Coyle: Harris and the rage on our streets

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Coyle: Harris and the rage on our streets
Jan. 4, 2006. 08:44 AM
JIM COYLE


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James Travers, Toronto Star, Oct. 20, 2001


"In the next few weeks, former Ontario premier Mike Harris is to appear before a judicial inquiry to explain his government's conduct in the 1995 confrontation at Ipperwash provincial park that left an Indian protester dead.

Four years ago, Harris was obliged to testify before a similar inquiry into the 2000 tainted water tragedy in Walkerton, Ont., that claimed seven lives — a ghastly fiasco the commissioner would eventually conclude could have been reduced or avoided but for the rash cost-cutting of the former Conservative government.

But the most costly of the former premier's legacies might be that for which no inquiry will hold him accountable.

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``That balance is about compassion, hope, sharing, the true purposes of civilized life — it is about tolerance and equality of opportunity. Eradicating that balance and replacing it with the law of the jungle is what neo-conservatism is all about.''

As the song says, nothing comes from nothing. Not the good that men do. And not the evil."

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1. What neocons real legacy is to the spots they rule. Very true. Neocons

got into power in Ontario and set out for immediate slashing of programs and forced social revolution. Ten years later - the signs are everywhere that they make cities and communities worse.