The best way to ensure political victory is to force a general election before the recession arrives

BY STEVEN KASZAB

After reading this advertisement sent to me by The Ontario PC Party (below) I could not help but come to the conclusion that an election call is on its way within the next year.

The Conservative’s policies and economic direction are one of full steam ahead, build and build some more. Little consideration of the Greens and NDP’s calls for planned restraint and consideration of the long-term costs to the environment.

Old style advertising, old style thinking for a Conservative administration with a majority in the legislature. Perhaps a little creativity would be in order.

How about pointing out that NDP policy is still the same as it was when Horwath held the reins of power within the NDP. Nothing has really changed except for the party’s public head. Ontarians still have a difficult time considering the NDP to be a real effective alternative to Doug Ford’s cohort.

Some Liberals (you know the party who nearly disappeared in the legislature) invited the Greens leader Mike Schreiner to lead the Liberals. Now Mike took way too long to respond to this invitation. Most Greens should have thought that an immediate response was more appropriate rather than taking two weeks to respond.

Say Mike reversed the invite to offer those few Liberal in the legislature to join the Greens. Their economic, social and political agendas seem very similar. Both parties are lacking in creative ways to protect the environment. Sure, they offer green jobs, jobs that have not appeared as of yet.

The Conservatives have become very relevant to Ontarians, while the NDP, Greens and Liberal still lay in a state of disrepair.

There is: the creation of jobs, building homes, inviting corporate leaders into Ontario, limiting taxes at a time when public debt demands are being dealt with.

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Red tape regulations, public employees wage hikes (some deserved), limiting development of vacant unused lands, devastating public costs to municipalities and maintaining antiquated concepts of economic growth.

Premier Ford knows a recession is on the horizon, and the best way to ensure political victory is to force a general election before the recession arrives. Blaming the Federal Government’s Green Taxes, and the defeated Ontario Liberal Party’s economic failures as reasons for his strong handed policies, Doug Ford will stand before all Ontario’s and rightfully proclaim all that is good in this province has happened because of the Conservative machine under his leadership.

The Conservative’s Pierre Poilievre does not know what Doug Ford knows, that a Conservative Leader can be a little bit liberal, socialistic too. How will the Conservative Party’s opposition defeat a movement like their own?

Doug Ford is “A little bit Liberal, A little bit NDP, a little bit Green,” a whole lot Conservative indeed. Still a capitalist, allied to the right and business class too. How do you fight that?