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February 18, 2005
Broken Promise Fatigue has set in
Yesterday, Dalton McGuinty's government announced $280-million so schools can "secure financing for $4 billion worth of repairs, additions and new schools." The news release also says the new policy will "slow down school closures."
So the Liberals, who at every opportunity, called for a "moratorium on school closures" when they were in opposition and bemoaned the "creeping privatization of public services" whenever the then-governing Conservatives attempted to leverage private sector money with an investment of taxpayers dollars, are merely going to slow down school closures and are trying to leverage private sector money with a modest investment of taxpayer dollars.
Not surprisingly, the media haven't bothered to cover this aspect of the Liberals' Jekyll and Hyde routine, but in this case it isn't because they don't care or are displaying a Liberal-friendly bias. Instead I think the media are suffering from a bad case broken promise fatigue.
There are only so many ways to cover a broken promise story and the Queen's Park Press Gallery has probably used most of them already, so it isn't worth wasting another angle on a mere policy inconsistencies when there are certain to be more whoppers to come.
Posted by maxthecat on February 18, 2005 at 09:49 AM | Comments (0)
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