Shit for brains Joe Oliver... screwing Ontario

Hectoring from Ottawa won’t solve Ontario’s fiscal woes: Goar

Federal Finance Minister Joe Oliver lost no time delivering his first post-election lecture to Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne. Four days after the vote, he called for an aggressive attack on Ontario’s deficit. “We hope that her government will follow our lead toward a balanced budget,” he said. “Canada cannot arrive at its potential if the biggest province remains in difficulty.”
 

Apart from the fact that he has no jurisdiction over provincial finances, Oliver’s intervention was unhelpful in three ways. He ignored the fact that Ontarians had just rejected his formula, championed by defeated Conservative leader Tim Hudak. He ignored the fact that Ontario is struggling to replace its manufacturing base. And he ignored the fact that Ontario, unlike Ottawa, doesn’t have resource revenues pouring into its coffers.
 

But there was a bigger oversight in Oliver’s unsolicited advice. He did not offer to lift a finger. He did not identify a single step he could take to lighten Ontario’s fiscal load and get the Canadian national economy firing on all cylinders.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/06/22/hectoring_from_ottawa_wont_solve_ontarios_fiscal_woes_goar.html