| MPP DUNLOP WELCOMES NOMINATIONS FOR PROVINCIAL AWARDS |
| (Orillia): Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop is encouraging residents and community and volunteer organizations to identify nominees for the Minster of Environment Award for Environmental Excellence and the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration’s Newcomer Champion Awards. |
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| MPP DUNLOP: CALLS ON MTO TO INSTALL TRAFFIC LIGHTS AT HIGHWAY 12 AND FAIRGROUNDS ROAD |
| (Orillia) – Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop is calling on the Ministry of Transportation to install traffic lights at the intersection of Highway 12 and Fairgrounds Road in Orillia. |
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| MPP DUNLOP: PC OPPOSITION DAY MOTION ON
MENTAL HEALTH A SUCCESS |
| QUEEN’S PARK – Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop fully supports his PC Caucus colleague, MPP Christine Elliott’s, Opposition Day Motion. The motion, which was passed yesterday, calls upon the McGuinty government to recognize the crisis Ontario families are facing regarding access to mental health and addictions treatment, and to table an action plan that reflects the recommendations made by the Select Committee on Mental Health and Addictions, within the next 60 days. |
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| Tay Report FEB 28, for March 4, 2011 MPP DUNLOP: ONTARIO FAMILIES STUCK WITH HYDRO BILL AGAIN |
| Just as Ontario families were learning about another 6% hike to their hydro bills, we now find out that they are also being stuck with an $18 million bill for fines local utilities incurred for overcharging them. Families were being charged an effective interest rate of 60% annually on late payments to their hydro bills, which is illegal under the Criminal Code. But even though the Supreme Court ruled in their favour, families still lose because they are being handed the bill. |
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| SPRINGWATER NEWS FEB 28, for March 3, 2011 MPP DUNLOP: ONTARIO FAMILIES STUCK WITH HYDRO BILL AGAIN |
| Just as Ontario families were learning about another 6% hike to their hydro bills, we now find out that they are also being stuck with an $18 million bill for fines local utilities incurred for overcharging them. Families were being charged an effective interest rate of 60% annually on late payments to their hydro bills, which is illegal under the Criminal Code. But even though the Supreme Court ruled in their favour, families still lose because they are being handed the bill. |
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| MPP DUNLOP INTRODUCES PRIVATE MEMBER’S BILL TO PROTECT TOW TRUCK OPERATORS |
| (Queen’s Park) – Today, PC Community Safety Critic Garfield Dunlop (MPP, Simcoe North) introduced his Private Member’s Bill, the Highway Traffic Amendment Act (Roadside Assistance Vehicles), 2011. |
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| MPP DUNLOP FURIOUS ABOUT LAST MINUTE INVITATION Dunlop given less that 24 hours notice about Rural and Northern Healthcare Consultation in Orillia |
| (Orillia) – Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop is fuming over a last minute invitation to an important consultation event in Orillia dealing with the Rural and Northern Health Care Panel’s Stage 1 Report. The office of the Ontario Minister of Health and Long Term Care, notified Dunlop via e-mail late last night that a consultation team meeting with Ontarians to discuss rural and northern health care would be in Orillia tonight. |
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| MPP DUNLOP PRESSING FOR CONTINUED FUNDING FOR LITERACY |
| The McGuinty Liberal Government is about to close the door on much needed community literacy groups and programs across the province. |
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| MPP DUNLOP SAYS MCGUINTY GOVERNMENT IS CONFUSED Family Literacy Day Marred By Inadequate Funding Of Programs |
| (Orillia) – As area reading councils prepare to recognize Family Literacy Day which is tomorrow January 27th in Canada, Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop is blasting the McGuinty Liberals for ignoring their provincial responsibility to fund literacy programs. |
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| MPP DUNLOP EXTENDS BEST WISHES TO AILEEN CARROLL |
(Orillia): Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop is extending best wishes to Barrie MPP Aileen Carroll.
Dunlop was reacting to word that Carroll has decided not to seek a second term in the upcoming fall provincial election. |
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| MPP DUNLOP PRESSING FOR CONTINUED FUNDING FOR LITERACY
McGuinty closing doors on much needed programs |
(Queen’s Park) - Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop is raising the alarm about the devastating blow the McGuinty Liberal Government is about to inflict on community literacy groups and programs across the province. |
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| Dalton McGuinty says Merry Christmas with record high consumer prices
Ontario recorded the largest increase in consumer prices in November |
| (Orillia): Today Statistics Canada released its November 2010 Consumer Price Index report (CPI). The report, which measures the level of inflation paid on various goods, confirms that while the rest of the country begins to recover, Ontario families were hit by a 3% increase in inflation (vs. 2% in all of Canada), making it harder and harder to live in McGuinty’s Ontario. |
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| MPP DUNLOP: WHY SUDDEN RUSH ON SIMCOE COUNTY GROWTH PLAN? |
| I am feeling outraged that the McGuinty Liberals are trying to push ahead with the Simcoe County Growth Plan before newly elected Municipal Councils are even in place. |
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MPP DUNLOP: DEMANDING EXTENSION FROM MCGUINTY LIBERALS ON SIMCOE COUNTY GROWTH PLAN |
Queen’s Park: Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop is continuing to press the McGuinty Liberals to extend the deadline for a response to the amendments to the Simcoe County Growth Plan. |
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MPP DUNLOP: McGuinty’s Mismanagement is Hurting Ontario Families |
Orillia –Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop says the McGuinty Liberals just cannot break their tax-and-spend habit. Dunlop reacting to the release of the McGuinty Liberals Fall Economic Statement noted that, “Ontario families know they’re paying the price for Dalton McGuinty’s job-killing tax hikes, costly experiments, waste, fiscal mismanagement and scandals. They know hydro rates have gone up 75% under the McGuinty Government, while Ontario has the highest tuition fees and auto insurance premiums in the country.” |
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MPP DUNLOP: MCGUINTY OUT OF TOUCH, November 10, 2010 |
The McGuinty Liberals have once again shown Ontarians how “out of touch” they really are. The Liberals have voted against a motion that would have immediately removed the HST from all Hydro bills. |
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MPP DUNLOP: MCGUINTY OUT OF TOUCH, November 2, 2010 |
Queen’s Park: Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop says the McGuinty Liberals have once again shown Ontarians how “out of touch” they really are. The Liberals have voted against a motion that would have immediately removed the HST from all Hydro bills. |
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MPP DUNLOP: Auditor Confirms McGuinty is a Repeat Offender with eHealth, October 27, 2010 |
A year after being indicted by the Auditor General for wasting $1 billion at eHealth, Ontario’s worst scandal, the Auditor confirmed that Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals have once again been caught wasting healthcare dollars on Liberal insiders and consultants. |
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MPP DUNLOP CALLS ON MCGUINTY TO SUPPORT MS PATIENTS, October 13, 2010 |
I tabled a resolution in the Ontario Legislature last week to pressure the McGuinty Liberal government to conduct clinical trials of the treatment that has produced encouraging results for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients. |
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MPP DUNLOP CALLS ON MCGUINTY TO SUPPORT MS PATIENTS, October 6, 2010 |
(Queen’s Park) – Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop tabled a resolution in the Ontario Legislature today to pressure the McGuinty Liberal government to conduct clinical trials of the treatment that has produced encouraging results for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients. |
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DUNLOP ACCEPTS PETITIONS IN THE FIGHT TO SAVE PENETANGUISHENE SECONDARY, October 5, 2010 |
(Midland) – Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop was recently presented with a petition pressing to keep Penetanguishene Secondary School (PSS) open. |
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Tay Report October 4, 2010 for October 6, 2010
MPP DUNLOP URGES YOU TO CHECK ONTARIO PC HYDRO CALCULATOR |
The Ontario PC Party has launched its online hydro calculator at www.DaltonTheHydroHiker.ca to help hard-working families plan for skyrocketing electricity bills. Families can now enter their current monthly hydro bill into the calculator to see a projection of what it will look like in five years with impact of Dalton McGuinty’s expensive energy experiments. |
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MPP DUNLOP URGES MCGUINTY GOVERNMENT TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION
MIDLAND TORNADO DISASTER RELIEF NEEDED NOW June 24, 2010. |
(Midland) Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop is urging the McGuinty Government to provide funding through the Ontario Disaster Relief Assistance Program, as soon as possible, to assist the Town of Midland and residents hit hard by last night’s Tornado. |
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| MCGUINTY’S HST BRIBE CHEQUES A BLOW TO SINGLES AND SENIORS June 23, 2010 |
(Orillia)Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop is getting an earful from single people, especially single seniors who feel they have been discriminated against by the McGuinty Liberals with the HST rebate cheques. |
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| MCGUINTY FORCES ONTARIANS TO TAKE A HAIR CUT ON CANADA DAY , June 11, 2010. |
(Barrie, ON ) – Today, Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop was joined by PC Critic for Revenue & Government Accountability, Lisa MacLeod, MPP (Nepean-Carleton) in Barrie to highlight the impact McGuinty’s HST will have on Ontario families, seniors and small businesses.
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| MPP DUNLOP NAMED HONORARY MEMBER OPPVA, June 3, 2010 |
(Orillia) – Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop has been named an Honorary Member of the Ontario Provincial Police Veterans’ Association. (OPPVA) |
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DUNLOP UPSET ABOUT LIBERAL TACTICS TO SMEAR HST CRITICS June 2, 2010 |
Senior McGuinty Liberal cabinet ministers are traveling to PC ridings and stitching together desperate last-minute staged meetings in order to launch drive-by smears against Ontario PC MPPS and defect public anger at their looming HST tax grab. |
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Simcoe North Seniors to Lose Big Thanks to Dalton McGuinty’s HST |
Today marks the beginning of Seniors Month. It also marks the one-month countdown until Dalton McGuinty’s HST tax grab begins punishing seniors who are already struggling to make ends meet. |
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| McGuinty Admits HST Will Cost Ontario Families |
MPP Dunlop continues to fight “outrageous liberal tax grab”
Orillia: When confronted with Statistics Canada evidence yesterday, Premier Dalton McGuinty was forced to admit what Progressive Conservatives and Ontario families have known all along: The Controversial Liberal Tax Grab will cost them thousands more each year! |
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| Springwater News, April 15, 2010 |
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I am deeply concerned with the McGuinty government’s announcement to eliminate $750 million in payments from drug companies to pharmacies. Pharmacies across Ontario will suffer as a result of this cut. |
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MPP DUNLOP: No April Fool’s Joke As HST Just 3 Months Away
Dunlop calls for at minimum the removal of HST on fuel & utilities
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(Orillia) –Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop is reminding all Ontarians that the countdown is on to McGuinty’s Tax Grab Day! Three months from now there will be an extra 8% added to our daily spending, as a result of the largest tax hike in Ontario’s history imposed by the McGuinty Liberals. |
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