Let the fun and games begin

The lies start in six short days.
Even though the writ to launch the Ontario election campaign isn't being dropped until Monday, Lies My Candidate Told Me is taking to the stage.
Premier Dalton McGuinty is trying to grab your vote by giving you a day off.
Vaughan-King-Aurora MP Greg Sorbara made it abundantly clear: If the Liberals are re-elected, Ontario will get a new statutory holiday in February.
The Grits would score more votes if they'd cancel February all together. When it comes to the second month of the year, who needs it? Who likes it? Who cares?
Instead of avoiding work on Labour Day weekend, Progressive Conservative Leader John Tory opened his campaign office in Don Valley West. Actually, he has been out there peddling his party for some time. Nice guy. Nice smile. But why John thinks he can take over the province when he couldn't capture Toronto is beyond me.
To make sure the New Democrats are the party of choice of the working man (and woman), NDP leader Howard Hampton marched in the Labour Day parade. Howard's much like John. Nice guy. Nice smile. But, come on, why doesn't Howard admit there's a lesson to be learned from Gordon Lightfoot's Sundown.
"Sometimes, I think its a sin,
When I feel like I'm winnin' when I'm losin again."
In case you care, the 1990 provincial election remains my very favourite.
When the New Democratics made history and formed the government 17 years ago, the Liberals and Conservatives picked themselves up off the floor and did the customary post-election autopsy. Results showed Ontario went out for a one-night stand and ended up married.
I thought it was a hoot.
Instead of the same old, same old, we had new name, new faces and new mistakes —Premier Bob Rae wasted no time establishing his legacy of reckless spending and, of course, his memorable Rae Days. Take it from me: It was refreshing to have our teachers switch from kissing to bashing the NDP.
Poor Bob. A lot of the scary stuff wasn't his fault. Just as he came into power, the Bank of Canada jacked the Canadian prime rate six points higher than prime in the United States. While it was suppose to fight inflation, it was really done to shock Canada into the Free Trade Agreement.
It was a disaster from the get-go. The made-in-Canada recession threw million of people out of work, decimated the manufacturing sector and left Bob's government deep in the red.
It gave us all goosebumps. Bosses wasted no time telling anyone with a job they were damned lucky to have one. In fact, this job thing got so popular, most of us did the work of two just to prove we could run scared with the best of them. 
Times, they've changed.
I predict two things: Unlike the early '90s, the Oct. 10 election will not be remembered. The Liberals will lose a few seats — it'll be punishment for breaking promises right, left and centre. But in the end, the voters will ask themselves one question. Who died?
Sine the answer will be nobody, the Grits will get re-elected.
And, in keeping with tradition, the provincial Liberals will continue to deliver a milk-toast government.