Good God, does McGuinty ever stop?
I'm no fan of the truculent, angry Flaherty, but when it comes to causing panic, Dalton is a world-class expert.
He tossed the secure future of Ontario's supply of electricity - what used to be Ontario's greatest competitive advantage - to the wind.
Now, after several years of dithering and uncertainty and blubbering about the environment, he's fixed on a gigantic nuclear project.
The poor people of Caledonia have been tossed into a lawless pit and forgotten by Dalton. Try starting a business there or selling a house. People beaten up and vandalism have become ordinary events.
Toronto's disgraceful closure of its landfill and launching an armada of garbage trucks rumbling 230 miles to Michigan and back, every day, was long completely ignored by this great environmentalist. The entire episode is a disgraceful example of reckless behavior towards the environment and ugly NIMBYism.
He won't burn garbage for energy, but he'll build an ugly gas-fired plant right on Toronto's lakefront, just as the city continues to struggle with improving its lakefront for recreation.
McGuinty claimed to be ending uncertainty with his imposition of elections every four years. What did he really do with this measure? He ended uncertainty for the ruling party to spend millions of public funds on infantile ads just in advance of the election, a tidal wave of publicly-funded rubbish washing over people, and an ugly precedent for the future.
