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Blogs are everywhere. Having a web site gives me the ability to post web logs? Here is my growing list of opinions, essays and other material about the 2007 Ontario general election and the issues that will shape an informed decision in western Mississauga.

Moving to the Ministry of Revenue in 2010

My old friend John Wilkinson needs my help in the Ministry of Revenue, and I was assigned by the Premier to be his new Parliamentary Assistant in January.

Auditor General dismisses NDP irresponsible personal attacks

Our government came up short in how the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration chose recipients for year-end grants among multicultural organizations. Minister Mike Colle accepted his reponsibility. The Auditor General also said emphatically that the defamatory allegations made by the NDP were entirely false. Now the NDP backbencher who defamed me, my partner Andrea and the largest social services agency in Mississauga must resign! Lots more detail.

Mixed Member Proportional = more politics and less governing

What if somebody said you would get better government if you paid more attention to the parties that lost the election? That is exactly what the referendum question on the ballot this fall will ask you to do. Here is why I recommend voting decisively for "First-Past-The-Post!".

Tired old "Gotcha Politics" wearing thin on John Tory

October, 2006: John Tory will say anything, anytime, anywhere to anybody, but there's no beef inside the inflammatory rhetoric.

New Tory ads try to cover up hard-right agenda and candidates

The Conservative Party’s bid to take Ontario backwards continued with an ad campaign that fails to cover up John Tory’s inability to outline a vision for Ontario, or move the Conservative party from their hard-right roots.

The NDP Just loves to spend other people's money

Our government campaigned in 2003 on a pledge to move Ontario's long-frozen minimum wage to $8.00 per hour, and kept its commitment to the letter. The NDP wants to declare war on small businesses, and throw an estimated 90,000 low-wage workers out of work with a foolish pledge to further increase Ontario's minimum wage by an additional 25 percent. People are not that gullible.