With every passing day on the road to a gaping $30 billion deficit, it’s becoming clearer to Ontarians that Dalton McGuinty is simply stalling for time – with no ideas for digging our province out of a jobs, spending and debt crisis of his own making, Rob Leone, MPP for Cambridge said today.

“The Premier has ignored repeated warnings that hiding from tough decisions, and blaming others for his own mistakes, will just prolong the pain of the difficult choices we all need to make,” Leone said.

“We have seen him pull billions of dollars in recommendations for savings from the Drummond report with nothing to take their place to reach a balanced budget. domain server . He has thrown sandbags around pet projects with no way to pay for them.”

And the Liberals continue with an approach to governing that ignores the big picture in favour of one-off spending binges, running from scandal and treating economic basics like affordable energy as a plaything for social engineers, Leone added.

“I have been touring businesses in Cambridge and North Dumfries and I recognize that we have some phenomenal companies in our community that are facing hardships because of the McGuinty Government’s inaction on the economy.”

“Simply put, it’s plain that Dalton McGuinty has no idea what to do. So we urge him to adopt our ideas to simultaneously reduce the size and cost of government and power up private sector job creation,” said Leone.

Leone detailed the Tim Hudak PC plan to deal with both sides of Ontario’s economic ledger:

Reducing the size and cost of government:

• An immediate, mandatory public sector wage freeze
• Reforming a public sector arbitration system that awards outsized settlements regardless of taxpayers’ ability to pay
• Making Ministers personally, financially responsible for hitting fiscal targets
• Enabling competition in the delivery of government services for efficiency and innovation, and
• A top-to-bottom review of all government functions to reinvest savings in health and education

Powering up private sector job creation:

• Lower tax rates on job-creating businesses
• Flexible, responsive regulation and an end to red tape
• Apprenticeship reform to create 200,000 skilled trades jobs, and
• A plan to end unsustainable solar and wind subsidies and make electricity more affordable

“Since last fall we have pushed relentlessly for these pro-growth ideas,” Leone said. Perhaps on reflection this March Break, Dalton McGuinty will realize we were right all along.”

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