Kim Craitor's phony Rebirth: a Bizarro Liberal world where 'Through The Looking Glass' meets 'Brave New World'

Ray Spiteri wrote:

"Kim Craitor is a pretty optimistic guy.

So it's no surprise when the Niagara Falls Liberal MPP says he's looking forward to 2012 and helping to make life better for his constituents and all Ontarians.
But the next 12 months will be different for Craitor. It will be his first full year in a minority parliament. He, and his government, are used to having the majority of power since 2003, when Craitor, and the Liberals, were elected to government. Now, he and his Liberal colleagues have to share.
No problem, he said.
"I am quite excited about working with a minority government. So far, I've heard words like 'partnership,' more than ever before. And you know my philosophy: 'People come first.'"
Craitor said along with working with Liberals, Conservatives and New Democrats at Queen's Park, two of his other priorities in 2012 will be to help get the province's financial situation "in order," and to continue improving the lines of communication between the public and the Niagara Health System.
"With a minority government, the structure of parliament has changed," said Craitor. "Private member's bills, which I am a big supporter of, will now play a more significant role in parliament. The other two parties will actually have the majority, so bills will be decided by all three parties, not just one."
He said the government will have to make some "tough decisions" if it wants to start shedding its $16-billion deficit.
"All programs have to be out there. We'll have to make tough decisions on what we really need versus the nice things to do, but that the taxpayers can't afford anymore. You can't spend what you don't have."
Craitor said since the government appointed Kevin Smith supervisor of the embattled Niagara Health System in August, patient and public confidence in the local hospital corporation has started to improve.
"The lines of communication at the NHS have opened. Patient complaints are immediately being responded to. The NHS is ensuring people in the media are getting the information they need in a timely fashion. I know in my conversations with Kevin Smith, everything is on the table. He is taking a fresh look at things. It's encouraging."

As for the health-care model across Ontario, Craitor is not as optimistic.

The Ontario government runs a $124-billion a year operation with $47 billion going to health and long-term care.
"Financially, it's at a breaking point," said Craitor.
He pointed to a recent report issued by Ontario Auditor General Jim McCarter, which, among other things, indicated a significant discrepancy between the money being pumped into health care, including salaries, and the care patients are receiving.
"We're spending a lot of money on health care, but we're not measuring whether patients are being cared for properly," said Craitor. "So, we're spending more and more, but what are we getting? When it comes to the delivery of health care, we've kind of done it backwards. We need to start putting patients at the front end. Patient care has to come first.""
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Amazing, eh, to hear all this faux-sincerity from a Liberal! It is Craitor's sincerity which is literally "at a breaking point", with all his new-found talk about making "tough decisions" on what "we really need versus the nice things to do, but that the taxpayers can't afford anymore. You can't spend what you don't have."
Yes, yes:  this is a McGuinty-Liberal [not "harris"!!!!!] saying this; mind you, a Liberal saying it, conveniently after an election!
"We're spending a lot of money on health care, but we're not measuring whether patients are being cared for properly," said Craitor. "So, we're spending more and more, but what are we getting? When it comes to the delivery of health care, we've kind of done it backwards. We need to start putting patients at the front end. Patient care has to come first."
Welcome to the Bizarro land of Craitorian Liberal politics; Kim Craitor has bravely come Through The Looking Glass into some new kind of contradictory world, the world of Ontario minority government.
Obviously, Craitor has no problem blowing with the wind; or, more likely, pretending to be.
His is the Liberal party which supposedly 'cares so much for the patient' (puke) that they ordered Don Drummond NOT to discuss private healthcare!!
Craitor - in his supposedly new-found 'collaborative, let's all work together now, though we didn't do that when we were the majority for 8 years' epiphany's supposedly-new parallel-universe -  still, ironically, doesn't recognize a private-parallel health-care system!
So, who believes the horseshit that drops out of Craitor's mouth anymore?
It is ideology, not "people", which 'comes first' to Kim Craitor. The two-faced, slimy Liberal duplicity inherent in Craitor's words today is shockingly patent.
Patient confidence in the NHS is improving? Really, Kimmy?! Your Liberal-enforced health-monopoly has just had another C. diff patient die in Niagara, following hundreds of other C. difficile patient deaths throughout Ontario during your Liberal reign. Feh: no matter... What about public confidence in your Liberal LHIN's; how's that little Liberal scam going, Kimmy?! Or your Liberal GreenFear scammery?
It's as if the greaseball political shapeshifter Kim Craitor, and his Liberal party, have never had anything to do with Ontario politics for the last eight years... it's as if Orwell's 1984 is McGuinty's 2012... as if what's happening in today's brave new Ontario has nothing to do with McGuinty's past eight years of (mis)governance... how many fingers can you see now; Jim Bradley is my friend; you are getting sleeeeepy... ...
What an utter pile of Liberal guile.
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McGuinty is sporting a legacy of Liberal debt

Further to my previous post about Ontario's premier Liberal liar Dalton McGuinty's little secret agent mission in 2009...


...we now have this subsequent brewing fiasco as reported in the Jan.2, 2012 Toronto Sun:


" The numbers are shocking since it’s taxpayers plugged in to receive the shock.

Premier Dalton McGuinty has been put on notice that 2015 Pan Am Games costs are skyrocketing and accountability is urgently needed.

“The magnitude of the total taxpayers’ exposure should wake up those involved to the fact that major TO2015 restructuring must be done,” wrote Paul Henderson, the very man who lobbied for the Pan Am games to help future athletes.

Now he says “costs will, when all taxpayers’ exposures and student taxes are totalled, be at least $4 billion.”

That’s a lot of cash for a two-week party few care about.

Henderson wrote “in these difficult times, consultants, and others looking for jobs, will tell the various political arenas what they want to hear not what they should be clearly told.”

He’s certainly telling them how he feels it is.

And if he’s correct, the games, which includes $1-billion for a Portland’s athletes village, are already $1.6-billion over budget. The original cost was pegged at $1.4-billion.

If accurate, Toronto should cut its losses now and walk away from this obscene waste of money that benefits hardly anybody.

“Ontario, along with the federal and municipal governments, have given TO2015 a mandate to deliver on time and on budget,” assured Lise Jolicoeur, on behalf of the premier. “TO2015 have submitted a business plan which is currently under careful review.”

Hope it’s not the people governments put in charge of spending hall of fame members e-health or the G8/G20.

Mayor Rob Ford has told me he won’t allow “a gun” being put to Torontonians heads when push comes to shove. It’s refreshing because we all know when these unnecessary construction projects are at risk of coming in late, politicians will throw around our money to make the deadline.

Meanwhile, Henderson offers savings that “would approach $750 million and possibly $1 billion.”

These include saving $300-million by running the PanAm and PanPara Games simultaneously, from July 31-Aug. 16, and use more existing facilities which do not require major installations. He said using Varsity Stadium for athletics would save on building a new $75-million stadium at York University, employ more temporary stands and make stadiums closer to the Athletes Village.

He also suggests to “review over-the-top facilities” including the “two major white elephants” in the “swimming pools and velodrome..."
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I'm sure Wendy Metcalfe's laughable gang of "Wrong-Righters" at the St.Catharines Standard will be asking their Liberal buddy Jim Bradley all about that, eh........?! After all: what's any of this got to do with Ole Liberal Jimmy?! There're no wrongs needing righting here!! hahahaha
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Canada's Kyodiot Dion blathers on..

Canada's AGW stooge Stephane Bumbledore Dion, The Disciple of David Suzuki, is still spouting his shifty GreenFear climate socialism. How quaint. Too bad the St.Catharines Standard couldn't be bothered asking their local Liberal MPP Jim Bradley (umm: he's only Ontario's Environment Minister, btw...) about the year passed, and the year in store, and how the world will be destroyed if we don't obey the fearsome climatalarmist commands of Bumbledore!
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Heavy snow proves global-warming, except when lack of snow proves climate-change: ya got that?!

Remember, just back in Feb.2010, how the GreenFear TM crowd of global-warming climatalarmists were chortling about this during the Olympics? Funny, then, how they're not now talking about this! Lack of snow in certain regions of B.C. was a highpoint for the smug Greensheviks; to them, an obvious ominous sign of climate catastrophe which could only be stopped by Jim Bradley-style climat-olitical TM socialist solutions. But, now, with heavy snow and avalanche warnings, the GreenFear silence is deafening.

Niagara's Top News Story of 2011: how the St.Catharines Standard aided and abetted Jim Bradley during Niagara's Liberal Summer of C.diff Death

Further to my earlier post:

It's officially a pathetic tragi-comedy: Health care is the top story of the year, the "Newsmaker of the Year", as the Dec.28, 2011 St.Catharines Standard proclaimed; yet of course, local Liberal MPP Jim Bradley, whose government created the LHIN's which forced the HIP cuts onto the NHS, was not even mentioned.

What else is new from Niagara's oldest Bradley-butt-wiping rag of record?

Yep: the front-page story in the Dec.28, 2011 Standard (written by "Standard Staff", under the headline "Niagara Health System dominated headlines mostly for wrong reasons") noted that "37 patients with hospital-associated C.difficile infections died" in Niagara...

(...in Bradley's Liberal-run health monopoly; you know, the one Good Ole Jimmy [suddenly] has nothing to do with...!)

...yet ...uh... because Jim Bradley has nothing to with it, the Standard, therefore (...it all makes sense, really...) has never carried an interview with their own secretive local Liberal MPP Jim Bradley about these deaths!!

See: it does makes sense: had a Conservative been the MPP during Niagara's Summer of  C.diff Death, the Standard would have been working overtime devoting reams of editions dedicated to the story, scrutinizing its part-and-parcel politics...

(...btw: it wasn't even clear in this Standard story what exactly they meant about the NHS being in the headlines (...mostly their and NTW's headlines...) for the "wrong reasons"; the mysterious "Standard staff" writers did not say what the "right reasons" would have been. The headline just doesn't make sense in context to their story. Over 3 dozen C. diff patients died in Niagara - were we supposed to pretend that this WASN'T newsworthy??)

It's just that easy for Jim Bradley to vanish.

And it's just that easy for the St.Catharines Standard to act as Jim Bradley's enablers; protectively, sensitively, carefully and strategically looking the other way when it comes to analyzing Precious Ole Jim.

Score another wrong-not-righted by Wendy Metcalfe's unofficial Niagara Liberal Propaganda Unit.

(Note: Several years later, we would all be made aware of what this kind of garbage reporting by the St.Catharines Standard was - - - it was revealed to be FAKE NEWS as appeared under the ascendancy of Trump. (The left HATED Trump... attempted to smear and impeach him for FAKE CRIMES even, inspired by lunatics such as Schiff, Pelosi, Nadler and Schumer). But we clearly know that the same category of deception and bias, practised by the same fake news propaganda peddlers, was also evident everywhere in Canada, years before it brought to the public fore in the States. We were subject to fake news in Niagara for YEARS; this propaganda in 2011 was just one tiny sliver of the monumental leftist deception peddled in Canada's press for decades.)
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   ...and, notice, that Bolichowski's year-end-story "Bradley sees brighter times ahead", tucked into the Dec.31, 2011 Standard, was not an interview, but simply stenography sans analysis - typical Standard regurgitated stuff, almost election-style friendly fodder, an 'atta-boy' gift of enablement from the Standard to Jimmy. Whatever Ole Brighter Times Jimmy spouted, the Standard gobbled it up.
   (ie, this was NOT "Trump's fake news"; this was a typical pre-Trump example of REAL "FAKE NEWS - -  just read it: it's right there starin' at your face...
    ...read the fakery and then see the built-in-bias, the unquestioned "company line" being dutifully spewed in your face in this phony attempt at "journalism"!!
  This was not journalism at all, but urinalism; it was a regurgitation of Bradley's tainted Liberal piss; it was 'toe-the-line' stenography and happily-abiding sycophancy; it was what was considered TYPICAL and NORMAL in Niagara for decades.
   Despite the utterly phony 'right-wronging / wrong-righting' deceptiveness spouted by Wendy Metcalfe, there was no 'right-wronging / wrong-'righting' attempted!!!
 Metcalfe's gang was NOT righting any wrong - - because they DID NOT SEE ANY WRONG!!
THAT is their deception; THAT is their built-in bias. (ie: if a Liberal does any wrong, it's instantly spun and portrayed as being a 'right'!!)
Their mission is to DEFEND THE WRONG; to PAINT THE WRONG AS IF IT WAS A RIGHT {...get it yet??}; to GLORIFY THE WRONG; to MAINTAIN THE STATUS QUO. They are tasked to PROTECT the leftist status quo.)

Bolichowski didn't bother asking Jim Bradley how many C. diff deaths could have been prevented in Niagara in 2011, had Bradley's secretive lying Liberals not quashed a public C. difficile inquiry in 2008!

Gosh: Jeff didn't even bother to go off-script and ask Jim Bradley (Ontario's Alberta-hatin' climatalarmist Environment Minister ...oops, pardon... Kyodiot) whether he's a Chiquita or a Dole banana man!

See the Mobil ad near the Jimmy-fawning story?! Ironic placement, eh, considering how Jimmy hates oil! ...and doctors ...and truth...
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Canada's Cagey Climatologist David Phillips teases about climate change

Loved that nice, sustained pile of GreenFear propaganda which was peddled at around 7:18 pm EST, Dec.28, 2011, on Buffalo's 970 AM, on the Gwen Ifill hosted Newshour. Climate change - man made - was not even challenged  by those NPR "reporters". This is the kind of cheer-leading, unquestioned, lap-it-up-and-love-it climate fear propaganda which Jim Bradley needs to hear more of in Canada!

Speaking of Good Ole Jimmy - once again, the St.Catharines Standard carried another of those always-funny Cagey Climatologist David 'maybe/maybe not/I dunno' Phillips' weather stories [where some reporter is sent in to decipher what Phillips says, and then try to spin some climate-change innuendo out of it], and once again, Jim Bradley (aka Ontario's Environment Minister!!) was not mentioned.

Ray Spiteri tried that same dance with Phillips a coupla days ago in the Standard; now, in the Dec.28, 2011 Standard, Don Fraser was sent in to do his best to somehow prove the fearsome existence of man-made climate change by cobbling together a string of  David 'it's a crapshoot of fits and fickles' Phillips' scat-like climatological observations.

Yet, dammit -  as Spiteri had found out - Cagey Climatologist Phillips came so close with his climate-fear innuendo, but couldn't actually give Fraser the smoking climate money shot, which would prove once and for all the existence of man-made climate change (or 'global-warming', or 'unprecedented-extreme-weather-events', or whatever the GreenFear industry's euphemistic-terminology-du jour for climate-socialism is).

Phillips teased and toyed with Fraser and led Fraser to the loquacious brink of climactic climatic release, but, dammit - pulled out just shy of actually saying that the Planet is in Peril, and that Jim Bradley is right, and that the Earth will be flooded as it dries up, and that the polar bears will drown as they're frying...

No, Fraser didn't get satisfaction from Canada's Cunningly Cagey Climatologist David Phillips. Fraser and his frustrated readers were left blueballed and breathless, having come so close to proving their socialist doomsday climate nirvana.

We don't even know whether Fraser had even bothered to come right out and ask Phillips outright for the definitive proof of man-made climate change; at least Spiteri made it look as if he had begged. But, although both Fraser and Spiteri dealt with the Cagey Climatologist, they also both completely ignored the One Man In All Of Liberal Ontario Who Knows All About Climate: Good Ole Jim Jimmy J.J. James Bradley!!

As with Spiteri, and countless previous lemmings who were sent to uphold the climate fear tradition, Fraser also did not dare bother to approach Climate Change GreenFear Chief  Jim Bradley for the definitive proof of AGW. Strangely, Fraser didn't bother to provide readers with any reaction from Jim Bradley to Phillips' comments!

Perhaps the Standard's boss Wendy Metcalfe saw no wrongs here which needed righting, and ordered reporters such as Fraser not to contact Ontario's Environment Minister Jim Bradley, when her newspaper is writing stories desperately trying to peddle climate fear.

Or, maybe these "reporters" are protecting Jim Bradley on their own, and Wendy doesn't mind.
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Health-care status-quo is working just fine for secretive Liberal Jim Bradley!

Further to this previous post...

Fred G. Peet wrote in  "Health-care status quo not working" (National Post, Dec.28, 2011):

"Re: In Defence Of Public Health Care, letter to the editor, Dec. 23.
In defending the current one-payer medical system in Canada, Linda Silas, president of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, talks about medical care for the poor. However, she avoids mentioning the person who has carefully put money aside for a medical rainy day only to find that they are unable to spend it on their own care when that rainy day arrives, thanks to the Canada Health Act. We thus have the absurd situation that a person can spend their own money on health care for their dog or cat but not for themselves.
Second, she claims that choice means fend for yourself. She avoids raising the possibility that a government monopoly may not be the most efficient way of delivering health care, even within a singlepayer system.
Lastly, she refers to medical public policy being based on research and evidence. She ignores the public policy that reduced the number of student seats in medical schools in the mid-1990s, leading to today's current doctor shortage.
It is time to fix the Canadian medical system, in spite of the views of Ms. Silas, and that fixing can begin with an overhaul of the Canada Health Act."
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The health monopoly's workin' fine, if ya ask Ontario Liberal MPP Jim Bradley [...well, ya gotta find Secretive Ole Jimmy first, though...]
Why, 37 patients died during two C.difficile outbreaks in Bradley's own region, yet Ole Jim had nothin' to say about it!!
And better yet, no-one from the press even bothered to ask Jimmy about it!!
How about that, eh?!!
The health-care status-quo sure is working for Jim... bigtime... with blindfolds on...
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