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Quote: 1 - NDP Leader Howard Hampton says Dalton McGuinty needs to stop playing the blame game at the Council of the Federation meeting in Vancouver and take real action to help Ontario’s manufacturing maelstrom. 2 - NDP Leader Howard Hampton today called on the McGuinty Liberals to make energy efficiency and conservation the cornerstones of Ontario’s energy future as he toured a Green Home in the Hamilton area. 3 - A property tax rate increase of 3.75 per cent in Toronto announced today is the latest proof that Dalton McGuinty has failed Toronto’s working families, said NDP Municipal Affairs critic Andrea Horwath. January 28, 2008 McGuinty should stop “blame game” and take action on manufacturing jobs: Hampton QUEEN’S PARK - NDP Leader Howard Hampton says Dalton McGuinty needs to stop playing the blame game at the Council of the Federation meeting in Vancouver and take real action to help Ontario’s manufacturing maelstrom. “Ontario will be windswept in the global economic storm unless Dalton McGuinty takes immediate and bold action. Working people losing their jobs don’t need a Premier who points fingers and plays the blame game,” said Hampton. New Democrats continue to call for a comprehensive plan to keep good, high-paying manufacturing jobs in Ontario. The NDP has called for a number of initiatives that would help the manufacturing and the hard working Ontarians it employs. These include: · The creation of an industrial hydro rate that would go a long way to reducing the costs associated with the manufacturing in Ontario, while at the same time promoting conservation and guaranteeing employment. · A “Buy Ontario” policy that would give preferential treatment to goods manufactured in Ontario. · The creation of a Jobs Commissioner who would bring labour, management and government to the table to avert plant closures and job losses. “These are three concrete measures Dalton McGuinty can do now to help the manufacturing jobs crisis. Will McGuinty take action or continue to let the manufacturing sector deteriorate because he refuses to act?” asked Hampton. Media Inquiries: Marion Nader 416-325-2601 ****************** January 28, 2008 Hampton challenges McGuinty to invest in energy efficiency Flamborough - NDP Leader Howard Hampton today called on the McGuinty Liberals to make energy efficiency and conservation the cornerstones of Ontario’s energy future as he toured a Green Home in the Hamilton area. “I challenge Dalton McGuinty to show some leadership and move forward with a bold, ambitious plan for energy efficiency and conservation like the Braden’s Green Home - because tinkering around the edges isn’t good enough,” said the NDP Leader. Hampton was joined by Hamilton Centre MPP Andrea Horwath and Hamilton East -Stoney Creek MPP Paul Miller as they toured the Green Home of David and Cathy Braden. The Braden’s home demonstrates the utmost in energy efficiency and conservation by consuming 85 per cent less energy to heat than a conventional house and use 50 per cent less electricity. Hampton proposed positive, realistic and achievable solutions that would help make Ontario a world leader on energy efficiency, including: · Increased loans and grants for home-owner retrofits, and 100,000 solar hot water heaters installed by 2012; · Amending Energy Efficiency Act regulations to achieve current Energy-Star levels for appliances, HVAC systems, and windows by January 1st, 2009 · Immediately legislating EnerGuide 80 standards into the Ontario Building Code. NDP MPP Paul Miller was impressed by the ingenuity used by the Bradens in the design of the house: “Energy conservation is not about sweating in the dark - it's about being smarter. Ontarians can save energy without taking cold showers and drinking warm beer. We just have to provide them with the tools and financial support to do it,” said Miller. “If the McGuinty government wants Ontario to conserve energy, it needs to put its money where its mouth is. Instead of throwing more money down the nuclear black hole, they should invest in energy efficiency and conservation,” said Horwath. “The Bradens are to be congratulated on their work on energy efficiency. A province-wide building retrofit program to reduce energy costs, save energy, cut pollution and create jobs - now there’s an idea that works for people. If the Braden’s are doing it, Dalton McGuinty should be too,” Hampton said. - 30 - Media Inquiries: Marion Nader (416) 325-2601 ************ January 28, 2008 Property tax rise proves McGuinty failed Toronto Queen’s Park - A property tax rate increase of 3.75 per cent in Toronto announced today is the latest proof that Dalton McGuinty has failed Toronto’s working families, said NDP Municipal Affairs critic Andrea Horwath. “A political vanishing act - that’s what working families have seen from Dalton McGuinty on the important issue of Ontario’s broken property tax system. Now, Toronto families will pay the price for McGuinty’s failures in the form of higher taxes,” Horwath said. At issue is municipal downloading, and the McGuinty government’s refusal to pay for its own programs. Right now, the McGuinty Liberals refuse to pay for provincially-mandated services like Ontario Works, childcare and social housing. Ontario’s municipal property taxpayers pay for those programs. Ontario is the only province where that happens. This is why Ontario families pay more in property tax than people anywhere else in Canada. “We must not lose sight of the fact that Mr. McGuinty has done nothing to fix the underlying problems that are driving up assessment in the first place. So now that McGuinty’s temporary freeze is coming off, property taxpayers will get hit with two years of pent-up property assessment increases. That won’t be pretty,” said Horwath. “Seniors and others on fixed income could literally lose their homes.” Horwath also said that if the Province had agreed to implement the NDP’s “Freeze Til Sale” assessment model, many property owners who are seeing increases would be protected. “What frustrates working families the most is Dalton McGuinty forcing people to choose between skyrocketing property taxes and regressive taxes when McGuinty won’t pay his own bills. This has to change. Dalton McGuinty must start paying for his own programs instead of fobbing them off onto municipal property taxpayers,” Horwath said. - 30 - Media Inquiries: Sheila White 416-902-0977 Move Options [New Folder] Tragi tragi