If I were in charge of Ontario.

If by chance one day the powers that be came to me and let me be in Charge of the Province of Ontario I would make plenty of changes and honestly make this province a better and more fiscal province.

1. Fix the Education system. First to go would be EQAQ tests. To many educators put way to much time into these tests and they take away from real teaching time. Secondly I would put a moritorium on School closures. Too many school boards are using school closings as a way to shut out small communities.

2. Introduce two tier healthcare. Lets be realistic here, our current healthcare system doesn't work and needs a desperate fix. Two tier healthcare would cut costs on our system, and would open up for profit healthcare for private clinics and doctors, It would also give current med school graduates an incentive to stay in Ontario to practise and it would give hospitals and clinics a chance to pay a competitive salary to those in the US.

3. Cut taxes, give tax incentives to attract new business to Ontario, Ontario has taxed our industries and small businesses to death they cant stay competitive. Cut taxes, give them a chance to grow. I would steal a page out of Steven Harper's book and cut the PST to 7 percent. I would also eliminate the red tape to business starting up in Ontario.

4. Privatize every highway side service plaza in the Province, I would sell them, the province doesn't need to be owning these plazas. They could make a fair bit of money off these properties when they would sell.

5. Cut back the salaries of all MPP's there is no reason why they voted themselves their last pay raise. Eliminate the HST, it's a waste and another tax grab for McGuinty.

6. Eliminate Speed Limiters on Commercial Vehicles- It's been proven that Speeding Trucks are not the problems on our highways yet our wonderful Liberal government bought it hook line and sinker from OTA president David Bradley who brought up Speed Limiters to in his eyes level the playing field which was also a line of bull.

This Province used to be a have province, eversince Dalton has took over he has slowly destroyed this province with scandal after scandal, and tax after tax. In 2011 lets wake up and give Dalton his walking papers. Lets make Ontario great again.

Buzz Hargrove would be proud of you Dolton.

Well well well. With the Drive Test strike entering week 1000 and the residents in London about to be shut out of public transit come tommorow morning causing havoc to many students a people that rely on public transit. Meanwhile Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty who hasn't met a union he didn't like seems unwilling to bring up back to work legislation for the DriveTest strike causing problems for people currently with licenses that need renewing and one's that need road tests i.e. AZ road tests so that these should be newly minted drivers can go to work and GET OFF OF E.I, And I'm willing to bet that no matter how long the transit strike in London goes on Dalton won't care. Yep Buzz Hargrove would be proud of you Dalton. Here's hoping that the voters of Ontario wisen up and come Oct 2011 they send you packing. You've made a big enough mess as is.

ARC 13 a.k.a the biggest waste of taxpayer money and time!

I brought this up when this ARC started in January about the whole thing is a crock, and 11 months later I think I'm pretty close on my assessment. If they really wanted a true discussion on what to do with the schools lets have a PUBLIC forum and let everyone have a say. The current system doesn't allow for that, instead the recommendations put forward at the end of this were put their by Parent Council EXECUTIVE members that had their own personal agendas in putting forth these recommendations and don't truly give a DAMN what the majority of parents wanted in the end. In the end it's the Taxpayer that gets screwed in the end. I hope that in the end the TVDSB does what they have done in every other ARC and ignore the recommendations and go with the one's they presented at the beginning. My biggest problem with the ARC all along was that the only ones that had any say in the end were overzealous Parent group people that DID NOT poll their school community to see what they thought, on top of that the recommendations that they did put forth will add up to much more cost than the cost of closing the 4 schools, again who do they think is going to pay for this. This whole ARC just reeks of self interest and secrecy from the public and in my opinion that's the true crime of the matter.

There are changes that Desperately need to be implemented in the way they decide to close schools.

1. Eliminate the use of ARC's from the process outside of the community reps the only people on these committee's are self serving and doesn't give a DAMN what the rest of the parents in their school community want. I have proof of this claim, just ask I will tell.

2. Make it mandatory that OPEN public meetings are held at EACH school, eliminate Parent Councils from running the meetings. Have a vote on the recommendations that are brought forth during the meeting, and that the only ones that go forward are ones that passed a PUBLIC vote.

3. Dissolve the current school boards and return to the school boards from pre-amalgamation, which would add trustees from your LOCAL area and Eliminate the current system of voting where there are only 2 voting from the area and the rest are from out of the local area.

In the end there are some of you that think that I'm spewing out sour grapes, I can assure you I am not the school that my kids attend is one of the one's in the study that will get an addition. I feel that the Thames Valley District School Board has had a vendetta against schools outside of London, just look at the facts. They have built plenty of new schools within London and only a handful in the rural area while closing way to many schools. I have a even better idea, the next school board elections are next year, let's hold these trustees accountable and vote EVERY one of them out. I can think of one in my area that should have been run out of office years ago. Lets put new faces and new ideas on the board of trustees and lets keep them accountable each and every one of them. If they know they are going to have their feet held to the fire then they will soon learn that when their constituents say something they better damn well listen.

The public input meeting on the current recommendations will be held at Princess Elizabeth Public Schools in Ingersoll on November 18th at 7pm, to get your name on the list to speak at the meeting email Susan Van Aarsen at s.vanaarsen@tvdsb.on.ca A group will be granted 10 minutes to present and an individual will be given 5 minutes. I urge people to come out and see what the future education of your kids will look like if these people get their way, It's time to get off the sidelines people and time to get involved what better time than now to start.

To view the recommendations put forth by the ARC just click on the title of the blog.