Now hold on to your hats kids! It's not often I do this.
Being a member of the Liberal Party of Canada, sometimes it can be rather difficult to see eye to eye with a dipper, especially one like Andrea Horwath. But I give credit where due. It's one of those leadership commandments. I could go into details about those wonderful commandments, but I would rather stay on topic.
Andrea has been consistent on her position on the HST, while Tim Hudak can't stop the weaseling out of the outright question on whether or not he would repeal it.
Andrea has impressed me again on her position with Hamilton's LRT funding. She wants the commitment in writing, especially with the Pan-Am games on the way. One thing is for sure. If Dalton really wants to lose Hamilton, he can re-neg on the funding. Too much is riding on the building of the LRT system, including getting a decent mandate to renovate and rebuild the downtown core.
Why the need for such a commitment? Well, when it comes to promises from federal and provincial governments, us Hamiltonians are used to disappointment. Collectively, we are Charlie Brown and those funding promises are the football and therefore those governments play the part of Lucy. Just when we're ready to kick things off, the governments pull the funding away at the last minute.
So I have to say that Andrea has this one right. And I hope that recently annoited politi-star Sophia Aggelonitis is listening and reminding Dalton about it, otherwise she will have to watch her seat which was hotly contested in 2007, return to the NDP. I hope that weasel-wording-responsibility-abdicating Timmy is listening too. After all, Glanbrook is part of his riding and that's where the airport is, the destination for the next RT system to come.
We have seen promise after promise broken by the powers that be and we've never been happy about it. So it is with good reason that we get these promises in writing and woe betide the party that breaks that commitment.
Okay, you can breathe now.
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