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"The creation of more red tape, regulation, inspection, and increasing the number of bureaucrats is not economic growth, that’s economic bloat"

Co-Opting Green, is a Bad Liberal Dream



(Perth) – The overwhelming negative response coming into the community office indicated to MPP Randy Hillier that a new nightmare is beginning again under the McGuinty Government. The Government’s introduction of Bill 150, Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 deepens the socialist chasm and signals another intrusion into Ontario’s economy.

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“This is McGuinty’s mean and green energy dream,” Hillier commented, “and its rural Ontario’s nightmare.” With the implementation of the Green Energy Act, Hillier predicts an explosion in bureaucracy, red tape, and regulation while placing a heavy hand of intrusion into the lives of rural citizens. “McGuinty’s new green police will be given unprecedented powers and access over our businesses, homes and municipal government under the green camouflage of consultation,” Hillier added. “We all know that ‘consultation’ is not McGuinty’s track record, it’s dictating the latest greatest nanny state green fad on unsuspecting residents and municipalities.” Bill 150 proposes:
  • To override municipal authority, planning and by-law powers
  • Creates a new green energy police with powers of entry to test, inspect and maintain appliances, with violators fined up to $25,000
  • Mandatory and costly home energy auditors and management plans
  • To create a new bureaucracy on top of the existing seven provincial energy departments
Hillier recognized during questioning in the Legislature that the Minister of Energy noted that Ontario’s economy moves at a snail’s pace due to bureaucracy and red tape. “The creation of more red tape, regulation, inspection, and increasing the number of bureaucrats is not economic growth, that’s economic bloat,” Hillier noted. “The fact that the Minister himself is not prepared to set targets, causes me to believe that the intrusion of this Act could be limitless. History has proven, this Government knows no limits when it comes to growing government and wasting taxpayer’s money,” Hillier concluded.


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Randy Hillier -- Bio and Archives

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.”


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