In the run up to the American election, Jeb Bush called Donald Trump "the chaos candidate;" and he predicted that Trump would be "a chaos president." Doug Ford has proved to be a chaos premier. But he's not the first. Tom Walkom writes:
As former PC premier Mike Harris discovered, what Ontarians really dislike is chaos.
Like Ford, Harris was elected on a promise to disrupt — in his words, to bring a common-sense revolution to Ontario.
For a while after he took power in 1995, that disruption was popular — popular enough to get him re-elected four years later.
But eventually, Harris’ version of permanent revolution wore the province down. There were simply too many teachers’ strikes, too many spending cuts, too much commotion.
Harris saw the writing on the wall and bailed out before his term in office ended.
Ford's decision to cap public sector wages at 1% will trigger labour chaos in the province:
To a labour movement already soured on the Ford government, it is a direct provocation.
In effect, the bill would eliminate the right of unions to bargain the most important part of any collective agreement — wages and compensation.
In any new contracts with public sector unions, the bill would limit increases in “compensation entitlements,” including but not limited to wage and salaries, to one per cent a year for three years.
Those covered by the bill include direct employees of the provincial government and its crown corporations, teachers and other education workers as well as those working in universities, colleges, hospitals and long-term care homes.
Ontarians have seen this movie before and they kicked the producers out as soon as they had the chance. Obviously, Mr. Ford was not paying attention during the film's first run.
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4 comments:
Sadly, Canadian voters are intent of voting against the Liberals in the fall as opposed to voting for something. TgeresT no wonder Dougie got instructions to close the Ontario government until after the federal election so as to avoid drawing too much attention to umassivehitrain wreck of management.
Sad, but we're going to be rules by right wing special interest groups across the board.
I assume you're calling yourself TgressT. And, yes, the right wing is firmly in charge.
Remember when the Cons used to call their union bashing "the right to work". I guess they are sick of the sinister approach and now just go full on in your face. I find it laughable that a government for the people has just extended their summer vacation and want to keep their heads down because no news is good news when you are always Effing up. Man, think what it will be like at the end of their tenure.
I wouldn't be surprised too see Ford leave before the end of his tenure, zoombats.
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