Ontario PC Caucus Budget Motion Amendment To Condemn $25 Million HST Tax Collector Severance

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QUEEN’S PARK – The Ontario PC Caucus will use their first opportunity on Monday to introduce an amendment to the 2010 Budget Motion condemning the McGuinty Liberals for refusing to protect taxpayers from being forced to pay $25 million in severance to HST tax collectors who will not be losing their jobs.

Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak today released the text of the Ontario PC Budget Motion amendment. Yesterday, Hudak released text of a PC amendment to the Budget Bill that would prevent HST tax collectors from receiving up to $45,000 each in severance despite the fact that they will not be missing a day of work.

The Ontario PC Caucus will continue to use every legislative tool at their disposal, including Opposition Day Motions, Question Period, and Private Members business to protect seniors, families and taxpayers from paying this outrageous and undeserved severance.

Quotes

“Our position is clear. If you don’t lose your job, you don’t collect severance. This is the rule that every other employer in the world follows, it is about time that Dalton McGuinty and his HST tax collectors followed it as well.”

– Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak

“While families struggle to make ends meet, Dalton McGuinty is forking over $25 million in so-called severance to HST tax collectors who are not, in fact, losing their jobs.”

– Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak

Quick Facts

The Ontario PC Caucus has the prerogative of moving an amendment to the main Budget Motion. This amendment is, by convention, a confidence measure. This amendment will be introduced on Monday.

The Ontario PC Caucus will also have the opportunity to move a substantive amendment to the Budget Bill itself. The Ontario PC Budget Bill amendment will close the loophole in the Comprehensive Integrated Tax Coordination Agreement that allows Dalton McGuinty to pay $45,000 in severance to HST collectors under the Public Service of Ontario Act, 2006.