— Musings —09.12.2011 01:09 PM
— Musings —09.12.2011 01:09 PM
The Ontario PC refused to apologize for the “foreign workers” bit, but according to reports they’ve dropped the phrase from their radio commercials. Now they’re talking about affirmative action. 😛 They’re like the Energizer Bunny, they refuse to quit.
Ivinson in the Nat Post all but endorsed Dalton today.
That must have hurt.
The National Post agrees with you and Dalton about this:
“But they are wrong to claim the plan would benefit “foreign workers.” No matter their place of birth, Canadian citizens living in Ontario are Canadians, period. The Tories may be excused for this line of attack for the first several days, when it was not yet clear the plan was limited to Canadian citizens. That is no longer the case. The Tory insistence on continuing this line of attack is baffling.
And unnecessary. The proposed tax credit can be criticized strongly and accurately at the same time. The Tories needlessly invite accusations of intolerance, and questions as to their seriousness, when they twist the Liberal proposal so they might deem some Canadians “foreign” in the hopes of electoral gain.”
As the video points out, they should not be excused for those first several days either since McGuinty has been perfectly clear from the beginning.
The thing is, the racist undertone of the PC response is not an accident. Either the people calling the shots are racists (not likely, unless certain hillbilly MPPs have even more influence than any Liberal could fear/hope) or they are cynical enough to believe that pulling the racist vote will help their cause.
But:
(1) The PCs already own the racist vote;
(2) Most of the racists are in ridings the PCs are going to win by a zillion votes; and
(3) This isn’t the American South and it isn’t 1950. There just aren’t enough racists here to win an election on.
…knock on wood!
P.S. The whole “Hudak calls citizens foreigners” angle is exactly what is needed here. Concise and pointed. Do this, over and over and over again. I would love to hear a question at the debate like, “Mr. Hudak, why do you call Canadian citizens ‘foreigners’?”
As much as Hudak claims to want jobs for Ontarians, he’s using a call centre in New Brunswick.
http://www.exciteddelirium.ca/2011/09/12/why-tim-hudak-is-done/