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From: E. Charters	5/8/2005 8:33:42 PM
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Special CBC Report: "Martin Promises Ontario 5.75 billion of Ontario's own money. He pledges to raise taxes to meet that objective." OTTAWA - The stakes were high, the bullshit was thick, and so was the payout, as leaders of two Liberal governments sat down on Saturday to heal a festering wound in their relationship. IN DEEP SHIT TOO: Dalton McGuinty (image omitted.. try to imagine God in a Tin Suit) The Prime Minister and the Premier before the start of their meeting in Ottawa:(images omitted -- photograph is blurred by alcohol) After almost nine hours of talking with Prime Minister Paul Martin, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty emerged with a $5.75-billion promise of additional federal support over the next five years. Where in the frig the money would come from was not discussed. Both leaders agreed after several bottles of Cognac that it would make a great campaign promise to this vote-rich province for both their impending elections. The deal includes a package of resettlement funds and language training for new immigrants to Ontario. No mention was made of cost savings at the Provincial or Federal Level. No mention was made of improvement to health services or badly needed new MRIs for trauma victims that Dalton McGuinty had been trumpeting in the past. Both leaders came to the conclusion that in these desperate times, trauma victims are a small voting block, whereas Ontario had three large groups who would benefit from language training and resettlement, (housing and welfare) funds. These three groups are new immigrants, older immigrants who had come in the last 20 years who are underemployed, and the civil service, who get jobs administering these programs. That is a voting group of a whopping 4 million people all of whom they had found in past elections could be scared by image-building of the opposition as tight-fisted bigots. The leaders agreed that voters in these groups would reflexively vote for people who promised them money and support and reject arguments that the funds were not available from the present tax-base without going into a deficit that would take years to pay off. Martin and McGuinty congratulated themselves publicly for pandering to their favourite scare tactic that the opposition are racists (See The OJ trial -- How to Win When Your Client is a Minority Crook ). They both acknowleged that they were implicity sending a message to people who are ignorant of Canadian political ways and who could be fooled into believing that the balance of power in the country was a tenuous one between jack-booted far-right radicals and generous, right-thinking people. They also agreed that they were sending the not so subtle message to new Canadians that the Conservatives would be cold and indifferent to their plight and ignore their demands and needs. Message 21304426 Both Martin and McGuinty tottered back to their electorate with big silly grins on their faces to announce their vote-winning platform to the faithful in their parties. ********************************** EC<:-}

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