NEWS:
In their March 26 budget, the McGuinty Government promised to create 146,000 new jobs over this year and 314,000 jobs by the end of 2010-11. Today, seven months later, Statistics Canada has revealed that not only has the McGuinty Government failed to create any jobs, but an additional 32,000 jobs have, in fact, been lost since the budget was introduced.
In October 2009, Ontario lost an additional 12,000 jobs. This drives Ontario’s unemployment rate up to 9.3%. Over the past year, Dalton McGuinty has presided over the loss of 205,900 Ontario jobs. It was just one year ago this week that Dalton McGuinty led Ontario into becoming a ‘have-not’ province.
The Ontario PC Caucus released a Small Business Jobs Plan that, if implemented, would help Ontario businesses and entrepreneurs create sustainable long-term jobs right away. Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak also continues to call on Dalton McGuinty to abandon his HST plan, which will be bad for Ontario businesses and families.
QUOTES:
“By virtually every economic indicator – this is a dismal performance. While other parts of the country dig themselves out of recession, Dalton McGuinty is digging us deeper into have-not status.”
– Ontario PC MPP Norm Miller
“It is clear that the McGuinty Government has become so distracted by scandal that it has failed to introduce a real jobs plan for Ontario families and businesses. Now, more than ever, Ontario needs a new direction.”
– Ontario PC MPP Norm Miller
“Dalton McGuinty took record economic growth and job creation and turned it into record deficits, tax increases and unemployment. Hardworking Ontario Families are working harder than ever and paying more in tax. The deficit and debt are spiraling out of control. And there are no new jobs to show for it.”
– Ontario PC MPP Norm Miller
QUICK FACTS:
The McGuinty Liberal Record
- In Budget 2009, the McGuinty Government promised to create 146,000 new jobs this year and 300,000 new jobs by the end 2010-11. (http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/budget/ontariobudgets/2009/chpt1.html#chart7 )
- Statistics Canada’s latest job numbers confirm that the McGuinty Government has, in fact, lost 32,000 thousand jobs since making this promise. http://www.statcan.gc.ca/subjects-sujets/labour-travail/lfs-epa/lfs-epa-eng.htm
- Ontario’s unemployment rate has increased to 9.3%.
- Over the past year alone, the McGuinty Government has presided over the loss of 205,900 jobs.
The Ontario PC Caucus Small Business Jobs Plan would encourage jobs now by:
- Repealing the McGuinty government’s job-killing Bill 119, which forces independent operators and sole proprietors into the WSIB system and requires WSIB coverage for office and secretarial staff who will never set foot on a construction site. This bill will cost affected small businesses more than $11,000 in additional taxes each year.
- Ensuring permanent small business representation on the WSIB.
- Implementing a one year payroll tax holiday on new hires that will make it more affordable for businesses to hire new staff;
- Suspending the land-transfer tax for one year, which will make home ownership more affordable for young families – and help create new construction jobs.
- Re-instating a Red Tape Commission that will eliminate the many unnecessary regulations that punish small businesses.
- Implementing a moratorium on new regulations that will impact private sector job creation until the Red Tape Commission is in place to reduce the overall regulatory burden.
- Turning Ontario’s 3:1 journeyman-to-apprentice ratio into a 1:1 ratio. This will help more young tradespeople into the market, and make it more affordable for small businesses to hire new workers.
- Suspending the McGuinty Government’s decision to place 100% of the cost burden for the blue box program on small businesses. This places an unfair and unwarranted cost burden on businesses and manufacturers and will cost jobs. Instead, government should maintain the existing 50-50 split.
- Continuing to use every tool available to stop Dalton McGuinty’s plan to merge the HST and PST into a super ‘Dalton Sales Tax’ that will take $3 billion out of the pockets of consumers and kill jobs.
