PP, racist picnics, and government fiscal scorecards

The Reading List for 16 Sep 22

Male Pacific Walrus. Photo: Joel Garlich-Miller, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Safely back from Koreatown and some part of east end Toronto that looked like Mogadishu. Perry Trimper is officially a Liberal again. Sin Jawns washed out and blown away by a minor breeze and a bit of water.

Two weeks goes by in a hurry.

The health crisis that has been plaguing the province for months is now real because your average townie cannot walk into an emergency room any more anywhere in town and get a doctor to check out your average sore finger from poking your average baymen in the chest and telling him to buck up and get used to not having a doctor because da gravy train has ended for all the freeloaders living in luxury around da bay at the expense of all da townie taxpayers.

In other news, the Townie Premier has written to Ottawa about the newly discovered crisis in health care begging for more federal handouts. If PAF hasn’t done it yet he will as soon as he is done with the latest bit of Twitter fappery in his schedule.

Just like The FAPster will answer all the whining about a sugar tax on drinks without sugar in them by extending the sugary beverage tax to anything liquid, except the already highly taxed products of the government’s liquor stores. A flask of Old Sam is still cheaper than two litres of milk so the kiddies have choices.

The same advertising campaign - “rethink your drink” - will run, unchanged although the meaning is different.

The ad geniuses behind the original award-winner will bill the province for all the new artwork and creative time coming up with the new slogan. These things don;t recycle themselves.

Meanwhile, the UberCrat that PAF put in charge of making it *look* like we were reforming the health care system that desperately needs reform is now saying that her strategy for reform - that is, her plan to keep things like they are - is in jeopardy because PAF cannot do any better than piece-meal responses to the crisis in health the UberCrat had a hand in creating back when she was running the townie health system.

People wonder why there are no comedians left in Newfoundland. That’s because they cannot come with anything as whacky as what the politicians and bureaucrats produce.

*sigh*

Anyway, this week’s suggested reading has nothing to do with any of that.

• Paul Wells on PP, PMJT, and the long election campaign just started.

• Eric Grenier on Poilievre’s big win.

• John McWhirter on the potentially racist origin of the word picnic.

• The Walrus, with a new look and feel thanks to a change at the top.

• And best of all, a new scorecard by C.D. Howe Institute on provincial fiscal transparency.

Enjoy the weekend!