The Rintrah Perspective

The Regressive Conservatives, under Hugh McGruff, are truly stuck in the past. First it was the use of the word “crime fighters” which is a call-back to the hay-day of organized crime. Then it was the grand idea of new prisons as a solution to crime problems which the same mentality that has been kicking around North America for too long with far too few results. Now these conservative dunder-heads have reached up their ass and pulled out the Winnipeg Jets.

That’s right. Bring back the Winnpeg Jets. Why? To keep the youth in the province. Tory thinking is that in order to keep Manitoba young, Manitoba need to have an NHL franchise.

What should be happening, you might ask? Simple. Nix the crime-fighter and prison pledge and forget the Jets. If it were economically viable and sound then a private sector group would have approached the government. Not the other way around. Never the other way around.

What should happen is there should be more money invested in green technological research and development. More money should be invested in univerisities and colleges to increase new, emerging and green technology. This would draw youth to the province and provide jobs. All the while working with Aboriginals and tying the environment to their historic claims to the land. A partnership between the Manitoba governemnt, aboriginals and youth.

But the tories have only one gear and it is reverse. Everything the Hugh McGruff has suggested reaches into the past and tries to paint it as a new and exciting idea. But nothing is new. Nothing is exciting. It is a repeat of “All in the Family” but the voice of the Progressive is silenced and no one is laughing at Archie.

[Update] They are talking about this on CBC as I write this and one comment made me smile, mostly because I agree. The caller suggested that before we bring back the Jets we should bring back the Atlantic cod or the Prairie Bison. He suggested the youth that would stay here because of a sports team only go “Rah-Rah-Rah” and that we shouldn’t want those youth. And he is right. We want youth who want to create and make the province something worth-while. Sports is not really a drawing factor.

What a stupid suggestion it is that this would re-vitalize the province.