| MCGUINTY LIBERALS MAKE ELEVENTH HOUR PLAY TO BUY VOTES |
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| Monday, 26 March 2007 19:00 |
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Cheques are in the mail - McGuinty hopes votes will be in the ballot box. QUEEN’S PARK, March 27, 2007– This summer, just as Ontario families start to hear more about the provincial election, they will begin to receive cheques in the mail signed by Dalton McGuinty. "The Ontario Child Benefit Program was designed not with kids in mind, but with votes in mind," said Nepean-Carleton MPP Lisa Macleod. "Only now, at the eleventh hour, after three and a half years of dithering and delaying, has Dalton McGuinty decided to get serious about child poverty." According to MacLeod, this is yet another example in McGuinty’s long history of saying anything to get elected. Ontario’s families and children deserve more than a last-ditch payoff so they’ll forget the scores of broken promises from McGuinty’s mandate. MacLeod took the opportunity in the Legislature today to ask hard questions of the government. "Why the focus now? Why not a full benefit now? Why implement a half-baked scheme right before the provincial election?" asked MacLeod. "Here we are today, celebrating a vote-buying downpayment when it will take another four to five years before Ontario’s most vulnerable families will even derive any real benefit from the plan." -30- For more information: Stephen Gilman, Executive Assistant Office of Lisa MacLeod, MPP (Nepean-Carleton) Phone: 613-823-2116 Cell: 613-297-2051 |