News from the Campaign of Ontario’s Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne
Math 10th, 2014 -Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals have released a “sneak preview” of a 30-second television ad that will start running on May 21.
The Ontario Liberal’s Finance Minister Charles Sousa
Today is the fourth day of a provincial election triggered by Andrea Horwath and the NDP when they rejected the 2014 Budget. Liberal Finance Minister and candidate for Mississauga South Charles Sousa showcased an ad in which Premier Kathleen Wynne questions the NDP’s decision to put her clear plan to support families and create jobs at risk.
In accordance with election rules, the commercial will not run in any paid media until midnight on May 21, when the Elections Ontario advertising blackout ends. Until then, Ontarians are invited to visit kathleenwynne.ca to view the sneak preview of the ad.
The ad highlights the job-creating initiatives, supports for families, and transit projects contained in the 2014 Budget that Andrea Horwath and the NDP rejected, including:
Help for families with an indexed increase to the Ontario Child Benefit.
Creating the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan to give people the comfortable, secure retirement they deserve
An achievable plan to invest in roads, bridges and transit to make everyday life easier and grow the economy.
A 2.5 billion dollar plan to create new jobs by partnering with business.
The hasty, behind-closed-doors decision by Andrea Horwath and the NDP to plunge Ontario into an election means the Liberal Budget and Premier Kathleen Wynne’s clear, achievable plan for jobs, transit and secure pensions is on hold. Andrea Horwath’s decision not to support the Budget and force this election is particularly puzzling given that the NDP have no realistic plan of their own. The reckless actions of Andrea Horwath’s NDP just don’t make any sense.
In rejecting the Budget, Horwath, who often claims to represent the “real” people of Ontario, is choosing politics over progress and partisanship over partnership.
QUOTE
“The reckless actions of Andrea Horwath’s NDP just don’t make any sense. Why have the NDP plunged Ontario into an election over our plan to create jobs, build transit and secure pensions if they have no plan of their own to offer voters? Ontarians have every right to ask: Is Andrea Horwath for real?”
— Charles Sousa, Finance Minister and candidate for Mississauga South
QUICK FACTS
Premier Kathleen Wynne’s 2014 Budget included plans to help middle and low income families by increasing the Ontario Child Benefit to $1,310 per child in 2014, and ensuring families receive annual increases at the rate of inflation.
The 2014 Ontario Budget provided for an average $1 per hour wage increase in 2015 and a further average $1 per hour wage increase in 2016 for early childhood educators.
Ontario Liberals are proposing to give personal support workers in the publicly funded home and community care sector a $4 per hour wage increase over the next three years.
The 2014 Budget not supported by Andrea Horwath’s NDP would have created the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan that could roughly double the retirement benefits Ontarians receive from the Canada Pension Plan.
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