Boring Blather: No Mudslingin’, No Nothin’!
The usual suspects have been bland at best. The predicted and supposedly inevitable pissing contest has yet to really pick up. The parties vying for the votes from Ontarians have kept the drama down. It’s boring. Aside from the one controversial issue of faith-based school funding there has been nothing that has kept the spark alive.
The campaign ads have been rather absent, though I can’t confirm this as I generally don’t have a tolerance for prime time television, which is the best time to air ads to reach potential voters.
There has been talk of solutions to the current healthcare issues, the main issue being with the waiting lists and whether or not the existence of a private system would help it, though at a cost to the taxpayer. The cost would go through OHIP (NHS for you Europeans and for you Americans… well… just call it “universal healthcare”).
Overall the leaders have failed to impress me with tirades about how they’re the greatest thing since sliced bread and beyond and why their party as all the answers, yet cannot provide the proof that they can fund it plus the proposed tax-cuts that are marched out ad nauseum every election.
It seems that the biggest deciding issues are the faith-based school funding proposal fielded by PC leader John Tory and the MMP, which if it succeeds would change our electoral system. The other parties have come out against the faith-based school system, which would legalise a form of segregation, even if Tory denies it.
The religious communities can push for it, but they probably won’t get it because the majority of voters are either content with sending their children to a public system or are like me and prefer to keep state and religion separate.
October 10th will decide that.
Stumble It!
