** May 11, 2011 **
Mr. James Ryan, President
Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association
65 St. Clair Avenue East, Suite 400
Toronto, Ontario M4T 2Y8
Dear Mr. Ryan,
As a 25-year member of the CFIB, we have always had the option of cancelling our membership and withholding our dues, which is exactly what we would do if the CFIB decided to engage in mandatory partisan support as your union has done.
You claim your members have “embraced your political action plan” as is their “fundamental democratic right”? What of the rights of your members who have contacted opposition offices claiming they do not wish to support the McGuinty Liberals because they are bankrupting our province? How can it be “their money” if your union is spending it on the Liberal campaign?
This couldn’t be more transparent and is a disgraceful insult to the taxpayers. It is the same old Liberal story: they give you public sector unions everything you want and you help them get re-elected, regardless of the cost to future generations.
The simple fact here is that you are funded by taxpayers and you have no right to use OUR money for partisan campaigns. Since you dispute this, my question to you & the MPP’s copied here is simply this: where do we as taxpayers sign to opt out of paying the tax portion that goes to your public union monopoly?
We would prefer that our money goes to educating students rather than corrupt Liberal campaign coffers.
Thanks,
Rob Viles
Controller, co-owner
All Tool Manufacturing Inc.
143 Brockley Drive
Hamilton, ON, L8E 3C4
(905) 578-2752 Ext.230
Fax: (905) 561-0699
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