War on Business

McGuinty is anti-business

What did McGuinty’s government do that is anti-business?

  

Some of our Liberal MPPs recently sent out a beautifully and professionally designed piece of election puff material disguised as a community newsletter on expensive, glossy paper in full colour. The pamphlet pretty well admits that the McGuinty government didn’t deliver what it promised. And we paid for this election material.

McGuinty’s claims to support jobs – but he is anti-business

The ‘newsletter’ claims that McGuinty’s Liberal government supports jobs and growth, while actually being anti-business. According to our Ontario treasurer Dwight Duncan, Ontario has lost 3½ per cent of its manufacturing jobs every year for the past seven years! (That’s a total of 289,000 jobs lost). At this rate there won’t be many manufacturing jobs left in Ontario by 2030. Where is that job creation they are bragging about? And while under the McGuinty government, spending has gone up 80%, the middle class, the people who create jobs, have disappeared from Toronto according to the Globe and Mail. In addition to all the tax hikes and miscellaneous other extra fees our hydro bills have skyrocketed.

McGuinty’s promise that the HST will create 594,000 jobs

Before the introduction of the HST, Dalton McGuinty promised that the HST would create 594,000 jobs, but now their election pamphlet claims only 116,000 jobs gained in Ontario. And they don’t say how many of those were the result of the HST. I have a sneaky suspicion that the 594,000 jobs McGuinty promised were created in China, not in Ontario, otherwise they would have bragged about them in their pamphlet.

The Provincial Government has raised the minimum wage

which has increased unemployment and stifled the progress of your business (especially for restaurants) because you can’t afford to hire as many new employees. Slightly lower wages would enable many employers to hire more people especially those without skills. Yes, some people would earn a bit less, but we’d have a lot more people working.

New Statutory Holiday – the Family Holiday

The new Family holiday McGuinty introduced to grab more votes, was well received by most, after all who wouldn’t like to work less? But for businesses the Family day is like an extra tax on business because you have to pay your employees for an extra day they don’t work while suffering the loss of income for that day. That’s a double whammy hitting 1000’s  of already ailing businesses. This holiday should be abolished.

The Provincial Government passed a Green Energy Act

This act already drastically increased our hydro bills and will increase them much more, which is a great burden to businesses that use lots of hydro power (see ‘Going Green’). Hydro bills are expected to triple, effectively forcing many businesses to look for greener pastures. McGuinty’s 10% rebate doesn’t fool anybody, it’s just a cheap election gimmick.

Nice going Mr. McGuinty. I hope your liberal government gets turfed out of office in October 6. We cannot afford you anymore!

References:

Wind power the worst kind of mirage - Henk Tennekes, Financial Post - March 03, 2010

McGuinty's ill wind blows across Canada - Lorrie Goldstein, Sr. Associate Editor – Toronto Sun – March 18, 2010

Doubts hit Ontario’s green energy plan - Lee Greenberg - Postmedia News • Feb. 6, 2011

Five steps to lower hydro bills — and votes Andy Frame – Toronto Star – Mar 2, 2011

Denmark has seen Ontario's future - Lorrie Goldstein – Toronto Sun - April 10, 2011

What price green energy? - George Jonas - National Post • Apr. 27, 2011

Our carbon catastrophe begins Lorrie Goldstein – Toronto Sun - May 9, 2011

Green Energy - In Ontario, gloomy skies for solar power - Renata D’Aliesio – Globe and Mail, August 10, 2011 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/in-ontario-gloomy-skies-for-solar-power/article2125904/