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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Bob Rae: Kills jobs dead
Checked National Newswatch a little while ago and what did I see but this graphic of an anti-Rae billboard.
Boy did that bring back memories.
You see, I created that Rae billboard back in the early 1990s for Ontarians for Responsible Government, a project group of the National Citizens Coalition.
It really captured in a few words the disaster that was Rae.
I think it was one of my more brilliant PR ideas.
Posted by Gerry Nicholls on November 19, 2008 in Canadian Politics | Permalink
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Gerry: Was that "How do you like socialism NOW?" billboard (in Toronto) yours too? I'd love to see a graphic of it again. It really had a great impact the first time I saw it on the street.
Posted by: Paul McKeever | 2008-11-19 7:18:05 PM
Paul:
Yeah that was mine too. Rae was a real inspiration! Not sure where you could find that graphic. Maybe contact somebody at the National Citizens Coalition.
Posted by: Gerry Nicholls | 2008-11-19 7:25:58 PM
During that era Barbara Amiel in her Toronto Sun column referred to Bob Rae as a "crypto-communist" if memory serves me correctly.
Posted by: Joe Molnar | 2008-11-19 7:38:40 PM
Cool.
Posted by: Paul McKeever | 2008-11-20 5:13:00 AM
Don`t post that bare - ass Bob version of Rae . That`ll kill libido let alone jobs.
Posted by: daveh | 2008-11-20 6:50:28 AM
Bob Rae didn't kill jobs; Ontario's largesse, privilege and wealth killed their economy. They have no one to blame but themselves.
Posted by: Zebulon Pike | 2008-11-20 8:06:55 AM
Bob Rae didn't kill jobs; Ontario's largesse, privilege and wealth killed their economy. They have no one to blame but themselves.
Posted by: Zebulon Punk | 20-Nov-08 8:06:55 AM
$50.00 a barrel oil today, hoping to see it go to $10 or lower.
Posted by: The Stig | 2008-11-20 8:47:37 AM
Then who will Ontario take from?
Posted by: Zebulon Pike | 2008-11-20 9:11:52 AM
Then who will Ontario take from?
Posted by: Zebulon Punk | 20-Nov-08 9:11:52 AM
What Ontario will have to take is all the unemployed from Alberta.
Posted by: The Stig | 2008-11-20 9:23:22 AM
What unemployed? Alberta has the lowest unemployment rate in the world - hovering around 3.7 percent. Compare that to 6.2 percent nationally, about the same in Ontario. If you want them, go ahead and take them.
The bigger threat will be, as it has been for many years, Ontarians coming west to live. They're scum, and ought to be shipped home if Alberta's economy declines too far.
Posted by: Zebulon Pike | 2008-11-20 10:27:05 AM
Stig:
If oil goes down to $10 a barrel, that means less funds available for equalization payments to the have-not provinces ... like Ontario.
Posted by: set you free | 2008-11-20 12:05:46 PM
Set You Free: indeed you are correct, but Ontario has ways to extract blood from stone. They'd make Alberta pay because they hate Alberta.
Posted by: Zebulon Pike | 2008-11-20 12:31:52 PM
The Stig wrote: "What Ontario will have to take is all the unemployed from Alberta."
Hmm, I wonder how many of them were refugees from Ontario's shuttered factories in the first place.
Posted by: Shane Matthews | 2008-11-20 2:35:39 PM
Alberta has the lowest unemployment rate in the world - hovering around 3.7 percent.
Posted by: Zebulon Punk | 20-Nov-08 10:27:05 AM
Bwahahahahahaha. Denmark's unemployment rate is 2.0%, and there are at least 20 other countries that have an unemployment late below 3.5% that don't have oil. What a douche.
Posted by: The Stig | 2008-11-20 11:24:09 PM
If oil goes down to $10 a barrel, that means less funds available for equalization payments to the have-not provinces ... like Ontario.
Posted by: set you free | 20-Nov-08 12:05:46 PM
The cost of energy going down as well as the dollar are good for provinces that are essentially manufacturing based as well as high technology. Alberta has neither. If oil continues it rapid decline Alberta will very shortly be a have not province with high unemployment.
Posted by: The Stig | 2008-11-20 11:32:27 PM
Yes, Stig, but the problem is the dearth of buyers for manufactured goods. People will always need oil; those former Ontarians would be smarter sitting tight in Alberta.
You're getting kind of waspish lately, Stigger. Touch of the gout?
Posted by: Shane Matthews | 2008-11-21 7:36:51 AM
I pry to god for decline in oil prices, It is high time we see the old good Alberta with its high rate of employment
Posted by: jobs in alberta | 2008-11-21 12:37:08 PM
You're getting kind of waspish lately, Stigger. Touch of the gout?
Posted by: Shane Matthews | 21-Nov-08 7:36:51 AM
No Shanie I'm in LA and the smoke from the fires was stinging my eyes. The upside is I don't have skip through your 100+ posts a day on the evils of marijuana.
Posted by: The Stig | 2008-11-21 4:26:51 PM
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