Well, that didn’t take long: Premier Wynne to freeze civil servant pay

According to the Toronto Sun, Premier Wynne said:

The budget that we are going to be re-introducing in the next couple of weeks is the same budget that we introduced at the beginning of May and there is no new money for wages and salaries in that budget,” Wynne said. “So any groups or individuals who supported us either knew that or they should get to know it now because that’s the plan that we brought forward.”

Well she sure didn’t emphasize that in her campaign.

On Tuesday, I posted an article predicting that Premier Wynne would stab her union supporters in the back now that she has got her majority. I was right, except in that the timelines I was considering was a year or two, not two days. I also advised this:

If Kathleen Wynne is smart, she will pull a Dalton McGuinty and break all her promises immediately.

The only thing is, at the time I wrote those words, even I didn’t think she would be so brazen as to take my advice so openly. I also wrote: 

The only choice was whether to elect the honest, straight shooter or his dishonest and deluded rivals. 

Well Mr. Union Man, what do you think now about supporting the party of dishonesty?

 

P.S. If the pay freeze really was buried in the fine print of the Wynne budget, it speaks poorly of the Hudak campaign that they didn't dig it up and feature it in anti-Liberal attack ads aimed at splitting her off from her union supporters. As I said before, no killer instinct.

Comments

[Copinacus]

Well we'll see. The dolt was starting to talk tough before he ducked and ran. We'll see how tough the lady is when the Teachers Unions, the Doctors "union", the Police unions, and all the rest are camping out at Queens Park calling for her head.
If she's not afraid to take these guys on, she will have my support for as long as she wants.

[S M]

Very smart move on her part. The unions wouldn't dare criticize her days after they put her in power, it would make them look foolish and expose them for the dupes they are. They'll sit in the corner and take it for now. I figure they’ll start to get vocal in about 6 months.

[climatecriminal]

no need for the unions to worry, 4 years from now she will pay them off with interest, and I'm sure they know this but they will still play the we're offended charade

[don morris]

Wynne's more politically astute than I gave her credit for, this is a necessary move.Ontario has no money to spend on making fat cats fatter.

Hudak is just another in a long line of conservative failures in this Country.

Maybe some day the Conservative Parties will smarten up and realise it's about image, not policy,especially in our major cities,which are just chock full of civil servants.

[mon]

I am not surprised. That's what Smokey Warren Thomas who is head of OPSEU (the only union to oppose the Wynne budget) stated. Besides if she didn't do this the bond markets would have forced her

[Steve O]

I still think their is a deal under the table. If I am wrong I will say so. I still believe that she is a clone of Dalton and is just not showing her full hand yet. BTW what happened to the Gas Plant, Orange and Green energy scandles oh! and the Mars fiasco..seems to have gotten very quiet on these fronts..Just Sayin...Steve O

[Martin]

I predicted that Wynne will eventually implement the freeze in PS growth that Hudak was talking so much about. She may not explicitly state it, but she can quietly allow the PS to contract.She will have to, just to keep the bond rating people satisfied.

[Auto Guy]

Right now I am actually glad that the PC's lost. Hudak may be a good MPP, but he was a poor leader. He just couldn't communicate conservative ideas well and (as has been said) lacked the killer instinct. Too worried about being civil? Anyways, Wynn is doing what had to be done and we'll get a PC leader who will hopefully be better.