A reply to Martin Regg Cohn’s column: “Gambling on Horses hasn’t paid off”
It’s hard to know if Toronto Star columnist Martin Regg Cohn is trying to use horse racing as a way to ‘spank’ the Provincial Liberal party. Maybe he is showcasing what he believes to be a “dying Liberal brand” through the Ontario government’s attempts to revive horse racing in Ontario. Regardless, Cohn’s column in the Toronto Star[1] of June 16, 2015 fails at both. I won’t take the time here to retell the story of the rise and fall of the Slots at the Racetrack Program (SARP) or the Wynne’s government’s work to breathe life back into the industry. We all know the story and we have heard it countless times before. So let me tell a bit of a different story. When the McGuinty government pulled the plug on…