After all, with Jim Flaherty being the new Federal Finance Minister, can we look forward to anything resembling this (from 2002)?
Flaherty vows to make homelessness a crime
Robert Benzie, National Post
TORONTO - Jim Flaherty, Ontario's Deputy Premier and Minister of Finance, vowed yesterday to outlaw homelessness if he succeeds Mike Harris as Premier. Mr. Flaherty, who has also pledged to further scale back welfare benefits, would create an army of "special constables" to corral homeless people into shelters, hospitals and, in some cases, jail.
Modelled on anti-vagrancy measures credited with removing the homeless from New York City streets, his proposed legislation would be the first of its kind in Canada.
"Call it tough love if you will. It will be illegal to live on the street, it will be illegal to live in public places ... and in the parks," he said, posing in front of downtown benches covered in the ragtag possessions of homeless people.
Oh, yeah ... this should have immense entertainment value. In a slow-motion, train wreck kind of way.
AFTERSNARK: In the world of entertainment, this would be called "foreshadowing."
3 comments:
I'm going to move to Ontario and run for Premier. I'll order heart transplants (or is that implants) for all politicians lacking compassion. It may break the medical budget, but we can start taxing the corporations at a fair rate to cover this and CEO cardio implants.
That does it, now you've inspired me to go to photoshop! Damn you, it's 5am!
Tax breaks for the well-off, canceling tax breaks for the poor. It's worked so well to help people the last 25 years, we NEEEEEED to keep doing it!
Damn the empiricist in me. I keep repeating the above to myself, and darnit, it just doesn't "take."
Maybe I need a lobotomy like this crowd and their sheep followers.
Flaherty will ruin Ontario the way Harris/Eves did. It'll take another government to come along to start picking up the pieces and fixing the damage, just like happened in Ontario.
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