News from Ontario’s Conservative Leader Patrick Brown
Queen’s Park, Ontario, October 27th, 2015 – Today during Question Period, Leader of the Official Opposition Patrick Brown asked Acting Premier Deb Matthews about the government’s payments to teachers’ unions.
Ontario Conservative Patrick Brown demanding answers on provincial government’s millions of dollars of payouts to teachers unions and unions’ spending on Liberal election campaigns.
Over the past three provincial election campaigns, teachers’ unions spent more than $6.5 million to run negative ad campaigns and donated nearly $800,000 to the Liberals over the past decade.
The Globe and Mail has alleged that the government didn’t need receipts for its payments to teachers’ unions because the payments weren’t covering negotiating costs. This represents yet another growing scandal of Ontario’s Liberal Government for which Ontario’s taxpayers have had to foot the bill.
“When the gas plant scandal broke, the government said it only cost $40 million,” said Leader Patrick Brown. “Yet when secret documents became public, that number exploded to one billion dollars. When this latest scandal broke last week, one million became $2.5 million on Friday, and has now grown to over $7 million.”
Taxpayers and Ontario’s education professionals deserve to know from where in the education budget and Ontario’s classrooms were the millions of dollars diverted.
“The public is outraged that their education dollars are being abused. Teachers are paying for classroom supplies out of their own pockets,” Leader Patrick Brown added. “Parents are fundraising for school trips because they’re being told the cupboard is bare. It’s wrong and this Liberal Government knows it.”
Brown concluded, “When will this government apologize to the people of Ontario for funneling dollars out of the classroom for their own political purposes?”
(A Niagara At Large footnote – Along with what Ontario’s opposition Conservative Party has changed in the above release, it has also now called for the province’s Auditor General to investigate the millions of dollars in secret payments Kathleen Wynne’s Liberal government has paid out to teachers unions to cover their contract bargaining costs.)
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What is the difference between Wynne and Harper? Harper is no longer in power to destroy Canada! Hopefully the voters of Ontario will give the “boot” to Wynne at election time. Harris did his best to make teaching a business rather than a learning environment. McGuinty and Wynne continued/continue to erode student learning experiences. Wynne may look to the EQAO results and claim that scores are better – this is possible only by fudging the scores. Wynne should scrap EQAO testing and allow the students to learn rather than prepare for fudged test results. Teachers may even have time to teach cursive writing!
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In my opinion this Ontario Provincial Liberal Government has to be the most dishonest, corrupt and treacherous group ever to be elected in the Province of Ontario and their beat continues to go on and on…..One scandal after another.
Thus also in my opinion is it any wonder this province is NOW a have NOT province and sinking further and further into the quagmire of slime and decay perpetuated by payout and payoff to agents of this government?
This Liberal Government was elected out of fear generated by successive Provincial Conservatives whose claim to fame is not in what they accomplished but in their agenda of “CUTTING and SLASHING” all the hard fought for Social programs that were established by our forefathers while fattening the pots of the Corporate sector….And Why???
Now I read and hear of the Liberal infamy and where does it come from but the very Conservatives of a few years ago.
In the past few years I have grown weary of the ineptness of the leadership of the Ontario Provincial NDP, their inability to foster an alternative to these two ship wreck corporate parties and the deafening silence as so many good people were sacrificed by the total lack of a viable platform formulated to bring Ontario out of the doldrums of despair.
Maybe I am just tired and too old??? But I do care about the future and this is why I write.
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“The Globe and Mail has alleged that the government didn’t need receipts for its payments to teachers’ unions because the payments weren’t covering negotiating costs.” I’m confused. I thought that these payments WERE to cover costs incurred due to a new negotiating system that extended the bargaining period? What am I missing?
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