NEWS:

TORONTO –Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak announced today Pamela Taylor will be the Ontario PC Candidate in the Toronto Centre by-election.

Pamela is a successful business woman and has a long history of volunteer involvement in Toronto Centre. Her community leadership includes her central role in the construction of the innovative Peregrine co-op as well as her long-time advocacy to improve legal representation for low-income Torontonians. As a thirty-year resident, Pamela understands the issues facing Toronto and the neighbourhoods in Toronto Centre. Pamela and her family reside in Moore Park.

Under Dalton McGuinty, Toronto is in steep decline with an exodus of jobs, decaying infrastructure and high taxes, with the $ 3 billion HST tax grab being the latest tax hike on families. Spending scandals at eHealth, OLG and WSIB show the rot of entitlement and waste that has spread across the Liberal government. The PC Party will talk to voters about our ideas to restore jobs to Toronto and accountable representation at Queen’s Park.

QUOTES:

“I am delighted to have an excellent candidate like Pamela Taylor representing our Ontario PC team in Toronto Centre. Ms. Taylor will stand up for mainstream conservative principles and provide a real voice for the people who have been left behind by Dalton McGuinty’s tax increases, scandals and waste.”

– Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak

“I am honoured to have been asked to represent Tim Hudak and the Ontario PC Party in the Toronto Centre by-election. I look forward to putting my 30 years of experience in the community to work in order bring real change to Toronto Centre and get our city and our province back on track.”

– Pamela Taylor, Ontario PC Candidate for Toronto Centre

“The McGuinty Liberals continue to take Toronto for granted. More than ever, people in Toronto Centre are saying ‘no’ to more McGuinty Liberal tax hikes, record spending and runaway deficits. They deserve to see real change.”

– Pamela Taylor, Ontario PC Candidate for Toronto Centre

CONTACT

Brian Patterson
Brian.patterson@ontariopc.com
426-848-8166

Toronto, ON – Newly elected Leader of the Ontario PC Party, Tim Hudak, was at a Toronto apartment building to highlight the negative impact the ‘Dalton Sales Tax’ or DST will have on renters in the province. The DST is the harmonization of the PST and GST, and will increase the cost of numerous items, including rent.

“Ontario families and seniors are already working hard enough to manage household expenses, balance the chequebook and pay the bills and with Dalton McGuinty’s latest tax grab it will be even harder,” Hudak said. “Under the Dalton Sales Tax renters will be punished at a time when they can least afford it, because the DST means an automatic jump in the price of rent. The Dalton Sales Tax must be stopped.”

According the Federation of Rental Housing Providers of Ontario, under the Dalton Sales Tax, a tenant paying $1000 a month will see the cost of their rent increase between $270 and $320 per year. That amount represents the impact of adding 8% to goods and services which previously did not face PST: repair, maintenance and property management services, natural gas and electricity.

In addition, the DST will slap another 8% tax on: cable, cell phone and internet services. More than one-quarter of renters will also see an immediate jump in their utility costs as a result of paying directly for utilities that are not included in their building’s rent.

Hudak called on Ontario renters to join him in the fight to stop the DST by signing a petition to show the Liberals that families in the province oppose this massive tax grab.

“It’s time to tell Dalton McGunity that enough is enough, before he takes one more dollar from your pocket,” Hudak said. “Ontario families deserve our support, especially now during tough economic times and that’s why I’m committed to fighting and stopping the ‘Dalton Sales Tax’.”

Under the McGuinty government, Ontario has lost 330,000 manufacturing jobs, the unemployment rate is among the highest in Canada, the budget deficit next year is forecasted to be the highest in history – more than $18 billion – and for the first time ever, Ontario is a “have-not” province receiving equalization payments from the federal government.
For a full list of items that will be taxed under the DST and to sign the petition visit www.daltonsalestax.com