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For immediate release HARDEMAN RESOLUTION WILL PROTECT JOBS QUEEN’S PARK – Progressive Conservative MPP Ernie Hardeman yesterday filed a Private Members’ resolution that will protect much-needed investment in Ontario jobs, including those in Northern Ontario impacted by the Liberals punishing diamond tax. “The McGuinty government has launched an assault on jobs in Ontario. Last month alone we lost 13,000 manufacturing jobs,” the Oxford MPP said. “This resolution is the first step in ensuring investment and job creation across the province.” The resolution, which will be debated Thursday May 17, calls on the Liberal government to repeal the latest McGuinty tax grab. The McGuinty Liberals almost tripled the diamond tax in the latest budget to 13 per cent. The move came after Ontario’s first diamond mine opened and McGuinty bragged about how low taxes are for the industry. Hardeman pointed to a press release issued the day Victor Mine was opened in which Dalton McGuinty’s office took pride in the fact that “provincial tax rates for mining are among the lowest in Canada.” The surprise mining tax has negatively impacted the Victor Mine located in Northern Ontario which is expected to have potentially an almost $7 billion impact on the local Aboriginal community. The mine will result in at least 400 direct jobs and many more indirectly. Hardeman recently surveyed Oxford businesses, 86.7% of respondents said that Ontario taxes are too high. Hardeman added, “Here is a government that
got elected by promising not to raise taxes. It sends an awful message
to people who want to invest in Ontario when government changes the
rules mid-game. The Progressive Conservative caucus is trying to clean
up Dalton McGuinty’s tax-and-spend mess.”
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