During Question Period today, Rob Leone, MPP for Cambridge shed light on robocalls that are being sent out by the Liberal Government regarding a possible election and the fate of the Cambridge Memorial Hospital expansion project.

 “The Ontario Liberals demonstrated to Cambridge that they are the party that wants an election campaign. Rather than promoting their budget using facts, the Liberals rattled their election sabre and instead resorted to distractions, scare tactics and misleading robocalls,” said Leone.

 “The facts are these: I am voting against the budget but I am not voting in favour of an election. I am voting against the budget because there is no jobs plan in this document”, said Leone. “It does nothing to steer us away from a looming $30 billion deficit. Spending goes up, not down, and the deficit is now higher than those of all other provinces combined.”

“Hospitals are the largest and most important provincial institution in most communities. To hold the Cambridge Memorial Hospital expansion hostage from our community in an effort to play political games, further demonstrates that Dalton McGuinty does not grasp the scale of problems Ontario faces,” added Leone. “Rather than focusing on the jobs and economic crisis, he focuses his time on inaccurate and misleading robocalls.”

Since day one, Leone has been an advocate for Cambridge Memorial Hospital. Leone introduced a Private Member’s resolution regarding Cambridge Memorial Hospital and the Legislature successfully passed the resolution. In the resolution, Leone asked the Liberal Government to table a detailed plan for Cambridge Memorial Hospital and other hospital expansion projects across Ontario, but the Liberals were the only party to vote against the resolution.

“On September 25th, 2011, the local Liberal campaign team issued a press release saying that the CMH expansion was ‘part of the recently passed budget – meaning the money is already committed from the province for CMH.’ To suggest that the vote for funding the Cambridge Memorial Hospital expansion is in this year’s budget means that the Liberals were either lying then or are lying now.” said Leone.

“The time for political games is over, I have always said and will continue to say that hospital funding should be based on need, not politics. I vow to all Cambridge and North Dumfries residents that I will continue to stand up against the Liberals fear tactics and protect our hospital from political games,” concluded Leone.