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QUEEN’S PARK – The Ontario PC Caucus will use their first opportunity on Monday to introduce an amendment to the 2010 Budget Motion condemning the McGuinty Liberals for refusing to protect taxpayers from being forced to pay $25 million in severance to HST tax collectors who will not be losing their jobs.
Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak today released the text of the Ontario PC Budget Motion amendment. Yesterday, Hudak released text of a PC amendment to the Budget Bill that would prevent HST tax collectors from receiving up to $45,000 each in severance despite the fact that they will not be missing a day of work.
The Ontario PC Caucus will continue to use every legislative tool at their disposal, including Opposition Day Motions, Question Period, and Private Members business to protect seniors, families and taxpayers from paying this outrageous and undeserved severance.
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– Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak
– Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak
Quick Facts
The Ontario PC Caucus has the prerogative of moving an amendment to the main Budget Motion. This amendment is, by convention, a confidence measure. This amendment will be introduced on Monday.
The Ontario PC Caucus will also have the opportunity to move a substantive amendment to the Budget Bill itself. The Ontario PC Budget Bill amendment will close the loophole in the Comprehensive Integrated Tax Coordination Agreement that allows Dalton McGuinty to pay $45,000 in severance to HST collectors under the Public Service of Ontario Act, 2006.
