Oh god not another common sense revolution. We're still trying to swallow the common sense turd nuggets shat by Ford in Ontario.
this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2023
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You mean by Mike Harris, some 25 years ago.
We’re still reeling from all that common sense, with the amalgamation of Toronto leading to a bigger, more expensive, more inefficient, and more dysfunctional government.
And lets not forget the common sense turd that was the privatization of the 407, an absolute cash cow that generates $1B / year in profit, was built on taxpayer funds, and is now worth 10X what it was sold off for.
I'm pretty sure the amalgamation of Toronto was specifically intended to allow the outer "GTA" to swamp and override anything that urban Toronto wanted to accomplish. What you call inefficient and dysfunctional is just operating according to plan.
is now worth 10X what it was sold off for.
The property was leased. The government still owns that 10x increase in value.
When I wrote that, I knew someone was going to come out of the woodwork and say the highway was not technically sold, so I was trying to be careful with the wording. Not careful enough I guess. Yes, you’re right, it was the rights to a 99 year lease that were sold.
But no, it wasn’t just a lease, it was the right to a lease, which is indeed technically a kind of sale, not a lease per se. This is evidenced by the fact that SNC-Lavalin recently sold 10% of those rights for $3B, which pegs the current value of the entirety of those rights at $30B, 10 times what the Harris government originally sold them for.
We'll just eliminate waste and inefficiency to balance the budget. It's only common sense!
We'll cut the red tape and sacrifice the green belt to fix housing. How could it fail!
We'll reduce bureaucracy and skip the environmental reviews. The economy will trhive!
We'll abolish the carbon tax and give money to oil companies to fix climate change. No problem!
Government is too EZ, why can't these Liberals get it right
Your delegates rejected common sense in favour of harming gay people.
Not my delegates... I'm not a member.
Anyone else remember the 'Common Sense Revolution' in Ontario? Those old enough to remember Harris/Eves will recall that their 'Common Sense' was mostly 'Nonsense.'
"Common sense" is just dog whistle for "my feelings are more important than your facts" anti-intellectualism. It's permission to disregard any evidence in favor of what feels right.