May 31, 2013

Other than religion, what to talk about?

Been a long time since I wrote and whined....

Living in Toronto nowadays is like being in the world's largest political maelstrom ever.

Not sure the exact order, but we got a Fed scandal, a Provincial scandal and of course the City's own little ditty all in the span of a few months. I could be wrong, but the fed scandal was the first, with Duellin' Dalton cancelling the gas plants prior to the last election, saying publicly that the cost of doing so was negligible, even tho opposition claimed it to be in the “hundreds of millions” later to be found to have cost something in the area of $580 million dollars.

Vanished – poof – now-u-see-it-now-you-don't kinda stuff. $580 million!

What can be done with that amount of money – that doesn't involve throwing it away?


  1. Pay for about a fifth of the Toronto Subway expansion
  2. Fund approximately 100 schools in Ontario for one year
  3. Pay down Provincial debt
  4. Build approximately 2300 low cost family houses across the province
  5. Pay for two fucking political riding's


Of course, Squinty McGuinty seeing the house of cards crumbling, shocks everyone last fall by announcing that he's stepping down almost a year to the day after winning the election – leaving us in a no-Wynn situation, different look, different voice, same rhetoric. As a result of his Holyless' resignation, Onatarian's, hot on the heels of the $580 million dollar flush, will now see an election called two years or more before it's supposed to happen...chalk those expenses up to the mighty Fiberals.

Meanwhile, somewhere in Ottawa...

The Rotund one, former political commentator-turned politician, Mike Duffy (Never to be mistaken with Jared, the Subway diet dude), expects us to believe that the Prime Minister of Canada's top Aide cutting him a personal cheque for $90,000.00 to re-pay the senator's expenses isn't an odd-sounding thing? Mike, in all your years hosting Sunday Mornings on CTV, did you ever hear of this happening? Of course not Mike – Bribes are SUPPOSED TO BE KEPT OFF THE RECORD ya dumb-ass.

Of course, former CTV team mate Pammy Wallin is now under the gun on her expenses as is at least one other senator. It's not $580 million folks, but heinous? You bet your sweet bippy it is – it's as smelly as it gets, and these derelicts are likely to walk away unscathed – or at least unscathed criminally, I do suspect however that they'll lose that cushy Senator role and the pension that goes with it.

Prime Minister Little Steven, for his part denies any knowledge of this affair, and defends that fact. There is something about the bulk of the email trail being destroyed – that's not a problem however – That's good governance!

Then of course, there is home, the wonderful haven of Toronto where our Mayor, Mayor McCheeseburger, is doing his best to ensure that Toronto is mentioned in every newspaper in the world. Ford believes that this is a much cheaper and more effective method of promoting tourism for our great city.

Toronto, the little city that grew up & along the way might have dabbled in illegal pharmaceuticals ....more than once.

Actually for me, the least heinous of all of these events is the one in Toronto, the one that can't stop stealing headlines worldwide. Dare I say that it becomes a helluva lot more heinous when the video appears, assuming of course that there is one. But Ford, for all his lunacy and desperate stupidity hasn't really cost us a whole lot of money. Hasn't really done anything actually – which is definitely a problem, but I wasn't trying to focus of the political abilities of any of these people, just that they are all fucked.

Complete morons and thieves are running our cities, our provinces and the country, and we as Canadians are sitting here, leaning towards giving all of these parties another shot (Okay Maybe Lumpy won't have a shot in Toronto again, but whatever) at another 4 or 5 years?

Anyone (yes Verm you too!) who is planning on voting for either the Provincial Liberals or the Federal PC's (yea or the Ford Twins for that matter) should really look themselves in the mirror and ask if that is the best way to use or misuse your hard earned tax dollars.

Personally, I don't think it is.

posted by G.M. Shier @ Friday, May 31, 2013

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