Wrong again.
The Globe and Mail frontpaged today that ridings that voted for the Stephen Harpers in Ontario got an average of 38 per cent more cheese than those held by the Liberals,Greens, er scratch that, I keep forgetting, high profile but zero seats and the NDP. In Post 1072...Vote Tory Get An Ice Rink I had the temerity to state that "...if it wasn't for the fact that our MPP, Yasir Naqvi, was a hard working member on the governing benches of the Premier Dalton McGuinty's team Ottawa Centre would be in worse shape than it is now."
For that I apologize.
There can be no doubt that I was right on the money about Mr. Naqvi being a brilliant leader in the OC but I was totally wrong, wrong, wrong when I posited that Ottawa Centre was being abused, avoided and neglected by the Tories when it comes time to dish out the stimulus money under the Recreational Infrastructure Canada Program, RinC.
Ottawa Centre, the riding where the House of Commons and all that other cool federal stuff is, held by Dipper Paul Dewar, finished fourth in the province in RinC coinage. Breaking it down further, the Tory ridings in Canada's most important province electorally received a shade under 2.1 million, the New Democrats almost 1.9million and the Liberal ridings got just a bit over half of what the Conservatives received at 1.363 mill.
I would not want to think for a second that the fact that the Conservatives under Stephen Harper have treated the New Democrat ridings like their own is the reason Jack Layton has pulled a 180 and is now in the pocket of the Prime Minister. Nor would I imply that the Conservatives are treating Ontarians in Liberal held ridings in worse fashion than those in NDP and Tory ridings on person. The fact that the Conservatives are giving the shaft to Liberal ridings in regards to the flow of RinC money is a mere coincidence.
WFDS
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