Garfield Dunlop

DUNLOP QUESTIONS MINISTER ON STATUS OF HIGHWAY 12 - November 2, 2005

(Queen’s Park) – Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop is pleased with the response he has received from Minister of Transportation Harinder Takhar following questioning last week at the Standing Committee on Estimates.

TWO YEARS AND ZERO NEW OFFICERS ON STREETS - October 25, 2005

(Queen’s Park) – The McGuinty Liberals’ inaction and neglect in dealing with escalating gun crime is not going to be fixed through another photo op or more promises, Community Safety Critic Garfield Dunlop said today.

KEEPING TRACK OF McGUINTY'S RECORD OF BROKEN PROMISES - August 9, 2005

Sample of promises broken since Dalton McGuinty was sworn in as Premier of Ontario in October 2003

DUNLOP INTRODUCES BILL TO STOP CLOSURE OF FACILITIES FOR PEOPLE WITH A DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY - May 30, 2005

(Queen’s Park) – Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop introduced a bill in the Ontario legislature today that would prevent the McGuinty Liberals from closing the three remaining government-operated facilities in Ontario for people with a developmental disability.

McGUINTY BUDGET BREAKS MORE PROMISES AND INCREASES DEFICIT - May 11, 2005

(Queen’s Park) – With the Liberals’ 2005 budget presented today, the McGuinty government has lived up to its reputation as a ‘tax and spend’ government that has no clear plan for Ontario’s economic future.

BACKGROUNDER – BUDGET 2005 - May 11, 2005

Under the McGuinty Liberalsx 2005 budget, 15 ministries government-wide have either been cut, flat-lined or provided with a meagre spending increase that is less than the rate of inflation.

DUNLOP CRITICIZES PUPATELLO FOR VISITING HRC FOR THE WRONG REASONS - April 28, 2005

(Queen’s Park) – Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop today criticized Community and Social Services Minister Sandra Pupatello for paying an emergency visit to Huronia Regional Centre (HRC) in Orillia this morning for no other reason than to avoid political embarrassment.

DUNLOP WELCOMES FUNDING FOR LOCAL SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT - April 25, 2005

(Queen’s Park) – Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop today announced that the Township of Severn will receive up to $1,066,666 from both the provincial and the federal government to upgrade the Coldwater Sewage Treatment Plant under the Canada-Ontario Municipal Rural Infrastructure Fund (COMRIF).

McGUINTY LIBERALS TURN DOWN FREER SPEECH AND TRANSPARENCY AT MUNICIPAL LEVEL - April 7, 2005

(Queen’s Park) – Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop criticized the McGuinty government today for turning against elected municipal councillors and elected school board trustees by voting down Bill 165, the Elected Officials Immunity Act.

DUNLOP KICKS OFF MARIJUANA GROW OPS DEBATE FOR TORIES April 1, 2005

(Queen’s Park) – Garfield Dunlop, P.C. Critic for Community Safety and MPP for Simcoe North, yesterday delivered the Progressive Conservative Opposition’s first speech for 2nd Reading debate on Bill 128 that deals with indoor marijuana grow operations.

LIBERALS REJECT DUNLOP’S PROPOSAL TO ADD MANDATORY REPORTING OF KNIFE INJURIES TO BILL 110 March 9, 2005

(Queen’s Park) – Garfield Dunlop, P.C. Critic for Community Safety and Correctional Services, today proposed four amendments to Bill 110 that were flatly turned down by Liberal MPPs on the Standing Committee on Justice Policy. The four amendments would have strengthened the legislation by including the mandatory reporting of knife injuries that are obviously not self-inflicted. Without these amendments, Bill 110 only requires the disclosure of information to police about persons being treated for gunshot wounds.

‘NO SHOW’ LIBERALS DISAPPOINT ONTARIO’S FARMERS March 2, 2005

(Queen’s Park) – Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop said today that the Liberal Cabinet Ministers most accountable to the people of Ontario for agriculture escaped Queen’s Park today to avoid facing thousands of protesting farmers.

DUNLOP URGES PUPATELLO TO KEEP 1,000 BEDS OPEN FOR PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES WHO NEED SPECIAL CARE February 11, 2005

(Queen’s Park) – In the following letter, Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop today issued yet another plea to Community and Social Services Minister Sandra Pupatello to meet with the families of Huronia Regional Centre residents. He also requested that the Minister establish 1,000 permanent beds for Ontario’s most vulnerable people with developmental disabilities.

DUNLOP URGES McGUINTY TO FOCUS ON KEEPING PROMISES, INSTEAD OF CHANGING ONTARIO’S SYMBOLS February 4, 2005

(Queen’s Park) – Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop today urged the McGuinty Liberals to scrap their controversial Ontario rebranding campaign and start keeping the 231 promises they made during the 2003 election campaign.

DUNLOP FRUSTRATED BY ‘0 DOLLAR’ ANNOUNCEMENT ON INTERNET CRIME January 21, 2005

(Queen’s Park) – Garfield Dunlop, P.C. Critic for Community Safety and Correctional Services, today criticized the McGuinty government for continuing to make law-and-order announcements with no new dollars attached.

DUNLOP TO PUPATELLO: VISIT HURONIA REGIONAL CENTRE OR RESIGN January 19, 2005

(Queen’s Park) – Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop today challenged Community and Social Services Minister Sandra Pupatello to visit Huronia Regional Centre (HRC) and meet with the families of its residents, or resign from her Cabinet position.

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