At the time I felt and still do feel like eHealth and Orng were more the fault of the CEOs and boards of those entities than of Wynne herself.
For the gas plants, Doug Ford is already showing the same tendency: Wynne responded to the NIMBYs and their votes, just like Ford did when, after declaring he'd build on the Green Belt, he did a complete flip-flop when it proved unpopular. Ford's just lucky with timing; he made his promise before an election and contracts with 3rd party developers (which would have had similar clauses to the gas-plant contracts re pulling out) hadn't been signed before he saw the political winds and backed out. He's shown the proclivity already; what will be his "gas plant" scandal?
Seems like her biggest boondoggles were in the hydro portfolio and debt.
While she inherited a seriously ****ed up hydro structure -- lots of companies, lots of apparently greedy and incompetent CEOs and boards all their own -- she pushed the wind and solar green agenda without doing what chief executives must do: analyzing the business case to ensure it made fiscal sense. It's like she wanted to stand in front of the UN and say "Look what I'm doing for the planet!", damn the cost to us.
Wynne's legacy, though, is going to be The Debt. That's what people will be talking about in 30 years...
Even a broken clock is right twice a day and Wynne supporters will be able to sift through the ashes of, as last I heard, the third place ranked party and pick out a few items if worth.
KW's legacy will be just another nail in the coffin of Ontario, a coffin built of poor decisions from the past. Some decisions were Ontario made and a lot were foisted upon us by the feds.
Academics often miss the grass root problems. I have no problem with a fifteen dollar minimum wage but the worker has to contribute $15.00 to the company productivity. What does Ontario make that someone else can't make at a lower price?
Scenario: You want to dig a hole for a pool.
Option 1 Hire 20 labourers at $20 an hour and it takes them a week to do the job. 20 X 20 X 40 = $16,000.00
Option 2 Hire a trained operator with a back hoe, pay him $200 an hour and the job is done in a day. 200 X 8 = $1600.00
If the 20 labourers wanted the job bad enough they would have to work for $2.00 an hour to be financially competitive.
There's nothing wrong with $2.00 an hour if you could buy a house for $5,000.00 and a weeks groceries for $20.00. Good luck on that.
BS figures but it makes a point.
With option 2, what do we do with the 19 unemployed workers?
CNC machining dropped labour prices by up to 90% in some cases.
How to fix?
