The current premier's dad was in that gov't.

Ontario don't care, it seems. Canadians just bend over and take it.

Around here (Flamborough, outside of Hamilton/Burlington) there's a whole layer of people who rant and rant and rant about being amalgamated into Hamilton.

Except those same people who rant about it, are almost all conservative voters. And it was the conservatives under Harris who forced that amalgamation.

It boggles the mind, the short memory people have.

What's pretty wild is that even though you can later uncover the corruption the deals are allowed to stand. When in fact all of the participants should end up in jail with their assets forfeited.

In general this is never spoken of as corruption here. Not in mainstream discourse anyways. It's spoken of as a "bad deal", but the "C" word isn't really deployed.

In the early/mid-90s recessionary period when this was inked, the justification was excessively high debts incurred by the previous provincial gov't. Austerity was the name of the game, and decisions like these were seen as "wise fiscal management." Those debts now look minor compared to the present, and we'd have been in much better fiscal situation keeping the toll road public and letting that money flow back.