I know he originally styled himself the "education premier", but Dalton McGuinty became anything but.
Hiring neo-con economist Don Drummond was the pivot point.
Drummond was a long-time private sector economist whose recipe for economic resuscitation would look more than familiar to anybody who is acquainted with Tea Party doctrines.
Get tough on the public sector. Free up the rape-and-pillage finance sector. Good things are sure to follow.
So McGuinty got busy signing long term contracts with the two biggest police forces in the province, contracts that afford double digit wage increases over the next four years.
Then he took the gloves off. Doctors were the first ones singled out for a wage freeze. Teachers were next, and the entire universe of civil servants was on the agenda after that.
Meanwhile, it's come out that McGuinty shenanigans to relocate a couple of power plants to save a couple of Liberal Party stalwarts their seats in the legislature cost the taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
Good-bye Dalton. Maybe Drummond's corporate connections can find you a nice corporate sinecure.
Or maybe you'll be the next OPP Commissioner.
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