Preville on Politics
A perfect political storm
Posted on August 7, 2007 by Philip Preville
I wonder if Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty is spending his summer wishing he hadn’t implemented fixed election dates. Ontario’s economy is in a tailspin at just the wrong time for him. And at the right time for both PC leader John Tory. It’s also good timing for NDP leader Howard Hampton. Note that Buzz Hargrove is digging his heels in for the first time in years.
Meanwhile, in the hopes of changing the subject, the Liberals have Ben Chin delivering a Muppet News Flash on YouTube, which is increasingly laden with political messaging of poor production value.
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Philip Preville
Veteran freelance writer Philip Preville lived much of his life in Montreal and Edmonton before he was lured, like so many Torontonians before him, by the promise of more work and a better living. A National Magazine Award winner and former Canadian Journalism Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Massey College, Preville writes Toronto Life’s politics column. He lives with his wife and one-year-old son in Riverdale, just close enough to the Don Valley Parkway that he can hear it when he steps outside his house—but just far enough away that it doesn’t keep him awake at night. On his office wall hangs a 1938–39 press pass belonging to his grandfather, Elias Gannon, who wrote for the Montreal Star.
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Mark Dowling August 7, 2007 at 12:25 p.m.
The Euro is steady at 1.45 and has been for months - this is purely a USD issue. Canada and especially Ontario needs to diversify its exports rather than be hostage to the US dollar markets as Buzz Hargrove's workers in the auto and aerospace sectors are. We need an signed EU free trade treaty and the sooner the better.