The good news is that Premier Dalton McGuinty is no longer the premier of Ontario. I hold that he effectively quit being the premier of Ontario last Fall when on October 15 he announced that he was stepping down and prorogued the legislature indefinitely. But McGuinty carried on the day to day business of the legislature as if he still held the keys to power.

If the MPPs can’t meet and do their legislative duties, then they have no work to do, and they shouldn’t get paid. They should pay back their salaries for the months the legislature was prorogued – including the MPPs salary for the man who prorogued the provincial legislature, Dalton McGuinty himself.  This should not affect office staff. They were not an accomplice in orchestrating this action.

Premier McGuinty arranged an interview with the Lieutenant Governor in David Onley ’s ornate office at Queen’s Park, and Onley’s staff were 99 per cent sure that McGuinty was going to request prorogation, but the announcement of his resignation was a surprise to everyone. Still, Onley said he was prepared to accept the request for prorogation. As a loyal citizen of Canada, and aware of the Magna Carta, all he could do was advise and warn. The public dubbed it dictatorship. Many people are still apoplectic about prorogation.

McGuinty made it clear that prorogation would not a have a specific date for ending. Yet, as both he and Onley certainly know, the Standing Orders of the Legislature call for a specific date for the House to resume (although they have an out in that the  doesn’t call for it). The past practice has been inconsistent. This has created confusion that could have been addressed very easily by making one choice of action take precedent over the other. But politicians realize if they did this it might take away a last desperate move to save their skins some time in the future. Prorogation was done twice recently by Harper Conservatives in Ottawa, and of this writing forced on the people by McGuinty Ontario Liberals trying to avoid falling into a snake pit. Minority governments are shaky things and politicians like their room to maneuver.

I also hold that the new Premier, Kathleen Wynne, an acknowledged lesbian, was not elected in a free election, but a staged election at a Liberal Party Convention.

We were originally told by the Liberal Party brass that Premier Wynne would go immediately to the voters of Ontario for confirmation of her selection as Ontario Liberal Party leader. Do the math of 2500 delegates at the old Maple Leaf Gardens for the Liberal convention, and you’ll know that more than 99.9 per cent of the people in Ontario had no role whatsoever in deciding the premier of the province. I don’t see the Ontario Liberals making any big plans for an election. Maybe I blinked and missed it.

Premier Kathleen Wynne was a former minister of education who held a number of key posts in McGuinty’s government. She was a strong ally of the former premier and enjoyed support from the homosexuals among the 2,400 voting delegates at the convention (while thousands of teachers raged outside on the streets).

Under Liberal Party rules, Wynne would automatically become the new Premier of Ontario. So with the support of 57 per cent of loyal Liberals, Wynne governs 100 per cent of Ontarians.

Wynne, the  noted in a front page story, wasted no time cementing her status as a LBGT role model for impressionable young people but at the same time played down the issue. We are constantly told that she’s the first openly lesbian premier but at the same time we’re told it doesn’t matter.

Two years ago,  carried a news story about McGuinty and Wynne being frightened off their efforts to stuff very explicit sexual material down pre-pubescent children’s throats. Parents complained that the material was inappropriate for young children. The parents won a temporary victory. The Queen’s Park rumour mill has it that Wynne might re-introduce a radical sex education curriculum.

I would have voted for Dalton McGuinty – but it would have to have been his father, Dalton McGuinty Sr. He was a man of impeccable integrity throughout his whole life, quitting his position with the federal Liberals when Pierre Trudeau and John Tuner legalized abortion. Dalton Sr. moved to provincial politics and too briefly served as a pro-life MPP. In this case, however, the seed fell far from the tree.