NEWS:

Cornwall - Today, Ontario PC MPPs Lisa MacLeod and Steve Clark unveiled WasteWatchers.ca, a new website that invites Cornwall families to blow the whistle on the McGuinty government's wasteful spending.

Whether it's reporting the $1-billion eHealth boondoggle, the $7-billion secret corporate giveaway to Samsung or $1,700 golf clubs, WasteWatchers.ca empowers Cornwall families to stop the Liberals from bloating the size of government even more.  By helping Tim Hudak and the Ontario PCs uncover even more McGuinty waste, Cornwall families will help an Ontario PC government reinvest taxpayer dollars into the most-needed services, like frontline healthcare.

WasteWatchers.ca shows that, in the next provincial election, Cornwall families will have a clear choice between continuing Dalton McGuinty's wasteful spending, and a Tim Hudak PC government that respects that Cornwall families pay the bills.

QUOTES:

"Waste Watchers.ca allows Cornwall families to submit their own waste stories.  It's an opportunity for Cornwall families to blow the whistle on wasteful government spending in their own backyard."

- Ontario PC MPP Lisa MacLeod

"The McGuinty waste means higher taxes, a more bloated debt, and more money diverted away from frontline healthcare. Ontario families are left stuck with the bill, and they cannot afford this government's wasteful spending anymore."

- Ontario PC MPP Steve Clark

QUICK FACTS:

• To date, Dalton McGuinty's 14 regional LHIN bureaucracies have diverted $250 million in healthcare spending away from frontline care, handed out $7 million in untendered healthcare contracts, and wasted $250 million on an Aging at Home strategy that failed province-wide to reduce long-term care and alternate-level-of-care wait times.
• In his 2010 Annual Report, the Auditor General revealed that $1,700 was reimbursed for Taylor Made golf clubs, Nintendo Wii's and iPod Touch models at the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC).
• In 2009, the Auditor General revealed that the McGuinty Liberals had wasted $1 billion on the eHealth boondoggle.
• According to the Auditor General, in 2008-2009 OLG staff expensed $1 million in meetings and hospitality expenses.  OLG also spent $1 million annually on corporate retreats and corporate meetings that were held at spas, resorts, an arcade entertainment complex, a boat cruise, and a paintball camp.