A Tale of Two Signs
July 15, 2015
While on North Service Road this morning, I noticed this new sign announcing upcoming bridge work at Victoria Avenue in Vineland in addition to a similar sign farther down the QEW for work at the Ontario Street bridge in Beamsville.
Though the sign is in Liberal red and does have a slogan on it, most of the sign is informational, giving the location and expected completion date of the construction. For a scandal-plagued regime not above raiding the public treasury for self-promotion, I was actually quite impressed that they didn't go overboard patting themselves on the back.
Contrast that with the approach taken in the SPRM, my former home.
More than a year ago, when I was still there, the Non Democratic Party rolled out a lavish ad campaign at the expense of taxpayers like me, spending over $1 million putting up signs like this at every construction site around the province.
Conspicuously absent are the details of the construction project such as the estimated completion date, cost and the specifics on what's actually being done. Clearly, the sign's only purpose is to tell us poor suckers how grateful we should be for the infinite wisdom of the NDP. Steady growth. Good jobs. Words to make any Manitoban, past or present, vomit.
Yet another reason among many that I'm so glad to be out of the SPRM.
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