Dalton McGuinty’s blustery talk of fiscal restraint, “It’s remarkable. Dalton McGuinty sets rules, touts them in the media, and then promptly ignores them”
(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.
“The senior public sector has become nothing but a pork yard, with Liberal-friendly consultants and bureaucrats enjoying a feeding frenzy of taxpayers’ money,” said Mr. Hillier. “In the middle of a recession, not only is Dalton McGuinty not looking out for the needs of the taxpayer, he apparently can’t even be bothered to enforce his own rules. This government has gone wildly off the rails.”
25 Deputy Ministers, 23 Assistant Deputy Ministers, and 319 Directors in the Ontario Public Service receive more than their respective salary ceilings. If Dalton McGuinty actually respected the salary ceiling for Deputy Minister’s, ADMs, and Directors alone he would save at least $7.7 million.
“It’s remarkable. Dalton McGuinty sets rules, touts them in the media, and then promptly ignores them,” said Hillier. “This government, and this premier, are simply unable to curb their spending. They would rather families go on suffering than cut even one pet project.”
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.”
