The latest disappointment I have experienced with the Kind of Ford Tories is the Teachers' strikes, job actions and general "FU" that they are extending to us all. Like the lady I spoke with who has elementary kids who is at the point where she and her boss (also a woman) have to schedule their business with regard to when the latest School Freeze that's going to happen. People are pissed.
But people also know who to blame. Even if you are the biggest Teacher-hater of all time, you know that there is only one authority that has the power to put an end to it - the PC Government you elected that you thought would do things differently. Instead, the parents and children of Ontario have been subjected to the unions' Reign of Terrors for months with no end in sight. Worse, the Minister has backed down on three of the four issues they went to war over in the first place.
I for one am particularly disappointed that all those Ford-haters that predicted that Ford would be the coming of the Second Apocalypse in swastikas and orange hairdos were wrong. Back to Work legislation may not be anyone's idea of an intellectual and political revolution. But I'm guessing a lot of benighted Ontarian taxpayers, students and parents would have cheered a ragged cheer or two.
The truth is this - the most highly paid teachers' unions in Canada will never be satisfied. So it's time to send them back to work and jail the few militants that have been wrecking Ontario education if they don't go, too. Failure to do so (and preferably simply implement the changes the Tories wanted in the first place) asap will earn Minister Lecce and his Government a well deserved place in the electoral drink next time. BTW,
Does anyone know any other political party who would be so timorous after winning a crushing majority and de-officializing their main opponent?
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