(QUEEN’S PARK) – MPP Randy Hillier (Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington) expressed his concern over the prorogation of the Provincial Legislature as McGuinty exits stage left.
“In the face of overwhelming evidence of contempt, and finding himself buried under scandal after scandal of his own making, that the Premier would make a sudden and hasty exit from the public stage should not come as too much of a surprise, I suppose,” remarked Hillier. “What I find disappointing is that he would lock the door on his way out, stopping all work at the Legislature and preventing the Legislature from properly addressing the mess that he and his administration has created.”
“The entire Liberal administration is at fault for the billions of dollars we have seen wasted on eHealth, ORNGE, and most recently the seat-saving powerplant debacle; McGuinty’s resignation does nothing to absolve the rest of the Liberal Party of accountability and responsibility.”
The Liberal Party will elect a new leader in the coming months, who will step in to the Premier’s job probably sometime next year.
“The director may have left the show, but the cast remains, and under a new director I am confident we’ll be watching the same reruns of scandal and contempt,” said Hillier. “What Ontario really needs is a complete rewrite of the script.”
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.”
