Hampton

From the NDP

NDP leader Howard Hampton slammed last Wednesday’s economic statement by Finance minister Dwight Duncan for offering no real plan to deal with Ontario’s staggering manufacturing job losses, growing poverty rates, and crumbling infrastructure.
“Today’s economic statement makes it abundantly clear that Ontario’s economy under Dalton McGuinty has gone from boom to bust,” Hampton said Wednesday. “The McGuinty Liberals had no plan during the good economic times and now they have no plan for the bad times.

Going back to school is a stressful time for parents and kids. It’s a time of new challenges and new relationships, excitement, and some jitters.
Parents have a lot on their minds, getting their kids back into a routine and buying back-to-school supplies. Kids are worried about who they’ll sit next to at lunch at a new school or if they’re wearing the right outfit.

Going back to school is a stressful time for parents and kids. It’s a time of new challenges and new relationships, excitement, and some jitters.
Parents have a lot on their minds, getting their kids back into a routine and buying back-to-school supplies. Kids are worried about who they’ll sit next to at lunch at a new school or if they’re wearing the right outfit.

NDP leader Howard Hampton continues to pressure Premier Dalton McGuinty to commit to ensuring immediate changes to address First Nations’ rights in regards to mineral exploration.
“The McGuinty Liberals have been in power for more than five years and continue to talk about changes to the Mining Act, but all we hear is talk,” said Hampton.
“The McGuinty Liberals could immediately bring in a regulation that would be an important first step in ensuring First Nations’ consultation. But the Premier refused,” he added.

NDP leader Howard Hampton says Dalton McGuinty’s economic policies are failing to protect the province’s good-paying manufacturing jobs and sentencing more Ontario families to poverty.
The magnitude of the manufacturing jobs crisis was heightened Monday with the announcement that General Motors is closing its Windsor transmission plant, sending another 1,400 workers on the unemployment lines.
“This is devastating news for Windsor and adds to the almost 220,000 manufacturing jobs lost across Ontario since July, 2004,” said Hampton.

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.