BigCityLib Strikes Back: Hudak Tories In Wind Waffle

By bigcitylib, on March 28, 2013, at 6:55 am

Lisa Thompson, Tory MPP for Huron-Bruce, introduced the  Ensuring Affordable Energy Act in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday.  Its a private member’s bill, but everything Thompson has said about it, for example her comments here, suggest that it is now the PCPO’s de facto position on the matter.  From the assembly records:

The short title of this bill is the Ensuring Affordable Energy Act, and that’s exactly what this bill will do. This bill states that wind turbines will only be placed in willing host communities and municipalities will be given a full veto. Wind power must be

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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Ontario Budget 2012: Winners, Losers, And Mega-Losers

By bigcitylib, on April 23, 2012, at 6:30 pm

 1) Let’s start with the mega-loser in all of this: Tim Hudak and the PCPO.  Tim could have got something from  the government in exchange for seeing this budget through.  Instead he removed himself from the process 39 minutes in and got nothing.  The other two parties walked  away with tangibles.  Tim walked away with dick.

2) Let’s move on to the second biggest loser: Tim Hudak and the 1%.  Are you of the 1%: rich, indigent, a follower of Ayn Rand that thinks the proles should go fuck themselves?  Tim Hudak and the PCPO betrayed you.  Tim was

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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Tim Hudak Is The Waffle-Master

By bigcitylib, on March 1, 2012, at 7:24 pm

 Has anyone ever heard a Tim Hudak Presser that hasn’t ended in exactly the same way. He takes a position:

“I think we’ve got a responsibility as a provincial government to help break gridlock,” said Hudak, who would repeat the word no fewer than three times during his roughly six minute address. “Money’s on the table. It’s the biggest investment in Canada. So let’s do it right. Let’s invest in subways.”

And then he walks it back:

When asked about how exactly such a subway plan—while serving all proposed routes—would be financed, however, Hudak was unable to provide an

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