Sunday, October 14, 2007


In Dalton McGuinty's Déjà Vu (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Aocqn68LE&NR=1) he is accused of lying and breaking promises after being elected in 2003 and ending 8 years of conservative rule. I believe that a big reason for his majority win was because Tory was so back and forth on his own campaign. His stand on public funding for religious schools changed once people started criticizing him, this put him behind because what people are looking for in a politician during an election is consistency and reliability. If you can't be steady on your own beliefs how can you be steady on the beliefs of a province? Because of all the focus being on the religious schooling, focus from tax hikes and other broken promises by McGuinty were overlooked, this might have given him a false sense that he is backed by a lot of Ontarians- the major issues that would have put him in the hot seat were not put in the spotlight. I would hope (not that it is a problem for me YET) that McGuinty doesn't use this majority win to support raising taxes. This victory was a big win but had very low voter turnout, 52.6%, reasons for this have been mentioned to be because the election wasn’t exciting and didn’t deal with day to day issues. I would agree with this because people won’t take time out of their busy schedules to vote in an election that doesn’t seem to be focusing on anything of a heavy weight or that would be affecting them personally. McGuinty says that he will be focusing on health care, education, the economy, and helping the poor- but aren’t they all? The big question before the vote is who do we trust, and the big question after is do we REALLY trust him again? Time will only tell whether voters made the right decision, and if non-voters made the wrong one. ARE WE IN FOR A DEJA VIEW?


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