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Ontario Election 2011
Ross Ayotte: Premier Dud's broken promises
A vote for the McGuinty Ontario Liberals is a vote for higher taxes, higher fees and higher hydro rates, and there will be a huge increase in all of the above to pay for his grandiose campaign promises if re-elected and one thing we all know is there will be more broken promises, scandals and 'Premier Dud's' Liberal friends getting richer.
McGuinty has made a lot of promises to the people of Ontario since 2003 - promises still not kept.
Here's a list of some of those broken promises:
- In Health Care, McGuinty promised to:
- Fund medically-necessary health care services (but he de-listed eye exams, chiropractic care and physiotherapy)
- Unclog Emergency Rooms
- Provide autism treatment beyond age 6
- Provide better mental health care
- Hire 8,000 nurses
- Cancel P3 hospitals in Brampton
- Spend 'every penny' of the new health tax on health care, and
- Close 'private' MRI and CT clinics
- For the Environment, McGuinty promised to:
- Meet 3/4 of Ontario's share of the Kyoto commitments
- Divert 60% of municipal garbage to recycling by 2005
- Ban organics waste in our landfills
- Give the Ministry of Natural Resources the resources to protect fish and wildlife
- Close coal-fired electricity plants by 2007, and
- Eliminate mercury emissions from coal-fired electric power generation plants by 2010
- In Education, McGuinty promised to:
- Establish a standing committee on Education to hold yearly hearings
- Ensure 75% of students meet or exceed the provincial standard on province-wide tests within the first mandate
- Set a hard cap of 20 students for early grades
- Provide a new funding formula for rural and northern schools, and
- Stop school closings
- In Infrastructure, McGuinty promised to:
- Provide a Seamless Transportation Network across the GTA
- Stop 6,600 houses from being built on the Oak Ridges Moraine, and
- Build 20,000 new affordable housing units
- In terms of Managing Taxpayer Dollars, McGuinty promised to:
- End Federal Child Tax Credit clawbacks
- Not raise taxes
- Stop the waste of taxpayers' dollars
- Balance the budget every year of their mandate
- Not add to the province's debt
- "Give you the power over the role of money in politics, by asking you to set strict limits on the amounts political parties can raise and spend."
- Give taxpayers better value for money while keeping taxes down, and
- Abide by the balanced budget law
- Regarding Responsible Government, McGuinty promised to:
- Allow all non-cabinet MPPs to criticize and vote against government legislation
- Govern with honesty and integrity
- Operate an open and transparent government, and
- Reduce the use of private consultants
- In other areas, McGuinty promised to:
- Create tens of thousands of new child care spaces
- Make the Ministry of Agriculture a lead ministry
- Implement all of Justice O'Connor's Recommendations
- Provide 35,000 Housing Allowances
- Repeal the Tenant Protection Act within one year
- Provide legal rights to victims of crime
- Cap hydro rates at 4.3 cents per kilowatt hour until 2006
- Require trades and professions to accept qualified immigrants within one year
- Eliminate barriers to foreign-trained professionals within one year, and
- Establish a public inquiry into meat inspections
All of the above commitments to Ontario voters have been broken since Dalton McGuinty became Premier of Ontario.
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