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.
“The Auditor General’s report today demonstrates to me that not only is the Ontario treasury broke with a quarter trillion dollar debt, but the implementation of all programs are significantly broken,” said Hillier. “The report is a damning account of how broken our current government really under Premier McGuinty, this is his report card and he scored a perfect zero out of ten.”
In the 2011 report, the Auditor General revealed that Ontario pays the highest auto insurance premiums in the Country yet the government does nothing to prevent fraud or exorbitant injury claims.
The Auditor General also found that no study was done to evaluate the Liberals’ renewable energy policy. The Auditor General also warned that while the Liberals may be creating some temporary jobs, their expensive energy experiments are killing thousands more permanent private-sector jobs in the broader economy.
“We pay too much for auto insurance, yet the government is inactive - we could be paying less at the LCBO but we are not - we have paid off the Debt Retirement Charge on our hydro bills yet the government continues to charge us,” said Hillier. “Today’s report showed us that every aspect of this government is in disarray and yet this current government has no will to fix our broken system”
Randy Hillier, MPP Lanark Frontenac Lennox, is a co-founder of the Lanark Landowners Association, which was brought to life to address government imposition on the rights of private property owners, and to address the regressive regulatory impositions that government was bringing down upon farmers and business owners in rural Ontario.
In 2006, Randy resigned as President of the OLA in order to run as a candidate for the Progressive Conservatives. Randy was elected in the 2007 provincial election.
Randy a long-time resident of Lanark County, an electrician by trade and member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), continues to co-publish and edit rural Ontario’s successful magazine “The Landowner.”
