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It's never a happy moment when it's disclosed that a member of an admired cultural icon won't honour basic legal and financial commitments. From here:

Foley now owes $17,301.30 monthly toward his two children, who are both now teenagers: the $10,700 in child support agreed to in 2001, now raised to $12,301.30 to reflect cost of living increases, plus $5,000 a month toward the overdue $589,000 he already owes. [...]

Southey’s lawyer, Jacqueline Mills, said Foley also owes arrears for private schools, mortgage payments, health care and tutoring, although she added a precise figure for those expenses did not exist. “I have no comment on the scope of the payments, except that the arrears arose during times when Mr. Foley was making a very large income. Mr. Foley has tried to have the amounts changed a number of times, and after full hearings, his requests have been denied,” Mills wrote in an email to the Star. “Mr. Foley was ordered to provide details of his employment contracts. He has not done so, so we do not know what his income is.”

In McGuinty's Ontario, the situation for most women and men attempting to collect unpaid child support (and arrears) has not improved since Mike Harris was in power.

Pull the other one, Dalton.

Just heard a snippet of news on Radio-Canada, at the top of the hour.

Dalton McGuinty promises Ontario tax-payers that his government will attempt to "show more transparency" in the future, with regard to the province's financial situation. En français - "montrer plus de transparence".

I can't find a recording of McGuinty's exact words, or that news item online at R-C or CBC. Is it a slip, or a deliberate attempt by a copy editor (do they actually still review texts before they're broadcast), to spice up yet another banal utterance by the premier?

I'll update as soon as I find something.

It's official.

Dalton "Don't Cry For Me Mississauga" McGuinty is Stevie Spiteful's bitch.

The only source in English that I could find for what he said on Radio-Canada on the 3pm news broadcast is this one. Essentially McGuinty stated that he will not order a public inquiry that would be legally binding. He told reporters Wednesday that only the federal government can call for such a probe and that his balls the ball is in the Fed's court.

Le premier ministre de l'Ontario, Dalton McGuinty, résiste toujours à la pression et réitère qu'il n'a pas l'intention de déclencher une enquête publique sur le travail des forces de l'ordre lors du sommet du G20 à Toronto.

Ce dernier estime qu'une telle enquête serait plutôt du ressort du gouvernement fédéral.

So our brave, brave premier is hiding behind Stevie and his bullies. That should make him even less popular than he is now.