2012 Ontario election analysis: huge set-back for Tories

Ontario’s October 6th election resulted in a Liberal minority and a third term for Premier Dalton McGuinty. This was not a vote of confidence in the Liberals, but rather a major defeat for the Tories, who were rejected in northern and urban Ontario, despite polls which showed them in the lead last spring, and despite some gains in eastern and rural Ontario.      One... Read More

Ontario Liberal budget attacks public sector

People’s Voice, April 16 2011. By Liz Rowley.   Setting the stage for the October 6 provincial election, the Ontario Liberals have crafted a budget intended to scare voters away from the provincial Tories, while wooing Big Business for their continued support.   The budget speech announced that recovery is in full swing, but the world is an unstable place and thus... Read More

Ontario unions organize against wage freeze

By Stuart Ryan, Ottawa People’s Voice, Sept. 2010   The Ontario Liberal government is trying to make its workers pay for the economic crisis by ensuring that employees of the public and para-public sectors take a wage freeze for two years whenever their collective agreements expire in the next five years.   In his March 2010 budget, Finance Minister Dwight Duncan... Read More

Ontario budget: open for business

By Liz Rowley, CPC (Ontario) leader People’s Voice Newspaper, May 2010   The Ontario budget delivers on the government’s promise to open the province up to (foreign) business. It includes a $4.6 billion corporate tax cut, another $4.5 billion cut effective July 1 with the implementation of the Harmonized Sales Tax, elimination of the capital tax, and a small business... Read More