NDP Ad Just Plain Silly

Ad Is Simply Misleading

Doesn't Build Trust In Party

I realize for the next few weeks we are going to be assaulted with messages from all different political parties. The PC will tell us how evil Iggie is, Iggie will tell us how terrible Harper is, and the NDP will tell us how terrible they both are.

I presume all these tactics must appeal to the 'base' these parties are aiming at, but personally I find most of them simply an insult to the average person's intellect.

I realize that healthcare is the NDP mantra and have been riding on Tommy's coat tails for years, without ever actually accomplishing anything other than giving the hard working blue collar guys a place to park their votes where it is safe from the business friendly fiends of Younge St. and all those evil corporations that everyone works for.

Just Plain Wrong!

The current cute ad the NDP brain trust came up with tries to pin the Emergency Room debacle of a few weeks back on Stephen Harper. Anyone familiar with the 'facts' surrounding this issue knows that Harper does not run the hospital affected, in fact the province does in a round about fashion as well as the staff at the hospital itself.

I was just as shocked when I first heard the news story about ER patients having to be treated in a Tim Hortons one night. Sounded terrible as I had visions of people in stretchers being wheeled across the street to the local 'Timmies'.

Turns out, the Tim Hortons was IN the hospital adjacent the ER and had actually been designed to handle overflow in the event an unusual emergency happened. Which apparently is what did happen, and the ER was overwhelmed with about 100 patients coming in as the result of an accident. Enough to overwhelm most ER's anywhere!

So what is Mr. Layton suggesting, that we triple the size of our ER's to handle the unusual emergency? Since we as a nation are only $500 billion in the hole, how much more debt is he willing to heap onto my grand kids?

Come on, Jack, you are insulting the intelligence of anyone who actually cares about how the country is run and should give your head a shake.

While you're at it, give Stephen and Iggie's head a shake too.
If you agree let local NDP MP Jean Crowder know what you think about this kind of nonsense. Drop her a line HERE.