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Premier Dalton McGuinty has announced he is resigning. McGuinty, who has led the Liberals since 1996 and been premier since 2003, stunned his caucus Monday night announcing it’s time for “renewal” at the helm of the party. “I’ve concluded that this is the right time for Ontario’s next Liberal Premier and our next set of ideas to guide our province forward,” McGuinty told his caucus. “Earlier today, I asked Yasir Naqvi, our party president, to convene a leadership convention at the earliest possible time.

Times of international turmoil are great moments for domestic governments to make important announcements they don’t want to be noticed. Especially if the announcement involves a sudden reversal in policy that could seriously embarrass the government. So Friday afternoon was an ideal time for Ontario’s Liberal government to take a big chunk of its alternative energy program and chuck it overboard. .. After years of touting wind projects as a critical piece of the alternative energy puzzle, the government let slip — very quietly — that offshore wind projects are no longer part of the game plan. Turns out there...

Tuesday September 7, 2010 Catholics’ Constitutional Rights No Safeguard Under Ontario Equity Strategy: CLC By Patrick B. CraineTORONTO, Ontario, September 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Assurances that Catholics’ constitutionally-guaranteed denominational rights will be respected under Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s equity and inclusive education strategy are a “distraction” and a “clever tactic” to stave off rebuke from Catholic leaders, says Campaign Life Coalition, which is waging a campaign to have the strategy scrapped. (To find out more, click here)“By its very nature, McGuinty’s plan forces Catholic boards to violate Church teaching and accept the homosexual agenda because it forces all school...

Abortion Debate Enters Ontario Election - Premier McGuinty "I fully support" Abortion By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, September 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A lengthy article published in the Ottawa Citizen Monday, which is being seen by some as a crassly one-sided pro-abortion propaganda piece, decried wait times for abortions in the city.  The article points out that the Ontario Liberal Government has given the private Morgentaler abortion centre in Ottawa enough taxpayer dollars to pay for thousands abortions this year alone.  "A.G. Klei, spokesman for the Ontario Ministry for Health and Long-Term Care, says the ministry provided enough money for the...

Ontario Premier Scandalized Catholic Students, Says Leading Catholic Magazine Editor "Particularly offensive" that McGuinty says he can remain Catholic in good standing while advocating abortion and same-sex "marriage" September 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - With statements made on Sept. 17 at a Markham Catholic high school that his so-called "private" Catholic faith does not determine his positions on public policy, Premier Dalton McGuinty scandalized his youthful audience, says the editor of Canada's leading Catholic magazine of news and opinion.  "There is no such thing as a 'private' Catholic faith," says Father Alphonse de Valk, editor of Catholic Insight magazine. "From the...

Liberal Premier Does Campaign Stop at Catholic High School; Tells Students He Disregards Faith By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, September 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - When it comes to his Catholic faith, it plays no part in his political decisions.  So said Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty in a campaign stop at St. Augustine's Catholic High School, in Markham, Ontario yesterday before 130 students.  "My Catholicism, my private faith, does not determine my position. My responsibility to the public interest does," he said. The Premier has followed the example of pro-abortion former Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin in using Catholic schools as campaign...

A scandal over $32 million in grants to multicultural groups has cost Ontario Immigration and Citizenship Minister Mike Colle his job and jolted Premier Dalton McGuinty's government with an election just 11 weeks away. Colle resigned as minister yesterday after Auditor General Jim McCarter slammed spending controls on the grants as among "the worst that we've ever seen." Colle acknowledged the money was often doled out with little or no paperwork. He is the first McGuinty minister lost to scandal, and it comes just a little more than six weeks before the Oct. 10 election campaign gets under way in...

Bob the Moose has his day in court By MARK BONOKOSKI Toronto Sun Sunday, February 25, 2007 The longest-running custody battle in the history of moosedom resumes tomorrow in a Newmarket courtroom, with hordes of media — a herd of hacks, perhaps? — hoping Bob the Moose will finally be physically hauled before Justice of the Peace Ann Forfar in a last-minute “habeas capitis” motion. In other words, “show me the head,” or set him free. Will JP Forfar then say this has gone too far? Or will Forfar say so far so good? Until the gavel drops, supporters...

Where's the rule of law when you need it? National Post Fri 13 Oct 2006 Page: A16 Section: Editorials Byline: Lorne Gunter When the subject is two-tiered health care, Canadian politicians are quick to insist they will accept nothing less than a single standard for all Canadians. But when there is a two-tiered application of the law -- one for natives and another for non-natives -- our leaders mumble, cast their gazes downward and paw the ground. None of them wants to touch the subject. These passionate defenders of equality for all suddenly become blobs of inarticulate jelly. Sunday,...

Doing nothing while natives run riot Lorne Gunter National Post Monday, June 12, 2006 Whatever the merits of the native land claims in Caledonia, Ont., all negotiations and government concessions must now end until native protesters agree to dismantle their barricades and end their illegal occupation of a housing development they claim is on aboriginal land. The protesters' lawlessness has been allowed to go on too long. More importantly, their behaviour is getting worse, not better. Rewarding it with further deference -- with promises that their grievances will be heard before their violence and illegality have ended -- will...

May 12, 2005 EDITORIAL: Fiberal 'fiscal discipline' It's no wonder some Canadians confuse federal and provincial political parties -- especially Liberal ones. Consider: In Ottawa, we have federal Liberals who are desperately making spending promises they can't keep in a bid to cling to power. They keep changing their budget, touting it as the answer to everything ordinary Canadians want, if only we re-elect them when the inevitable election comes -- likely after the budget vote now set for a week from today. Meanwhile, yesterday at Queen's Park, we saw provincial Liberals desperately make spending promises they can't keep,...

Online Petition To Premier Dalton McGuinty: On the 11th of September 2003 you signed a pledge to uphold the Taxpayers’ Protection and Balanced Budget Act if your party formed the next government of Ontario. You specifically promised to: “Not raise taxes or implement new taxes without the explicit consent of Ontario voters; and Not run deficits.” Since then, you have broken both of these promises. Your budget of May 18, 2004 has increased taxes, imposed new taxes, and will run this province further into the red for years to come. You also plan to gut the Taxpayer Protection and Balanced...

ORONTO (Reuters) - Voters in Ontario, Canada's richest province, turned their backs on Thursday on eight years of Conservative Party rule, handing an overwhelming majority to the Liberal government that promises to roll back tax cuts given by the Conservatives. The Liberals, led by Dalton McGuinty, captured 71 seats in Ontario's 103-seat Legislature, compared with 25 seats for the Conservative Party of Premier Ernie Eves. The left-leaning New Democratic Party won seven seats across the province.The Liberal Party's landslide win marked a stark reversal from the 1999 election, when it won 35 seats compared with the Conservative Party's 59-seat win.The...