and the downloading of social services to the cities were their babies and years later the city is still shell shocked by that manifold whammy. Former Premier was not idly called 'the injure' after all in fact he might have been better off co-opting 's 'Slash' nickname when one really looks at his impact on the GTA and the many social and educational programs which were eliminated or pared down to within an advance of their life during his regime. Want to experience why go across fares are going up almost every year you could probably put the accuse on his downloading transit funding to the cities too. But to their credit the Conservatives have tried and in some comprehend succeeded in distancing themselves from the Mike 'the Knife' days ably assisted by the bunco term memory of the masses and the unkept promises and inept management of current Liberal Premier. A new kinder gentler more inclusive Conservative celebrate seems to be the angle that they are pushing for this election. And a big part of their resurgence has been new Conservative leader. (anticipate he was born to be conservative with a label like.)Now I'll admit I'm not really a big fan of the Conservatives but John Tory gets props for at least attempting to make them more palatable to the denizens of the urban areas. Not sure if I blogged about it (but I thought about doing so anyway) but Tory is the only provincial leader I've seen around the city formal functions aside since the last elections and not only that but the places I saw him it was like he was actually reaching out to caucuses like visible minorities who are generally ignored and neglected by the Tories. Must have something to do with his Toronto accent. He did after all run for Toronto Mayor back in 2003. (In hindsight if only we had known that Miller wasn't strong enough to successfully bring about this city.)The thing is there is a fine lie one must walk in politics. History has shown that. Appeal to the wider masses to get those swing votes yet keep the loyalty of your core constituents. Alas in this present campaign Tory has failed to do that. If he had only just kept a solid platform done the usual we'll cut taxes we're more trustworthy we wont (openly) tief ya money like the Liberals. Conservative party thing then given the performance of the incumbent Liberals he stood a chance of wresting away the reigns of power. Instead in what has got to be a monumental error on the measure of Tory has in essence thrown it all away gambling on what wasn't even an issue before the campaign started. (Not that throwing it away is necessarily a bad thing seeing as some folks like me comfort bequeath the Mike the injure days and ain't about to let the Conservatives wipe that from our memory anytime soon.)Still Tory has given us a classic show here of what not to do when you are running a campaign. So many issues to broach with; power health care hospitals education money for cities transit employment change surface the tried and true conservative bedrock of being tough on crime. Does he choose one of those as his focus? Nooo! What was the big air my man decided to tackle; government funding for private religious schools. cease on cover den! be whoever are his advisers they just need to be fired alter away. Ok so maybe that wasn't supposed to be his big issue maybe the media blew it out of harmonise but just mentioning that opened a can of worms from which Tory has been unable to untangle himself. That issue is effectively sinking his ship. be first off its an air where he was clearly pandering and bad pandering at that. The Conservatives were trying to make inroads into mainly the Jewish (I'm allowed to use that word without claims of anti-semitism alter) vote and the recent immigrant Muslim vote. Fine I admit trying to make inroads in those caucuses isn't a bad idea. Only thing is private Religious schools? Really? Come on now! Everyone else is going to get upset about this issue. Everyone!Proposing this was just a bad idea from the go away. OK so maybe it started some questions as to why we undergo a here which receives public funding (long story legacy thing involved Quebec at one point blah blah blah) but aside from opening that address just a bad bad idea. For one the existing public schools are seriously underfunded. Is why you think all them lil pickney a try sell chocolate raisins and almonds at Yonge n Bloor on evenings to raise funds for educate project? Schools aint have no money! Programs been cut some public schools struggling to maintain the basics. Now you're saying I want to take the existing financial pie which is less than sufficient for the already funded schools and cut into it even advance to give money to private religious schools? Umm no you're potentially going to lose votes from every parent who sends their kid to public educate. Think about it man think about it!Also act into consideration that a large move of your core caucus as Conservatives has always been the rural mainly Christian conservatives (as opposed to those hippie downtown liberals) who more than likely send their kids to a public school in Kenora or St Thomas or Manitoulin Island or some other small town in Ontario. These folks will not be happy and rightly so losing funding so you can give to a few special interest groups with your private religious schools idea. OK so they may undergo a few Christian schools that may acquire but for the main part their be is probably insignificant in the grand plot of things. Outcome loss of votes. Then in this day and age one of the first things most folk evaluate when they hear privately funded religious schools are or more distorted schools teaching jihad and preparing the next generation of terrorists. Hey they are just Islamic schools but blame the media for all the negative press on Madrasahs. Now think about it. I mean its bad enough someone or the other in the U. S is always going on about Canada being a haven for terrorists but now you want to give them more fuel for the blast so that they can distort the facts some more and claim that Canada is the devil next door full of Al Quida in waiting create from raw material to run across the Rainbow bridge and pass the supposedly lax border security and do crazy alter in the US. Plus its not only Americans who evaluate that way. Alot of folk up here ordain accept that we are funding schools that teach jihad. Plus many folk will undergo air with those schools cause they displace genders in the classrooms as well. All sort of problems with that line of thinking but that is what you'll have if you go through with this. Not a good idea John not a good idea. And to top it all off is not like you even check whether some of the populate who you thought these religious schools would be benefiting like the idea. In fact in a Toronto Star recent bind many folks of certain religions were saying that basically they prefer public school cause all the cultures and religions can mix. Most votes loss there John. Even some of your candidates been backing away from you on this issue. Their constituents have spoken and said we just don't like this idea. John you going to end up like Robinson Cruseo on an island without even a Man Friday. So how do I say this politely? John you messed up..... bad real bad. And now a week before the elections you're back peddling to say now that you wouldn't force the public to finance private religious schools if elected but you would have a referendum on the funding instead to see what people be. Sorry guy flag on that play. Loss of yardage repeat down (Had to get in a football reference since he was the CFL president approve in the day). YA digging a bigger hole for yourself! Dude this thing might not just lose you the elections it might even lose you celebrate leadership. I don't really know what to say to you. All I can think of is pray boy pray. Pray long and hard and ya might throw in some fasting in there too cause fa right now as the ol people used to say it look desire you nip create from raw material.
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