The McGuinty Liberals' budget is a fairy-tale budget full of accounting wizardry and selective information designed to mislead voters. Since coming to office, Dalton McGuinty has increased spending time and time again. And what has happened is Taxpayers are in fact Paying MORE and Getting LESS.

According to the McGuinty government's own numbers, many of the key indicators are going in the wrong direction.

Compared to what they told Ontarians last year, they've had to revise their economic growth projections DOWN by almost 18%.

At the same time, taxes are UP, electricity rates are UP, the debt keeps going UP, and total spending is UP, UP, UP.

It goes to show that in his budget numbers - like in everything else he does - you just can not believe a word Dalton McGuinty says. This budget continues Dalton McGuinty's sorry record of unfulfilled promises. Rather than actually act on past promises he has made, he is trying to cover his tracks and has created 43 new ones.

The 2006 McGuinty budget is one more example of broken promises and missed opportunities.

Dalton McGuinty started as Premier by breaking promises and this budget continues his legacy as a promise breaker.

Incredibly, even though Dalton McGuinty continues to break promises - including failing to balance the budget for the third year in a row - he made 43 NEW promises in the 2006 budget.


Here is an ongoing list of the top 50 campaign promises Dalton McGuinty has failed to keep since becoming Premier.



Top 50 list of Dalton McGuinty's Broken Promises

1. "I won't raise your taxes."

2. Balance the Budget every year of their mandate

3. Balance the Budget by 2007

4. Roll back tolls on the 407

5. Fund Medically-Necessary Health Care Services (de-listed eye exams, chiropractic care and physiotherapy

6. Not Add to the Province's Debt

7. Stop 6,600 Houses on the Oak Ridges Moraine

8. Abide by the Balanced Budget law

9. Cap Hydro Rates at 4.3 cents per Kilowatt Hour Until 2006

10. Respect MPPs and Democracy

11. Allow all non-cabinet MPPs to criticize and vote against government legislation

12. Provide autism treatment beyond age six

13. Reduce Auto Insurance Rates by 10% Within 90 Days

14. Reduce Private Consultants

15. Cancel P3 Hospitals in Brampton and Ottawa

16. Public Inquiry into Meat Inspection

17. Withdraw Government Appeal on the Richmond Landfill

18. Make Ontario's Chief Medical Officer an independent officer of the Legislature

19. Govern with honesty and integrity

20. Respect the Outcome of the Kawartha Lakes Referendum on Amalgamation

21. Better mental health care

22. Value and Support the Public Service

23. Divert 60% of municipal garbage to recycling by 2005

24. Close "private" MRI and CT clinics

25. Stop School Closings

26. "Immediately" establish an Arts and Culture Advisory Council

27. Provide Adequate, Multi-Year Funding for Hospitals

28. Hire Over 1,000 Teachers a Year

29. Hire 1,000 New Police Officers

30. Close Coal-Fired Electricity Plants by 2007

31. Hire 100 New Parole and Probation Officers

32. Double the Number of Apprentices

33. Create Tens of Thousands of New Child Care Spaces

34. End the "Clawback" of the Federal Child Tax Credit

35. Build 20,000 New Affordable Housing Units

36. Spend "Every Penny" of the New Health Tax on Health Care

37. Cut Ministers' Pay for Running a Deficit

38. Eliminate Barriers to Foreign-Trained Professionals within One Year

39. Require Trades and Professions to Accept Qualified Immigrants within One Year

40. Repeal the Tenant Protection Act within One Year

41. Establish a Standing Committee on Education to Hold Yearly Hearings

42. Liberal Promises Would Cost $5.9 Billion

43. Provide Legal Rights to Victims of Crime

44. Hire 8,000 nurses by the end of 2007

45. Make the Ministry of Agriculture a lead ministry

46. Invest in rural roads and bridges

47. Support the Province's Cities

48. Make sure health dollars are being spent wisely

49. Stop the waste of taxpayers' dollars

50. Guarantee stable, long-term funding for our rural communities

 

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