TORONTO (May 5, 1994) - Interim Fp Leader Jack Plant and Fp Secretary Robert Vaughan visited Queen's Park for the tabling of the 1994 Ontario Budget.
Plant had an opportunity to express his concerns over the NDP government's extravagant spending and its projected $8.5 billion deficit to Progressive conservative Party Leader Mike Harris, Canadian Federation of Independent Business spokesperson Catherine Swift, and London Free Press Queen's Park reporter Greg Van Moorsel. Plant plans to make frequent visits to Queen's Park to meet with government MPPs and officials to express Fp's policies concerning issues important to our members.
Treasurer Floyd Laughren's public statement that the NDP's 1994 budget contained no new taxes and represented a "stay the course" budget drew a response from Plant.
In a media release issued May 4, Plant commented: "To suggest that this budget contains no new taxes is evasive and misleading, to say the least. Any deficit is a new tax, simply deferred, and Laughren will not succeed in convincing the Ontario public otherwise. A commitment to 'stay the course' is a commitment that avoids the changes necessary to preserve not only the fiscal integrity of this province, but the very fabric of Ontario's social safety net."
Citing the fact that Ontario's debt is increasing at a rate over $1 million per hour, Plant emphasized that any government committed to "staying this course" is committed to bankrupting the province.
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