Randy Hillier

Liberals Start 2012 with Job Killing Tax Hike

Ontario PC Labour Critic Randy Hillier criticized Premier McGuinty today for refusing to postpone the Workplace Safety and Insurance Amendment Act (Bill 119). Bill 119 will spike WSIB premiums for employers and cost job-creators across the province on average an additional $11,000 per year. On January 1st, 2012, the McGuinty Liberals will proclaim Bill 119 into law; the legislation will ensnare the entire construction sector into the web & costly chaos of the WSIB regardless of whether their employees ever work on the jobsite.

Bureaucracy and red tape costs contractors their licenses

(QUEEN’S PARK) – MPP Randy Hillier (Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington) questioned both the Minister of Consumer Services, Margaret Best, and the Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities (MTCU), Glen Murray, in the Legislature today about bureaucratic confusion and incompetence in their Ministries that will result in a significant number of electrical contractors across Ontario losing their license to work.

Students and bus operators Screw-Ged by Tri-Board Transport

(PERTH) – MPP Randy Hillier (Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington) expressed his concern over the political correctness being practiced by the Tri-Board Student Transportation Services.

Auditor General Confirms that Ontario Government is Broken

QUEEN’S PARK-- Randy Hillier, MPP for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington, applauds Auditor General Jim McCarter for his condemnation of the current McGuinty Government. The Auditor General tabled his 2011 Annual Report today, which revealed that of the ten government programs he audited over the past year, each demonstrated that the government is broken.

CP Hospital redevelopment:  A maze of political delays

PERTH – MPP Randy Hillier (Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington) rose today in the Legislature to condemn the perpetual maze that has trapped the Carleton Place and District Memorial Hospital’s efforts for redevelopment since 2003.

Randy Hillier helps launch Changebook

(PERTH, ON) On Sunday May 29th, Randy Hillier, MPP for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington, and the Ontario PC Caucus launched changebook , their plan to provide respect and relief for Ontario families. Many of the key elements featured in changebook are policies that Hillier has spearheaded over his past four years serving as the MPP for LFL&A.

Liberals Force $125 Work Tax on Ontario Tradesmen

Bringing Justice & Oversight Back Into the Legal System

(PERTH, ON) Randy Hillier, MPP for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington has tabled two new Private Member Bills that restore justice, oversight and people’s rightful role in Ontario’s legal system.

Relief for Families on Home Hydro and Heating Bills

(QUEEN”S PARK)—Today, Tim Hudak and the PC Caucus, including Lanark, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington MPP Randy Hillier, announced that after years of failed Liberal hydro experiments, a PC government would remove the provincial portion of the HST from hydro bills.

How Much More Will Families in Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington have to pay?

Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington — Today, Ontario PC Energy Critic John Yakabuski and MPP Randy Hillier called on Dalton McGuinty to tell Ontario families how much more they will have to pay on their hydro bills for his expensive energy experiments.

Dangerous Precedent Set with Same-Sex Marriage Ruling

Carleton Place – Local MP Scott Reid and MPP Randy Hillier are disappointed with the Court of the Queen’s Bench in Saskatchewan which ruled on Monday that civil servants can be forced to perform duties that contravene the principles of their conscience.

McGuinty Bureaucrats at the Trough

(QUEEN’S PARK) Today, Randy Hillier, MPP for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington and the PC Caucus has found that despite Dalton McGuinty’s blustery talk of fiscal restraint, his government has done nothing to rein in public spending. Documentation obtained by the PC Caucus has shown public sector executives routinely violating the government salary cap laid out by the McGuinty Liberals.

McGuinty Liberals to Give Away $30 Million to Foreign Students

(QUEEN’S PARK) Yesterday, Dalton McGuinty announced that the Government of Ontario will be giving away $30 million of taxpayer’s money to set up a scholarship fund for foreign students. The scholarship fund will provide foreign students with $40,000 per year in an attempt to lure them to Ontario.

Randy Hillier Motions for the Return of Grand Juries

(QUEEN'S PARK) Randy Hillier, MPP for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington today tabled a motion calling for the return of Grand Juries in the province of Ontario. The motion, inspired by the Royal Commission, Inquiry in to Civil Rights, is one of a number of amendments to the judicial system that Mr. Hillier will be tabling over the coming months.

Smart Meters are Tax Machines

(QUEEN'S PARK) The McGuinty Liberal government today once again proved that they have next to no knowledge of the impacts that their “green energy” boondoggle is having on regular Ontario Families. Ontario citizens, having been forced to pay an additional 8% HST on their hydro bill, are facing a 40% Hydro rate hike over the course of the next several years.

McGuinty’s Secret & Contemptible Eco-Fees

(PERTH) Randy Hillier, MPP for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington today denounced the McGuinty Government’s underhanded introduction of eco-fees through Stewardship Ontario, another arms-length government agency.

Bernie Madoff would applaud McGuinty’s Micro-FIT Scheme

(QUEEN'S PARK) Randy Hillier, MPP for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington spoke out today about McGuinty Liberal’s recent decision to arbitrarily break the terms of the Green Energy Act and the Micro-FIT program, which had promised guaranteed energy prices for small and residential green energy producers.

MNR Ruminates on Elk Problem

(QUEEN'S PARK) Randy Hillier, MPP for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington spoke out in the Legislature today on the government’s longstanding failure to solve the problem of nuisance elk near Bancroft, ON.

Randy Hillier Introduces New Labour Legislation to Protect Worker’s Rights

(QUEEN'S PARK) Randy Hillier today tabled his labour private member’s bill, the Defending Employee’s Rights Act.

Lack of OSPCA Accountability Creates Victims - Turtles Spared this time

(QUEEN’S PARK)- MPP Randy Hillier (Lanark, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington) expressed his dismay over recent events at a Newmarket SPCA shelter, and his ongoing concern over the lack of accountability provided to the OSPCA by the passing last year of Bill 50.