NEWS:

Ontario requires stronger democratic checks and balances in order to hold an increasingly arrogant, and out-of-touch Dalton McGuinty, accountable for his record. Today Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak committed that a PC Government will give Ontario families the tools they need to hold future Ontario governments to account.

As a first step in this process, Hudak appointed Leeds-Grenville MPP Steve Clark as the Ontario PC Caucus Critic for Democratic Reform. In his new role, Clark will engage in a broad based consultation with Ontario families about potential democratic reforms such as referenda, recalls and citizen initiatives. Clark will study best practices in other jurisdictions in Canada and around the world, including travelling to B.C. to investigate the tools being used by HST opponents in that province.

QUOTES:

– Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak

– Steve Clark, Ontario PC MPP for Leeds-Grenville and PC Critic for Democratic Reform

QUICK FACTS:

Examples of arrogant and out-of-touch behaviour from the McGuinty Liberals include:

• Dalton McGuinty breaking his promise not to raise taxes in his very first budget and then rewriting the Taxpayer Protection Act to ram the so-called ‘health’ tax through.

• Disingenuously claiming that the HST is not a tax increase in order to formally escape the Taxpayer Protection Act, only to admit that it is, in fact, a tax grab weeks later.

• Using the Green Energy Act to impose industrial wind farms on Ontario communities without their consent.

• Hiding behind the unelected, unaccountable LHINS when closing down local frontline health care services.

• Imposing sweeping bans on pesticides and dog breeds without the consent of Ontario families.