NDP leader Howard Hampton says the McGuinty government must do more than point the finger at Ottawa, and take immediate and bold action to reverse an Ontario manufacturing recession that December’s jobs’ report suggests has taken a dramatic turn for the worse.
Hampton said a good place to start would be to immediately introduce a competitive industrial hydro rate for key manufacturing and resource sectors.

NDP leader Howard Hampton on Monday asked tough questions of Dalton McGuinty over the premier’s failure to take any meaningful action to help workers in the embattled manufacturing sector.
“Every time I visit Ontario’s industrial heartland communities, people tell me their number-one priority is the loss of good-paying manufacturing jobs,” Hampton said.
“Mr. McGuinty must answer to why he is only studying the problem when what people want is for him to take action to sustain jobs and keep Ontario families working.”

More than one million Ontarians don’t have access to primary care. There often are not enough doctors to keep our emergency rooms open or our hospitals operating.
Ontario families are frustrated and often afraid because of these growing waits.
When it comes to health care in Ontario, the McGuinty government has yet to realize there is a very effective and economical way of improving health care services.
In Ontario, we have a trained and able group of professionals ready and willing to take on many of the services presently only available in doctors’ offices.

You’ve probably seen the photo-ops: McGuinty government politicians in hard hats, holding shovels, and wearing big smiles as they break ground on private for-profit hospitals.

When I buy milk at the grocery store, the first thing I do is look for an expiry date. The last thing I want to find out when I open a carton and pour a glass is that the milk is sour and unfit to drink.

This year, Ontario will have its very first fixed-date election. Voters will go to the polls to elect their MPPs on Oct. 10.

Throughout January, MPPs have been meeting and listening to testimony on the McGuinty Liberals’ Bill 140, the Long-Term Care Homes Act.

For many working parents, the holiday season is a difficult time. While children are off from school, they still have to work.

  Gasoline is a product people rely on every day for things like driving to work, driving kids to school or picking up the groceries.

I believe in a good job for everyone—because a good job is the best way to make sure working women and men share Ontario’s prosperity.