Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke MP Cheryl Gallant was pleased to host fellow Federal Conservative MP Patrick Brown in Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke. MP Brown is the frontrunner in the race to lead the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario to victory and become the next Premier of Ontario.
“Patrick Brown recognizes, as I do, if we do not get real, substantive change at Queen’s Park, things will only get worse for our youth, and particularly our seniors, or anyone else on a fixed income who cannot afford to pay for necessities like hydro,” stated MP Gallant. “It would be a total disaster for Canada if the crazy Toronto liberal policies were shoved onto the rest of the country.”
“The naïve leader of the federal Liberal counts as his main advisor the person who wrote the “Greed” Energy Act” that is responsible for the huge Hydro rate increases,” she added. “Ontario is spending billions on industrial wind turbines nobody wants to generate power we cannot use. That includes paying American States over a billion dollars to take unusable electricity rather than giving ratepayers a break on their power bills.”
MP Gallant continued, “Patrick Brown is committed to lowering hydro rates. By scrapping the greed energy act, which he has pledged to do, we can start the process of repairing Ontario’s finances.
“Constituents are constantly pleading for the Federal Government to intervene in areas of provincial jurisdiction because Ontario is so mis-managed,” she said. “I am hearing stories of residents wearing snowmobile suits indoors and using candles because hydro has become so expensive. I shudder to think what would happen if there was no Federal Conservative Government to provide balance.”
“Consumption taxes like the proposed federal liberal carbon tax and hydro bill add-ons, are the worst kind of taxes as they disproportionately affect the poor and the unemployed,” MP Gallant stated. “There are 350,000 fewer manufacturing jobs in Ontario as a result of the carbon tax/global adjustment charge the Toronto liberals have added to everyone’s hydro bill. The only reason Ontario is not worse off than it is, is the steady economic leadership from our Conservative Government in Ottawa.
“As a member of the Conservative team in Ottawa, Patrick understands good government and the right way to look after jobs and the economy. I am proud to offer my support to someone who knows what it takes to get the job done,” concluded MP Gallant.
