Like California, Ontario has managed to find itself well beyond the tipping point. The possibility that public service unions would get so big that they (along with others who have a vested interested in a particular party winning) would be the deciding factor as to who would be in power was always out there……Everyone should be dead against all public service unions for this very reason but the argument is typically always poo pooed on the grounds that the unions weren’t quite large enough to influence an election and besides, “they would have a breakdown of voting preferences that would be reflective of the general population”. Ya right..… Can you believe that the Ontario Provincial Police Association (union)even ran their own commercials that essentially laid out a threat to Ontarians that if they voted for the Conservative (Alinsky tactic Rule 12), we would be virtually guaranteed labour strife? It is mindboggling that the citizenry wasn’t up in arms about this…. oh wait, it was the POLICE who did it. If the idea of being held hostage by the police doesn’t strike fear into every citizen of Ontario, I don’t know what will. I was chatting with a young nurse just before the election and she said that she and all the nurses that she knows have been told “if you vote Conservative you will lose your job.” Well….it worked and she voted Liberal. Somehow these types of threats and the general demonization that went on against the Conservatives by all these groups means that the Province isn’t really going to be run by the Liberals for the next 4 years… it will be run by fear as spread by public service unions whose plans will be readily implemented by the Liberals. And so what the citizenry is left with is no mechanism to rein in spending short of Ontario’s credit rating going completely in the toilet.
The tipping point has been exceeded….. Conservatives in Ontario can never win again since the block of potential voters with their vested interest is guaranteed to vote against them every time. The party may as well as go into a state of total dormancy until the province crashes and burns… which history dictates it will.
Like Maggie said, sooner or later you run out of other peoples money. But that must be okay since the Federal Reserve will just print a new batch to hand out. Soon to become monopoly money if we keep going. Have the conservatives (your choice of defining that) become so disgusted that a lot don’t even bother to participate any more? As long as the lsm keeps hammering home the point that the libs/progs/socialitst are going to sweep the elections and conservatives buy it, there isn’t much going to change. It really boils down to which group of “promisers” each individual chooses to believe. Or which ones they feel are lying more, or less, to them.
Young Canadians (under 40) in my experience, seem to be very radicalized. I’ve heard them spew anti-Americanism & anti-Western nonsense that would put the French to shame.
I am a Canadian, now living in the US. Like most democrats in the USA, it appears to be that liberals in Canada will always vote their party regardless of what the situation is and what is going on re the economy. I am very sorry to hear about the result of the election in Ontario, but I am not surprised.