News from the Campaign of Ontario’s Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne
Math 10th, 2014 –Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals have released a “sneak preview” of a 30-second television ad that will start running on May 21.
The Ontario Liberal’s Finance Minister Charles Sousa
Today is the fourth day of a provincial election triggered by Andrea Horwath and the NDP when they rejected the 2014 Budget. Liberal Finance Minister and candidate for Mississauga South Charles Sousa showcased an ad in which Premier Kathleen Wynne questions the NDP’s decision to put her clear plan to support families and create jobs at risk.
In accordance with election rules, the commercial will not run in any paid media until midnight on May 21, when the Elections Ontario advertising blackout ends. Until then, Ontarians are invited to visit kathleenwynne.ca to view the sneak preview of the ad.
The ad highlights the job-creating initiatives, supports for families, and transit projects contained in the 2014 Budget that Andrea Horwath and the NDP rejected, including:
Help for families with an indexed increase to the Ontario Child Benefit.
Creating the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan to give people the comfortable, secure retirement they deserve
An achievable plan to invest in roads, bridges and transit to make everyday life easier and grow the economy.
A 2.5 billion dollar plan to create new jobs by partnering with business.
The hasty, behind-closed-doors decision by Andrea Horwath and the NDP to plunge Ontario into an election means the Liberal Budget and Premier Kathleen Wynne’s clear, achievable plan for jobs, transit and secure pensions is on hold. Andrea Horwath’s decision not to support the Budget and force this election is particularly puzzling given that the NDP have no realistic plan of their own. The reckless actions of Andrea Horwath’s NDP just don’t make any sense.
In rejecting the Budget, Horwath, who often claims to represent the “real” people of Ontario, is choosing politics over progress and partisanship over partnership.
QUOTE
“The reckless actions of Andrea Horwath’s NDP just don’t make any sense. Why have the NDP plunged Ontario into an election over our plan to create jobs, build transit and secure pensions if they have no plan of their own to offer voters? Ontarians have every right to ask: Is Andrea Horwath for real?”
— Charles Sousa, Finance Minister and candidate for Mississauga South
QUICK FACTS
Premier Kathleen Wynne’s 2014 Budget included plans to help middle and low income families by increasing the Ontario Child Benefit to $1,310 per child in 2014, and ensuring families receive annual increases at the rate of inflation.
The 2014 Ontario Budget provided for an average $1 per hour wage increase in 2015 and a further average $1 per hour wage increase in 2016 for early childhood educators.
Ontario Liberals are proposing to give personal support workers in the publicly funded home and community care sector a $4 per hour wage increase over the next three years.
The 2014 Budget not supported by Andrea Horwath’s NDP would have created the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan that could roughly double the retirement benefits Ontarians receive from the Canada Pension Plan.
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“The 2014 Budget not supported by Andrea Horwath’s NDP would have created the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan that could roughly double the retirement benefits Ontarians receive from the Canada Pension Plan.”
– That’s if the Liberals didn’t squander the pension money first in another scandal down the road…
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I’ve been an admitted political junkie for years. Everyone is “going to create jobs”—all the parties. Sure they are. Hudak says 1 million over 8 years, reminds me of Marilyn Darte promising when she ran for mayor years ago, that she would ‘drive $25 million into the city in the next year”. Where do these people get their figures? Ah, yes. Thin Air. That’s it. And it goes for all of them. We are truly screwed, folks.
Today’s Standard talks about losing 60 more jobs at a bio company, Brock is bleeding staff to face their debt. GM essentially gone. We drove by Port Weller Docks today and it is shuttered. The whole lot for sale. Just years ago, MP Dykstra was crowing about driving jobs there.
We are in deep trouble, folks, whoever we choose to believe. Or not. The only thing I can hope for is that people will vote, will raise the percentage rate above 30 something. Listened to CBC radio news a couple of days ago and people in Toronto were asked if they knew the names of the three main party leaders or had even heard of them. Over a dozen interviewed, and only one man knew a thing. Sad.
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These people, the Sousas, the Wynnes, the Matthews “NOW” attempt to come across as the crusaders for the people and they are good at this as they should have been relegated to the back benches during the last election, but some how they got enough votes to form a government, a minority one that is. They, the Liberal Cabinet Ministers thought the knew everything or was it the voice of CONSULTANTS coming from the mouths? All in all they were guilty of MALFEASANCE in its gravest form, mismanagement.
The Hudak entourage “STILL” smells blood and though he screwed up during the last election when he at one time was “LEADING” in the pools. He still wants to bring the “TEA PARTY” agenda into the lives of the peoples of Ontario.
We had this during the Harris/Hudak Years when the Corporate taxes reach a low point (they are the lowest of the G7) Educational institutions were allowed to go into disarray for maintenance needs, Hospital closures were rampant through out Ontario and the restructuring of the Hospital Systems in to area units like the NHS
completely eliminated systems that had function almost perfectly for generations.
The NDP and Howrath supported the Liberal regime, getting promises in return, promises the Liberals really did not want to fulfill.and once again promises and more promises that will cost the taxpayers not the MPPs. Maybe she should have put this party out of office a long time ago, BUT… the result would have been a scorched earth agenda of Hudak and the goon squad. Yes!!!! NOW was the time to dump them into the dismal history of the God awful governments and get on with life and living…with the hope if the Conservatives do get in ….It will be hopefully a minority Government.
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Allow me to appear nannyish here. I was for over 30 years an underpaid, but professional reference/information librarian. The graduate degree is a not just as ‘librarian’, but ‘information science’, not the kind of stereotype that people think of as librarians…. little ladies who love to shelve books and read stories to children. No. Surprised?
So on this site, in the past I have flogged Non-fiction books (use your kindle, e-books whatever) on politics, including ‘Harpers Team’. …’Armageddon’. I am looking forward to getting Paul Well’s recent book “If I .. were PM”. At the moment I have the new book out by the Samara Institute, Allison Loat (St. C. ‘girl’ BTW) and co author, re their exit interviews with All MP’s (whatever the stripe). They have been on TV, radio and the book is fascinating…. completely non-partisan as they cover everyone who has been an MP in the last twenty odd years, That is right. Everyone. Look it up and you will see that no matter what party affiliation, whatever your political thinking, partisanship, everyone is so disappointed in how they were nominated, misled by their masters, left to dry out in the cold, given no help at all. All parties, OK. Across the Board.
Please take the time to look up this book. If you do not have a library card, they are free, wherever you might live.
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