Protect taxpayers from any new taxes or increases in the upcoming budget
Liberal-NDP Coalition Vote Down Legislation to Protect Taxpayers
(QUEEN'S PARK) - Randy Hillier, MPP for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington, expressed his significant disappointment that the Liberal-NDP coalition voted together once again to defeat his legislation that would have protected taxpayers from any new taxes or increases in the upcoming budget.
"The new Premier and her new Government had a chance to distance themselves from the tax and spend legacy of Dalton McGuinty," said Hillier. "Yet they found a new way, with help from the NDP, to further ensure that they could increase taxes in the upcoming budget."
Hillier's Private Members Bill to strengthen the Taxpayer Protection Act, would have forced the Wynne-Horwath coalition to face a referendum before they could introduce any new taxes in the upcoming budget. In 1999, the Harris Government introduced the Taxpayer Protection Act requiring that new taxes be put up to the public through a referendum. Using a not-withstanding clause, the McGuinty Liberal Government was able to ignore the Act and introduce new taxes or raise existing ones.
In what is surely insight to the upcoming budget, the NDP and the Liberal's joined forces to defeat the Taxpayer Protection Amendment Act by a vote of 54-35. By preventing this legislation from passing, the Wynne-Horwath coalition have cleared any obstacle for them to introduce another tax in this years upcoming budget.
"It is beyond hypocritical that on the same day the NDP voted in favour of their own motion for referendums on new casinos, that they think the government doesn't need the public's mandate when it comes to taxes," said Hillier. "I believe that when it comes to taxes, we are talking about the public's own money and that they should always have the final say."
Randy Hillier -- Bio and
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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.”
