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Proroguing legislature strategic: Miller
MUSKOKA – Parry Sound-Muskoka MPP Norm Miller is suspicious about why Premier Dalton McGuinty has put the...

Dalton McGuinty blindsided us this week. We just didn’t see it coming.
The premier took the national spotlight on Monday night when he suddenly resigned his post as premier one year into his government’s mandate and prorogued the legislature just one day into the session.
He what? Why? Sputtered, shocked protests rang out across the province.
There has been much speculation about his reasons. Some say he’s positioning himself to take on pretty boy socialite Justin Trudeau for the Liberal leadership.
Sure he’s a politician but we didn’t think he was that kind of opportunist.
Others, Norm Miller for one, think things got too hot to handle for McGuinty with the brewing scandal over cost to taxpayers for two gas-fired power plant projects in southern Ontario. The scandal is bound to get ugly, as the bill hikes into the mega-million-dollar stratosphere.
So he shuts down the government to avoid a scalding? We didn’t think he was that kind of coward.
The cost to taxpayers of prorogation and the certain delays in government that come with it are hard to calculate. However, with the deficit our province is struggling with, it won’t be anything we can afford.
The point is you just don’t walk out on the marriage when things get tough. Yes, running a provincial household is hard when you only have a minority, but it just means you have to play a little nicer. Did McGuinty leave the party because the other politicos wouldn’t support his wage freeze? We didn’t think he was that kind of dictator.
District of Muskoka Chair John Klinck says the prorogation will affect Muskokans because this government has already been less than receptive to our issues. Now nothing will happen until a new leader is elected and then that new leader will have to come up to speed.
He’s hopeful though – it’s in his nature. Klinck is grasping at a golden promise that perhaps a change in ministerial responsibility will benefit us. When we look at recent history with the demise of the Northlander, the threats to the local jobs at the MNR and Ontario Parks, and the province’s refusal to even recognize our Muskoka as part of an economic region, we can’t think things could be much worse.

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