Xref: utcsri ont.general:26210 Path: utcsri!utnut!torn!newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!orion.yorku.ca!as401627 From: as401627@orion.yorku.ca Newsgroups: ont.general Subject: List of Bob Rae & NDP's follies and flip flops Date: 30 Mar 95 22:33:10 -500 Organization: York University Lines: 16 Message-ID: <1995Mar30.223310.1@orion.yorku.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: orion.yorku.ca A timely reminder to Ontario Voters of Bob Rae and the NDP's follies and flip flops during the past four years. Non-exhaustive list: Public Auto Insurance Social Contract Free University tution Same-sex benefits Shirly Martell Peter North Sunday Shopping Trippling of the deficit.......... Feel free to tag on any folly or flip flop that I missed. After all, we, Ontarians, can't afford another NDP government. From taraujo@triodem.com Sun Mar 3 13:49:38 1996 Xref: elastic can.politics:48982 ont.general:30356 tor.general:33434 Path: elastic!lethe!geac!onramp.ca!grumpy.insinc.net!news.magic.mb.ca!avernus21.magic.ca!user From: taraujo@triodem.com (Tony Araujo) Newsgroups: tor.general,ont.general,can.politics Subject: Re: WHERE IS OPSEU'S MONEY? Date: 2 Mar 1996 22:32:22 GMT Organization: Triodem Technical Services Ltd. Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <4h7fjf$adg@granite.sentex.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: avernus21.magic.ca In article <4h7fjf$adg@granite.sentex.net>, Barry Bruyea wrote: > Why does OPSEU, who have been collecting dues for what, 25 or so years, > have to borrow money from other unions? They've never had a strike, so > they couldn't have used it up paying picketers. So, what have they > done with it? Surely, their donations to the NDP can't account for > all of it; or could it? We must be talking millions here! I would think > the membership, who are going to have to pay back 22 million dollars > should be getting a little curious. Especially as there will probably > be an increase in dues when they return to work. Moreso, as there > will be fewer of them and the interest on this loan is going to accumulate > pretty quick. It went into their shiny new headquarters - all $16 million of it. In today's market it's valued at 3 million. What a deal! And they pretend to be able to tally up an accurate costing of their current contract demands. Who do you believe - Leah Casselman's $500 million or Dave Johnson's $1.5 billion? -- "...accidents speak louder than words" - R. Poindexter