Mr. Speaker,

Remember those job losses we’ve been talking about it manufacturing?

194,000 well paying manufacturing jobs, leaving Ontario since 2006?For the first time in 30 years Ontario’s unemployment rate is higher than the national average

And the startling news that Ontario is straddling the have-not province line

This is the legacy of this Liberal government, their high taxes and their big spending.

The latest casualty of the McGuinty Governnment’s tax and spend policy, is Dell.1,100 Dell employees in Ottawa got pink slips today.

That’s 1,100 parents, recent graduates and residents in the City of Ottawa who will be jobless in 3 months.

Mr. Speaker, I need to know, so do my constituents, what is this Liberal governments plan for the people today who have to go home tonight to their spouses and their children, and face the reality that there won’t be a paycheck to pay the mortgage, to buy the groceries or to pay for university.

The Liberals need to wake up.

We are now in Dalton McGuinty’s recession, the economy is not rosy and if the Liberals won’t take the job losses as proof, they can look to their own ad firm Bensimon Byrne who just yesterday told us the economy is slowing.  Mr. McGuinty’s high taxes, big spending and lack of focus has cost residents in my community, and his to lose their jobs today.

Will he own up to his poor financial planning and deliver a real economic stimulus package, so the workers at Dell and so many others won’t face months of uncertainty on the unemployment line?