Dear Dalton

[bcholmes]

Dear Dalton,

I never expected much from you. I was mostly content with your government coming to power four years ago simply because you weren't Ernie Eves and you weren't Mike Harris. But I never really believed that you'd be a good government.

I also haven't really trusted you. I didn't really believe that you were an evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet. But I remember when you stood against Bob Rae's same-sex marriage bill back in the early nineties. Oh, sure: you stood up to say a few nice words about how maybe we need to be respectful of queer folk, but you couldn't bring yourself to stand in favour of the bill because you "couldn't trust the Rae government", whatever that means.

But, for me, the crux of my annoyance with you has related to the province's utter failure to provide adequate funding for the city of Toronto. We've been in dire financial straits for the entire time of the Liberal provincial government and again and again you've said that you weren't going to do anything to help.

So now that your poll numbers are slipping, and people are saying that you're only gonna get a minority government, now you're finally ponying up some $936 million bucks for municipalities. Um, except that only $217 million is coming to Toronto.

Well, fuck you Dalton. Sure, I'm starting to lose my patience with the NDP, mostly because the federal party can't be bothered to think about what's going on in Haiti. But there's zero chance I'll vote for the Liberal candidate in my riding.

Screw you,
BC