| Jayx1 |
Our electricity rates about to go up again. I heat with electricity so this will cost me about $15 -20 a month more. Thanks Dalton! Thats an extra $240 a year added to the extra $200 a year from the previous increase that you promised wouldnt happen. Not to mention the extra $600 in health tax that I pay even though you promised not to raise my taxes. $1000 a year more I pay in broken promises not including the tax cut that never happened because you were elected. Thanks! It's much appreciated!
BROKEN PROMISES
[McGuinty] • Promised to roll back tolls on highway 407. However, the peak rate for light vehicles will increase one cent per kilometre to 13.95-cents starting Feb. 1, 2004.
• Promised to provide the municipalities with increased provincial funding; now says it cannot afford to provide a 2 cents-per-litre share of gas tax revenues.
• Promised to keep hydro rates at 4.3-cents per kilowatt hour until 2006; Announced rates will increase to at least 4.7-cents in 2004.
(rates to go up again on April 1 2005)
• Promised to cut auto insurance rates; Announced a freeze to insurance rates and a review of rates in 2004.
• Promised electoral reform and proportional representation; Denied NDP official party status despite the 15% popular vote achieved by the NDP in the 2003 election.
• Promised not to run deficits; Announced the Ontario government will run a multi-billion dollar deficit this year.
(It's now up to $6 Billion and isn't going away any time soon)
• Signed pledge to abide by the Taxpayer Protection and Balanced Budget Act; Now plans to amend the act, deeming it too restrictive.
• Promised a public inquiry into the Aylmer meat scandal; Announced the attorney general will review it instead.
• Promised to halt construction of 6,600 homes on the Oak Ridges Moraine; Halted only 900.
• Promised to scrap public-private partnerships to build new hospitals in Ottawa and Brampton; New deal allows same partnerships.
• Promised not to raise taxes and then instituted a new health levy costing between $300 and $900 per year based on income. In the same bill many services were delisted creating more of a two tier system in Ontario. |
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