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Ontario Assembly

43rd Parl. 1st Sess.
April 17, 2024 09:00AM
  • Apr/17/24 11:20:00 a.m.

They call saving taxpayers money a publicity stunt. You know, Scott Moe is one of my best pals there. We share the same values. But if you call saving taxpayers money by reducing 10.7 cents off the gas prices when everyone is going to wake up tomorrow morning and pay another 14 more cents on top of the 17.5 cents, getting rid of the licence stickers, getting rid of the registration, making sure we got rid of the 412 and 418 tolls—that’s a publicity stunt?

We’re the only government in the history of Ontario that has never raised a tax on your parents; making sure they’re going to have a job, the students up there; making sure that we created 700,000 new jobs; putting more money on people’s kitchen tables and being able to pay rent and put a deposit down for a house. You call that a publicity stunt?

By the way, you won’t have a job next election.

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But guess what? We’re building Ontario. We’ve become an economic powerhouse. Under the Liberals and the NDP—you destroyed the province. You bankrupted it. You created hallway health care. You didn’t build any hospitals.

We’re building 50 new hospitals or additions. We’re building the 413 and the Bradford Bypass. We’re putting $190 billion into infrastructure to make sure people have an opportunity to get from point A to point B, but most importantly, we’ve landed $28 billion in the EV sector, creating tens of thousands of jobs.

Over 700,000 people are working today that weren’t working five and a half years ago. Under your watch, you lost 300,000 jobs—

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