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The devil and the deep blue sea
The Ontario Conservative Party (the favourite to win the coming election) has released its platform. Click here for Moira MacDonald’s commentary, in which she observes that - for the most part - the Tories propose to leave things pretty much the same as before. Moira’s take on this is that the Tories are hoping to appease the province’s powerful teachers’ unions, one of which has already collected $60 from each of its members in order to build an anti-Conservative warchest.
It will be interesting to see how the teachers’ unions react to this gambit. On the one hand, there’s no question but that the unions could expect even better treatment from the provincial Liberals, if elected. But, as mentioned above, it’s beginning to look as if the Liberals will not be elected. So would the unions be smarter to face reality and start building bridges to the Conservative Party? I’m sure the debates are raging within the union offices even as we speak. I’d love to be a fly on the wall!
Too bad, by the way, that the best interests of kids and parents don’t appear to be a consideration….....