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Below, is the text of the Letter of The Editor that I sent this morning to The Picton Gazette:

Dear Editor,

 Surprise, surprise, yet another Editorial from The Picton Gazette bashing the Liberals in the upcoming Provincial election but also applauding Tim Hudak and the Progressive Conservative Party!  To quote Popeye “That’s all I can stands, I can’t stands no more.”  If you really want to inform your readers then why not accurately label the villain in the piece? 

Tim Hudak and the Conservatives are not to be trusted nor should they be elected.  First, his economic plan of creating a million jobs by cutting 100,000 jobs makes no sense and has yet to find any support from any economist.  If he cannot take the advice of professionals, what makes us think he’d take the advice of the electorate?  You get what you vote for and what makes you think he’ll stop at the 100,000?  If elected, he might think he has the will of the people to go even further and suddenly 100,000 becomes 150,000 or more.

Last time around, under Mike Harris, with Tim Hudak sitting around the table, the Conservatives slashed social assistance rates by almost 22% and axed a number of social housing and affordable housing projects.  Now Hudak, in his ‘what is old is new again’ plan, wants to make more cuts to social assistance payments.  Talk about wanting to build the economy on the backs of the poorest of its citizens!  That’s right, let’s tear down the social safety net while we’re waiting for these million pie in the sky jobs to appear.

Tim Hudak also wants to eliminate the home renovation tax credit for seniors that would allow seniors to stay in their homes longer.  Tim seems to think that it’s cheaper to put seniors into long term care rather than allowing them to live in their own home.  Let’s not even mention the dignity of living in a home where you built your life.

What about students?  Under the Conservatives, the 30 per cent tuition grant for most Ontario college and university students would be eliminated.  He wants to create jobs but also hinder access to higher education so students can get a better paying job.  Many students can’t afford a post-secondary education and now Hudak wants to make sure even less students can get a College or University diploma!

And yet more cuts to Education?  Hudak wants to increase the classroom sizes.  He also wants all day Kindergarten to be taught by only one Teacher with no assistants.  I’d like to see him try to manage, let alone teach, a classroom of 26 three to five year olds all on his own every day.  Parents and teachers have fought for years to make sure the cap on the classroom sizes were appropriate.  No one wins in this scenario.

If Hudak wins, it’s fair game against children, students, seniors, and poor people.  Is it any wonder that I have a yellow sign on my front lawn that says “We Will Not Be Voting Conservative!”

 

     Just so this blahg is not all political, let me add the following musical gem.  This is from an LP I picked up recently by Peter Appleyard.  The LP is “Percussive Jazz” and the track is “Why Don’t You Do Right.”

Why don’t you do right and vote…just not Conservative!

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