Unpublished Op-Ed submitted to the Toronto Star. Additions have been made.

Gullible, narrow-minded voters who so eagerly embraced the carny barker in Doug Ford are now seeing what the real show is. Mike Harris 2. He has trotted out the well-worn and much used mantra of white, male, neoconservatives: cutting corporate liability and taxes, cutting a broad swath of critically needed public services and supports under the auspices of reducing the deficit and getting there by attacking working Ontarians and their wages. Ontario is open for business. This means business in the 1880s when there were no restrictions on corporations or industrial activity much like the current climate in China and the Far East where environmental, labour and all kinds of other kinds of social protections are absent.  These were what made North America so great but globalization ended all that. Continue reading →