March 29th, 2011

Hudak and Savoline say Ontario Families Need Relief from Tax and Spend McGuinty Liberals

NEWS:

QUEEN’S PARK—Today, Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak and Burlington MPP Joyce Savoline, said Dalton McGuinty’s out-of-touch budget cements what the Ontario PCs have been saying all along: Dalton McGuinty can only be counted on to do two things, raise taxes and increase government spending. 

Hudak warned the spending increases in Dalton McGuinty’s pre-election budget are only one half of his typical spend-and-tax pattern. The other half will come later this year when he sheepishly promises Ontario families not to raise their taxes, with every intention of bringing in an historic tax hike following the election. We saw this pattern after the 2003 campaign when McGuinty brought in the so-called health tax, and again after the 2007 campaign when he brought in his HST and eco tax on July 1st, 2010.

Tim Hudak and the Ontario PCs stood up for Ontario families today and called for the real relief they desperately need. Only a Tim Hudak PC government will put much needed money back in the hands of Ontario families to spend on their own priorities and not the government’s.

 

QUOTES:

“If this budget was sold at your local Chapters, you would find it under ‘fiction’. Ontario families know Dalton McGuinty will say anything he thinks will help to get him re-elected. Why would anyone believe him today?”

–Tim Hudak, Ontario PC Leader

 

“After eight years it’s clear that Dalton McGuinty’s pattern of spending continues.  Under McGuinty, government spending has increased by 70 per cent at the same time the economy has grown by only 9 per cent.”

– Joyce Savoline, MPP Burlington

 

QUICK FACTS:

  • Dalton McGuinty has added more to Ontario’s debt than any other Premier, despite bringing in the largest income tax increase (the so-called health tax) and the largest sales tax increase (his HST tax grab) in Ontario’s history. 

 

  • As a result, Ontario’s debt has increased by 73 percent under Dalton McGuinty to a whopping $257 billion. He is currently on pace to double Ontario’s debt by 2012.

 

CONTACT: Joyce Savoilne | 416-325-5362