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$200 million in savings in two easy steps- Funding for Leaside rink takes centre ice
A makeover for our green spaces 
Public opinion sought on video advertising
Dangerous drivers curbed in Thornhill
Creating a better Vaughan for the future
Creating civic pride in Richmond Hill
Plant a tree — with the town’s help
Reflecting on the past, looking to the future
Difficult summer for North York residents
What about our hospital?
Is proposed Vaughan centre no longer moving ahead?
PETER SHURMAN Thornhill MPP
ON TOP OF presiding over Ontario’s slide down to “have-not” status, Dalton McGuinty has secured his place in Ontario history by adding the largest deficit ever to the largest tax hike ever.
The months ahead will be filled with unpleasant surprises, Ontarians begin to realize how much more they will be paying for everyday goods and services. You will pay more every time you fill up your car, more for your cable, Internet and cell phone service.
Like the last five Liberal budgets, this one is full of promises. But what are Dalton McGuinty’s promises worth?
There have been talks about building a new hospital in Vaughan, but it is not even on their radar. For residents in Thornhill, you have to drive in to Toronto or up to Richmond Hill, Newmarket or Markham-Stouffville just to go to a hospital. All these promises are “out there,” but there’s nothing
backing them up.
He promised no tax increases and then delivered the largest tax increase in Ontario history. He loudly and repeatedly promised parents full-day junior and senior kindergarten. That promise has been quietly dropped. He promised commuters a multi-billion-dollar plan for transit through the so-called 2020 plan. That plan has apparently evaporated.
Dalton McGuinty has destroyed Ontario’s competitive advantage with high taxes and red tape. In Thornhill alone, we have lost more than 3,000 jobs in this recession and they are not coming back.
At a time when the government should be making it easier for Ontarians to support themselves, Dalton McGuinty and his Liberals decided to increase the cost of living and make our province a liability for our children and grandchildren instead of the asset that it should and can be.
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