Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Premier McGuinty should be Ashamed of Himself ... but then again He's a Politician!

Here we go again ... another government scandal .... another cabinet shuffle ... some more platitudinal damage control .... some more media frenzy ... and after the passage of time all of this is forgotten and life goes on at the public trough for the "porkers" at Queen's Park.

There's no point in re-hashing or re-analyzing the misadventures of now former Health Minister David Caplan, who can be likened to a man riding backward in a carriage, never seeing a thing until it has passed him by.

It is more than fair to say that he is a man of dubious judgement who presided over a ministry run amok with unconscionable indulgence during a time of historic economic turbulence in our country.

On his watch at least $16 million dollars were doled-out in untendered eHealth contracts. And let's not forget that under his watch David Caplan presided over the insider wins fiasco at the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation.

What was Dalton McGuinty thinking when he appointed Mr. Caplan as Health Minister?

My problem in all of this is not David Caplan for he delivered just about what you would expect from an incompetant minister. My problem is with Dalton McGuinty himself.

In politics there is one simple rule .... it isn't whether you win or lose but how you place the blame and Mr. McGuinty fired the first salvo in the "blame game" by stating that this is not a "new problem" but something which stretches back 10 years to the the time when the Conservatives were running the Province. Interesting comment.

Let's assume that what Mr. McGuinty says is true. The Liberals came to power in 2003 so by logical extension Dalton McGuinty has had 6 years to clean-up what he himself acknowledges to be an untoward system.

What has he done other than a "song and dance" as Mr. Caplan fell on his own sword. I can not help but to call into question Mr. McGuinty's character and decision making capabilities in light of the current fiasco and all of his broken promises since being elected.

Mr. McGuinty should be ashamed of himself, but then again he's a politician, a profession which tends to ruin one's character!

By the way, this past summer, Mr. McGuinty stated that the buck stopped with him for shoddy oversight.

Well Dalton, apparently the buck didn't stop with you, it simply found its way into the pockets of consultants.

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