A Submission from the Office of Ontario Conservative Leader Tim Hudak
QUEEN’S PARK, January 28, 2013 – The Ontario PCs are ready to get down to work and take immediate steps to fix the most serious jobs and government debt crisis of our lifetime – and hope the incoming Premier is ready to do same, Leader Tim Hudak said today.
Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak
“Facing the risk of another credit downgrade and more than half a million unemployed, Ontario needs urgent action,” Hudak said. “The challenges we confront today are the same as they were yesterday, and are the same as they will be tomorrow – and every day until we start to put Ontario on the right track.
“At a time when Ontarians are looking to their government for new ideas, I am concerned that the first 48 hours under the incoming Premier sound a lot like the last decade under Dalton McGuinty. Ontario is on the wrong path and we need to take action – starting today.”
Hudak added Ontario cannot afford another three weeks’ delay: “There is no need to wait for the House to be recalled to take action to pay down our debt, or reverse course on policies that chased jobs out of our province.”
For the past year, the Ontario PCs have put forward an integrated approach for jobs and the economy through a series of Paths to Prosperity discussion papers, Hudak noted. “It’s time to see the same sense of urgency from the Liberal government.
“I am troubled by Kathleen Wynne’s comment that she wants to continue Dalton McGuinty’s legacy, because that will keep Ontario moving in the wrong direction,” Hudak concluded. “I remain optimistic that this Premier will recognize the deep financial hole Ontario is in, because we can no longer afford a business-as-usual approach from this government.”
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The Liberals have chosen a new leader 18 months too late I think the Liberals have handed off a shattered party to Miss Wynn, and just like Kim Campbell of Brian Mulroney era, the new Premier is destined for the trash heap of history. The only person who will benefit is Andrea Howarth. Tim Hudak will not make it, his platform is not centrist and is too much like Mike Harris redux.
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While I have to agree with Hudak about the troubling idea of Wynne continuing the McGuinty legacy, I am also concerned about Hudak continuing the Harris legacy!
Yes, Ontario is facing serious economic issues. But Hudak’s ideas smack of the early days of the industrial revolution – or third-world sweat shops.
No thanks Tim!
When, in the name of all that is holy, will Ontario and Canada find leaders who actually care about people? And don’t start spouting that the NDP have a lock on that. The NDP, as Bob Rae so clearly proved, is far too beholden to small interest groups – not to the overall populace.
I guess I am just an old white guy, who is tired of being called a racist because I disagree with Idle No More and with immigrants who demand that Canada adapt to them, rather than them adapting to Canada. I am an old white guy who is tired of seeing the country he loves going down the tubes because politicians are too busy trying to score their ideological points, rather than doing what is right – for the country and its people. I am an old white guy who is so fed up with all the BS, I am ready to scream!
I am as mad as hell and I am not going to take it any more!
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While Jardine and Mackenzie and I would likely disagree on many points, I think we agree that Hudak is not on. An Ambitious man, certainly, married to Deb, Mike Harris’s Exec. Ass./whatever. Not a new idea in that little ol’ head at all.
Harris’s term was nothing but Let’s Download everything to the local municipalities, and let’s amalgamate as many as possible into one hulking local…. causing wage raises upon all unionized employees in those disperse municipalities (oh, gee, never thought that local collective agreements might have huge wage level issues, oh goodness) to an upper level. No Cost Savings there at all. Idiots.
Just think for one minute here. Do you think that police/firefighters/librarians who had collective agreements negotiated in the GTA, let alone Chatham-Kent, or any other amalgamated Municipality under Harris had the same salarly levels, and they would all agree to the lowest common denominator? Really. Dream on.
So, is Wynne better? I don’t have a clue, and I would bet few of you would either.
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Finally, the Ontario Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, is admitting that the liberals made a mistake by rushing the decision to end the Slots at Racetrack program. Instead of offering this already known fact why doesn’t the minister explain to the citizens of Ontario about the grave impact that this mistake has already made? Maybe he should try to explain about this to all of those ex-employees and their families of the Ontario Slots in Windsor, Fort Erie and Sarnia.
To add insult to injury the member from the opposition party suddenly claims that he cares about the urban communities of Ontario. If this is true where was he when the Slots at the Racetrack in his own home town closed? Where was this person the day that it was announced? Where was he when the people of the community tried to save their livelihood? Why is it that after all these months he suddenly says he cares?
Is it so far out of our reach to take this whole situation as a lesson to be remembered. Shall we take the word of someone who said they made a mistake or do we put our trust in someone who relies on suddenly saying that he cares. Like the person before me, I don’t have a clue!
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When it came to preserving jobs in the rural areas, the decision to close the slots was a lot like , pouring gasoline on to an economy that was already in trouble, Dalton McGuinty has set fire to our jobs and future,The thing is that the OLG still made a Billion dollars a year from the slots even during the worst meltdown of the economy since the depression.Dalton in my opinion is a lame brain,he makes Bob Rae look good,. in retrospect and that is saying something.
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