Thursday, November 05, 2009

Thursday Morning Link Blast

Time to clear off a few tabs...

- Ontarians worried that the province's decision to impose the HST on them (with federal inducement of course) was made without their views being taken into account will surely take plenty of solace in the fact that some of McGuinty's MLAs are in the same boat.

- Joe Kuchta details the fact that a decision on nuclear power isn't the only one that the Wall government is looking to force by the end of the year without full information. Instead, after promising not to sign the TILMA, it's looking to sign onto an arrangement which differs (if at all) only in its application to municipalities and Crown corporations who have been allowed into the inner circle - while once again freezing the public out of the process.

- Canada's correctional investigator points out the obvious fact that a more punitive penal system does nothing to help public safety. But I'm not sure that anything much was said in response: the Cons even bother with their rote "we know better than any so-called 'facts'", or did this particular report simply get entirely ignored?

- Finally, it shouldn't be a huge surprise that Con candidate Diana Dilworth is going to comical lengths to avoid talking to the media in the New Westminster-Coquitlam by-election. But one has to wonder whether anybody remembers what happened the last time the Cons tries the same flee-the-media strategy in a by-election where there's plenty of attention being paid to what the individual candidates actually have to say for themselves. And it may be worth sending them a reminder by pitching in for the NDP's Fin Donnelly.

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