The Ontario PC Caucus today unanimously walked out of Question Period to protest the McGuinty Government’s attempt to ram through their record-breaking HST tax grab without first allowing for public consultations throughout Ontario.
Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak is currently doing the job that Dalton McGuinty should be doing by traveling throughout Ontario to hear the concerns of the middle class families, seniors and small businesses who have the most to lose from Dalton McGuinty’s $3 billion HST tax grab.
QUOTES“This government has become trapped in a bubble of special interests and completely cut itself off from the vulnerable Ontario families who will be hurt the most by the HST. We cannot, in good conscience, legitimize their attempt to escape accountability”
-- Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak
“Dalton McGuinty promised not to increase taxes. He broke that promise. He said that he believes in public hearings, but apparently he only believes in them when it suits him. Dalton McGuinty is going to seriously hurt the people of Ontario with his HST – he needs to allow public hearings, so that he can tell people why.”
-- Randy Hillier, MPP
“Once upon a time Dalton McGuinty claimed that public hearings were an example of high democratic principle. By isolating himself from the public, he is proving that he is not the same guy people thought they were voting for six years ago.”
-- Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak
QUICK FACTS
Dalton McGuinty on Public Hearings (Hansard, December 6, 1999)
"Public hearings; those two words go together nicely if you believe in true democracy.”
CONTACT:
Nicholas Kadysh
Office of Randy Hillier, MPP
Nick.kadysh@pc.ola.org
416-325-2244
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.”
