It is quite a mess, and the Tories wear it well.Īriane Krol, writing for La Presse, argues there is too much waste in Quebec’s bottle-recycling system to justify: Some kind of deposit-and-return system needs to take its place. The Calgary Herald‘s Don Braid reports on the latest ricocheting anger and recrimination from the mass Wildrose defections to the Progressive Conservatives. Look, we’re happy to blame the Ontario Liberals for just about anything, but being poisoned by your municipal drinking water is not quite the same thing as, say, piloting your automobile into the back of a tractor trailer. In other provincial affairs, the Toronto Sun‘s editorialists argue an Auditor General’s report into cost-cutting measures for winter road clearance, which correlated with an increase in highways deaths involving snow and ice, constitutes “the Liberals’ Walkerton.” Uh huh.

He’s got a green light from the Campaign Life Coalition! Not even orange - green! By Liberal standards he’s practically Sauron. Brown voted against same-sex marriage, for heaven’s sake.

“If could make people believe that nice guy John Tory was out to destroy public education, they can make the voters believe anything,” he observes. Randall Denley, writing in the Ottawa Citizen, reminds Ontario Tories that they need the leader they pick to actually win an election. “I am a lawyer by training and practiced briefly.” Ugh. “I think I’ve got a unique background,” he says. Him? Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership frontrunner Patrick Brown does not come off at all well in Martin Regg Cohn‘s piece in the Star - primarily inasmuch as he doesn’t seem to have any concrete opinions on the matters Cohn puts to him (“It would not be my plan to bring in a cap-and-trade system or a carbon tax,” he says then, when pressed, “I’m not ruling out cap-and-trade forever”), but also inasmuch as it highlights just how unimpressive the guy’s resumé is. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.

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