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Where’s the plan Dalton?

Yesterday’s economic update by Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan was a sobering snapshot of how badly things are going right now in Ontario. Lack of leadership, no vision and no clue as to how to move the province forward have been trademarks of McGuinty and his crew for many years.
One of the humorous quotes in […]

Posted on October 23rd, 2009 by NCC Staff in NCC Blog
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Time to ‘check’ stimulus spending and photo ops at the door

The attention given to the conservative logo at a stimulus project announcement has gotten out of hand; however that is only part of the problem. Article here. First of all, the so-called ‘logo-gate’ scandal has received far too much outcry from the Liberals as Prime Minister Jean Chretien and his party was masters at it […]

Posted on October 19th, 2009 by NCC Staff in NCC Blog
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Premier Stelmach is looking over his shoulder

Premier Stelmach’s televised address on Wednesday has received mixed reviews. It is no wonder. The province is facing declining revenues and out of control spending over the past several years is not being papered over any more by ever increasing revenues. For the Premier it is time to go back to basics and do the […]

Posted on October 16th, 2009 by NCC Staff in NCC Blog
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Ehealth Scandal Continues to grow

News continues to filter out about the level of waste, mismanagement and incompetence related to the Ehealth Scandal. Over a billion dollars of Ontario taxpayers money has gone down this cesspool of incompetence with no end in sight.
Calls for a public inquiry to find out what really happened and where the money was wasted have […]

Posted on October 15th, 2009 by NCC Staff in NCC Blog
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The Unelected Senate is at it again

No wonder people continue to look to making significant changes to the unelected Senate. Their most recent shenanigans related to them proposing changes to a crime bill that was passed unanimously by all parties in the House of Commons (yes- the ELECTED Members of Parliament. You can read the article here.
For decades the Senate has […]

Posted on October 9th, 2009 by NCC Staff in NCC Blog
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McGuinty’s disregard for Taxpayers

Many of you have been following the disgraceful eHealth scandal and the $1 billion in spending to try and move Ontario towards electronic record keeping. All that money spent and no progress in sight. Yesterday a cabinet minister was forced to resign and another in a very long series of apologies was given by the […]

Posted on October 8th, 2009 by NCC Staff in NCC Blog
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Another Week another non confidence motion

It was no surprise to read in the papers this week that once again, the Liberals are going to put forward a non confidence motion in the House of Commons today. They say that they are not going to vote with the Conservatives again on any money bill (budget or ways and means bills). I […]

Posted on October 1st, 2009 by NCC Staff in NCC Blog
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