Arthur Weinreb has an interesting column in the Toronto Free Press tracking Premier Dalton McGuinty's progress from a failed Premier to a archetypal Liberal.
...Much like Paul Martin who defends the sleaze and corruption in his government by going on the attack, McGuinty blamed the PCs for the Takhar incident by accusing them of "stalking" the Minister of Transportation in order to come up with the picture. This of course is the same tactic that is being used successfully in Ottawa in the Gurmant Grewal matter. The federal Liberals have successfully diverted attention away from what Martin’s Chief of Staff and Health Minister said on the tapes by raising allegations against Grewal and accusing him of editing or otherwise doctoring the audio tapes. And as we all know, this diversion works.
Unlike Paul Martin who appears not to know where he is most of the time, Dalton McGuinty knows he is in Ontario. Like the feds, the more sleaze that emanates from the Liberal government, the higher they rise in the polls in good old Ontario. And McGuinty’s polls are on the upswing. Keep those scandals going, Dalton.
Since the Ontario Liberals have a majority midterm polls are pretty irrelevant. He will be hard pressed to beat the John Tory lead Progressive Conservatives in the next election. But that is an eternity away so who knows?
