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McGuinty funds flying squirrel sex research
Tory calls on Dalton McGuinty to get a grip on spending, stop wasting taxpayers’ money
Toronto, march 19 /cnw/ – With four days until the provincial budget, Progressive Conservative party leader John Tory today called on Dalton McGuinty to rein in his government’s reckless spending after learning taxpayers are paying $150,000 for flying squirrel sex research.
“Dalton McGuinty is treating taxpayers’ dollars like monopoly money,” said Tory. “For $150,000 to be spent on this after Dalton Mcguinty brought in the biggest tax increase in Ontario’s history is inexcusable. The McGuinty government’s spending is out of control – who knows what other boondoggles they have squirreled away in their upcoming budget?”
Dalton Mcguinty created the ministry of research and innovation in June 2005 and appointed himself minister. In September 2005, his ministry awarded a researcher at Laurentian University with a $150,000 grant to study the sex life of flying squirrels.
“This is a symptom of a much bigger problem with the McGuinty liberals,” said Tory. “They have no respect for taxpayers’ money. While Ontarians struggle to get by, Dalton Mcguinty is spending hundreds of millions of dollars of their money recklessly.”
Tory pointed to several other examples where Dalton Mcguinty has wasted taxpayers’ money. Construction is now underway on a $400 million casino hotel in Windsor funded by the McGuinty government. The liberals also spent $91 million to fire nurses at Ontario hospitals (who were then re-hired at other hospitals) and have spent $179 million creating a new bureaucracy in health care called local health integration networks.
“Someone has to take the government credit card away from Dalton Mcguinty or this province is going to go broke,” said Tory. “Ontarians deserve a leader who respects their hard-earned money, spends it effectively and gets real results – not one who breaks his promises, reaches further into our pockets and then goes on a reckless spending spree.”
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