Scheer short on policy, long on Liberal attacks
Re Scheer hits back after attack ads link him to Ford, June 12 Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer threatens to remind voters what former Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne did as retaliation for Liberal attack ads.
If Scheer or one of his children had respiratory problems, he’d know that Wynne gave Ontario cleaner air, a major issue in the summertime, especially in our larger cities. Premier Doug Ford’s dodo response was to cancel the Drive Clean program, foisting little pockets of pollution on us because Drive Clean was unpopular.
Wynne overspent, but Ford is matching her every step of the way on that, while eviscerating programs that are the very best things governments do for their citizens — most maddeningly in the areas of health care and education.
Scheer is same old/same old, a Stephen Harper with more congeniality. He’s not going to stick the word “progressive” back in the party’s name, because his is the party of yesteryear, not to mention the fact the Ford Conservatives have made a mockery out of that adjective. Ron Charach, Toronto Andrew Scheer repeats he is not like Doug Ford and that he has his own approach. In the next sentence he says, “We’re going to be laying down our own policies.”
Isn’t it a little late to be thinking about your policies? Shouldn’t they be out by now so Canadians can consider and compare them and have solid reasons to say yes or no to Scheer? The truth is that you are a lot like Ford: disappointingly short on policy before the election yet long on self-aggrandizement and attacking the opposition.
How would a Conservative government be different from the current one, Mr. Scheer? How would you manage environmental, Indigenous, housing and immigration concerns? How would you direct our economy to maintain a record low jobless rate, our lowest of the G7 debt-to-GDP, our competitive edge in AI and aerospace?
What are your ideas? What is your vision and how would we achieve it?
I would absolutely consider voting for you if you shared solid policy and platform planks well before the election.
Until then, you’re just peddling a brand that expects Canadians to switch from the current path of measurable success and progress to an unknown one based on criticism and attacks. Eugene Spanier, Etobicoke