Premier looking to buy our vote on election day
Our Ontario premier is to be congratulated. He's come up with a creative, new approach for financing his re-election campaign.
I'm certain that many have noticed the recent flurry of announcements telling us that some of our pet projects are now to be given financial boosts from the coffers of the provincial government.
Recently, we were told that a surplus of more than $2 billion was discovered "hidden away" somewhere in the cash drawers of our provincial treasury, coincidentally weeks away from the next election.
He's industriously funding a plethora of local pet projects, attempting to buy our favour come election day. He's hoping to influence our decision at the polls come Oct.10. Ingenious.
All this is being done at our expense, with our tax dollars, with our tax refunds, with our tax breaks, with our tax cuts.
Normally, government funding of various projects proceeds at the speed of an aging pachyderm. Come election time, I'm amazed at the alacrity, the acceleration, the ability to grease the wheels (palms?) of their spending apparatus.
There ought to be a law.
BRUCE MACDONALD
Harrow
-Letter to the editor, sent to various papers September 16th 2007(?)
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