lol... this guy is unreal. McGuinty ponders Crown asset sell off (Link)
Premier Dalton McGuinty admits the Ontario government is looking at selling off the family jewels to cope with its record $24.7 billion budget deficit.
In a major policy flip-flop from a premier who in opposition derided selling off Crown assets as "a fire sale," McGuinty conceded desperate times require desperate measures.
"We've got a responsibility to look at all our assets to make sure we're getting the best bang for the buck," he told reporters Wednesday.
But the premier dismissed as "speculation" a report in The Globe and Mail that suggested the province would actually sell off Hydro One, Ontario Power Generation, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario or the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation.
"I haven't talked about selling off any assets," he said, admitting the government has retained two Bay Street investment banks to determine the value of its holdings.
Progressive Conservative MPP Peter Shurman (Thornhill) blasted the Liberals for "a panic-driven fire sale."
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said the idea of selling off public assets suggests the government is confused because just last week Liberal ministers were chiding the Tories for privatizing Highway 407 in 1999.
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Dec-17-2009 03:00
dEsidEL
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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Below the Belt
lol whatta joke.. why don't they do things like preventing the eHealth scandal and save billions in much easier ways
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Dec-17-2009 03:03
FunkyCrew
Ukranian Import
Registered: Feb 2006
Location: Soul Shakin'
why don't we sell him instead?
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Dec-17-2009 03:05
Yohan
Champion of Deep&Nu-disco
Registered: Jan 2004
Location: Kitchener, Ont, Soviet Canuckistan
quote:
Originally posted by FunkyCrew
why don't we sell him instead?
Originally posted by chinamon
not true. i say "ugh"
but i am a tranny.
quote:
Originally posted by kotsy
lol colour me retarded
Dec-17-2009 03:06
VDub
Scoundrel
Registered: Feb 2008
Location: Toronto
quote:
Originally posted by FunkyCrew
why don't we sell him instead?
Pretty sure we'd have to pay someone to take him...
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Originally posted by chinamon
chinamon is INCH MOAN.
LOL so fitting.
Dec-17-2009 03:09
MSZ
godspeed
Registered: Jun 2005
Location: kill me
i like his style, he is a degenerate like me
Dec-17-2009 03:10
VERTiG0
cunning linguist.
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: no longer Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
Execute McGuinty in cold blood, problem solved
Also remove all the Liberals, that'd make me a happy man
Dec-17-2009 03:10
FunkyCrew
Ukranian Import
Registered: Feb 2006
Location: Soul Shakin'
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Originally posted by Yohan
you make too much sense, kris
I stop making sense when I get angry and I start talking Russian
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Dec-17-2009 03:10
Jayx1
Prime Minister of TOTA
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: The Socialist People's Republic Of Canada
They should abolish the LCBO. Lets allow private competition and sales like in most of the free world cash cow or not.
My worry is that he will sell off the LCBO and then there will be a PRIVATE monopoly on liquor. That will not be a good thing.
Mcguinty makes Bob Rae look like a fiscal conservative!
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Dec-17-2009 03:23
Yohan
Champion of Deep&Nu-disco
Registered: Jan 2004
Location: Kitchener, Ont, Soviet Canuckistan
quote:
Originally posted by FunkyCrew
I stop making sense when I get angry and I start talking Russian
McGuinty ponders Crown asset sell off
and I start talking Russian
