So…it’s “only” the gas plants and e-Health, according to some friends who, if the Liberals even admitted they were guilty of this list, would still create justifications to vote for them this time. Well, here you go – if you can’t stomach the idea of anything less than a massacre at the polls this time around, I suggest posting this to your timelines once a week.
Green Energy Act (20 billion).
eHealth scandal (almost 2 billion).
Gas plant scandal (1.1 billion theft and cover-up of our tax dollars).
ORNGE scandal (700 million).
Ontario Northland Railway scandal (820 million).
Caledonia Hydro Line scandal (116 million).
Lobbyist scandal (two multi-million dollar scandals).
Eco-Fee Reversal scandal (18 million).
CancerCare Ontario scandal (millions of dollars).
Slush Fund scandal (32 million).
Niagara Falls Commission scandal.
Ontario Power Generation scandal.
Children’s Aid Society scandal.
Nanticoke Coal Power Plant Shutdown scandal.
G20 Secretly Approved Police Power scandal.
Auto Insurance scandal.
Foreign Scholarships scandal (our students pay the highest tuition in Canada while foreign students get free university educations).
Offshore Wind Turbines scandal.
Samsung scandal (sole-sourcing).
Pan Am scandal (cost increase from 1.4 to 2.5 billion).
MPAC scandal (over and under-valuation of properties).
OLG scandal (millions of dollars).
Isotape Shortage scandal.
Chemotherapy Dosage scandal.
Payout for Pan Am CEO (250 million).
Trillium Wind Power and Sky Power Limited lawsuit (500 million)
Cement company lawsuit (275 million) – Quarry outside Hamilton was scuttled for political reasons.
School bus service lawsuit.
Augusta/Westland lawsuit as it pertains to ORNGE.
Elliot Lake Collapse lawsuits (two lives lost due to recovery delays).
Ontario Medical Association lawsuits – applied to Superior Court alleging McGuinty not negotiating in “good faith” .
Breast Screening scandal (ensuing lawsuits due to thousands of misread mammograms, one life lost.)
Class-action lawsuit for autism funding cancellation.
Over 650 new agencies, boards, commissions and entities such as LHIN’s and CCAC’s.
Over 300,000 new public servants many of whom, are on the sunshine list.
Public sector employment in health care increased by 39%.
Public sector employment in social services increased by 39%.
Public sector employment in education increased by 34%.
Paying more Liberal taxes only to receive fewer services as taxes now being spent to pay the salaries and perks of newly-assigned, Liberal-friendly public servants.
Gutted our manufacturing base (job growth across Canada except in Ontario).
Nearly one million Ontarians now out of work.
Increased spending by 80% while our economy grew by only 9%.
More than doubled our debt to 288 billion.
Running a 11.3 billion annual deficit.
Debt servicing costs will rise from 11.4 billion today to 14.5 billion once the debt exceeds 300 billion by 2017-18.
Interest payments on our debt now the third largest budget expenditure after health and education.
Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress confirmed that McGuinty’s Green Energy Act grossly underestimated the cost to consumers and overestimated the number of new jobs that would be created.
Tax collectors getting 45,000.00 severance packages for switching job titles from provincial to federal.
Two ministries under an OPP criminal investigation – ORNGE and gas plant scandals.
Pharmacy war.
Illegal green taxes.
Increased smart meter, electricity, hydro, tuition and car insurance costs.
Implemented tire tax, electronics tax, eco fee, health premium (tax), WSIB tax increase, HST, beer surtax.
Failing grade on ADHD education.
Ranking the lowest of all provinces for fiscal performance.
Delisting eye exams, physiotherapy, chiropractic care, diabetic strips, etc.
Increasing wait time for cataract surgery.
No longer covered for eye exams yet taxpayers paying for sex changes.
Wait time for nursing home bed tripled.
Failure to disclose elevated radiation levels.
OES missed its collection and recycling targets by 59%.
Not correcting the foreign ownership of our beer market.
Acceptance of garbage striker extortion.
Harassing labour inspectors.
Kowtowing to green energy lobbies.
Imposing blood alcohol rules that punish people who are not impaired.
Public utilities donating to Liberals.
Voting to cover up the Niagara Parks Commission scandal.
Emergency room wait times not meeting provincial targets.
Put on notice by Standard and Poor, credit rating downgraded, under a very serious credit watch.
Have-not province for the first time in Canadian history
Borrowing more debt than any province except NB
Dramatic cuts in health care services in schools
Nurses getting bonuses despite a wage freeze
Insufficient senior homecare services
Failing grade of Family Responsibility Office
Abstained from vote to investigate CBC expenses
Cash kickback scheme involving government cleaning contracts
Talked about a two-year freeze on wages for public sector while previously giving the OPP a 5% wage increase – the OPP received another raise of over 8% in January, 2014
Energy now unaffordable yet we must pay Quebec and some north-eastern States to take our surplus energy.
Encouraging farmers to build small-scale solar projects but having no way to connect them to the power grid.
Laid up in US hospital beds as no beds available in Ontario.
Refusing public inquiry into G20 fiasco.
Giving those who hire only newcomers a 10,000.00 tax credit.
Third highest user of food banks.
Announced pay freezes knowing that 38,000 were getting a 3% salary increase after the election.
Nortel Pensions bailout .
Hiding hospital errors from the public.
Teachers skipping classes to assist with anti-Conservative campaign.
Failing grade in northern forestry management.
Almost 40 C. difficile deaths to date.
Loss of 6,500 cancer patient health records.
Highest rent increase rate in years.
Ignoring evidence that wind turbines can cause poor health.
Workers at eHealth suing for not receiving bonuses.
Liam denied eye care that another child is receiving under OHIP.
Ontarians pleading for their lives or dying because they aren’t getting the health care they need.
Lady with a brain tumor denied help to cover costs which costs are covered in Manitoba.
Electricity rates to rise 42% over five years.
Prior loss of 60,000 jobs in the horse racing industry – now attempting to correct this.
Presto
Ring of Fire Cleaning kick-back scheme that ended with the conviction of three Liberal officials.