Here is a sample of promises broken since Dalton McGuinty was sworn in as Premier of Ontario in October 2003:

1. “I won’t raise your taxes.”

2. Balance the Budget every year of their mandate

3. Balance the Budget by 2007

4. Roll back tolls on Highway 407

5. Fund medically-necessary health care services (de-listed eye exams, chiropractic care and physiotherapy)

6. Not add to the province’s debt

7. Stop 6,600 houses on the Oak Ridges Moraine

8. Abide by the Balanced Budget Law

9. Cap hydro rates at 4.3¢ per kilowatt hour until 2006

10. Allow all non-cabinet MPPs to criticize and vote against government legislation

11. Provide autism treatment beyond the age of six

12. Reduce auto insurance rates by 10% within 90 days

13. Reduce private consultants

14. Cancel P3 hospitals in Brampton and Ottawa

15. Call a public inquiry into Ontario’s meat inspection system

16. Withdraw government appeal on the Richmond Landfill

17. Make Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer an independent officer of the legislature

18. Respect the outcome of the Kawartha Lakes referendum on amalgamation

19. Provide better mental health care

20. Divert 60% of municipal garbage to recycling by 2005

21. Close “private” MRI and CT clinics

22. Stop school closings

23. “Immediately” establish an Arts and Culture Advisory Council

24. Provide adequate, multi-year funding for hospitals

25. Hire over 1,000 teachers a year

26. Hire 1,000 new police officers

27. Close coal-fired electricity plants by 2007

28. Hire 100 new parole and probation officers

29. Double the number of apprentices

30. Create tens of thousands of new child care spaces

31. End the “clawback” of the federal Child Tax Credit

32. Build 20,000 new affordable housing units

33. Spend “every penny” of the new Health Tax on health care

34. Cut Ministers’ pay for running a deficit

35. Eliminate barriers to foreign-trained professionals within one year

36. Require trades and professions to accept qualified immigrants within one year

37. Repeal the Tenant Protection Act within one year

38. Establish a Standing Committee on Education to hold yearly hearings

39. Liberal promises would cost $5.9 billion

40. Provide legal rights to victims of crime

41. Hire 8,000 nurses by the end of 2007

42. Make the Ministry of Agriculture a lead ministry

43. Invest in rural roads and bridges

44. Support the province’s cities

45. Make sure health dollars are being spent wisely

46. Stop the waste of taxpayers’ dollars

47. Guarantee stable, long-term funding for our rural communities

Here is a sample of promises broken since Dalton McGuinty was sworn in as Premier of Ontario in October 2003:

1. “I won’t raise your taxes.”

2. Balance the Budget every year of their mandate

3. Balance the Budget by 2007

4. Roll back tolls on Highway 407

5. Fund medically-necessary health care services (de-listed eye exams, chiropractic care and physiotherapy)

6. Not add to the province’s debt

7. Stop 6,600 houses on the Oak Ridges Moraine

8. Abide by the Balanced Budget Law

9. Cap hydro rates at 4.3¢ per kilowatt hour until 2006

10. Allow all non-cabinet MPPs to criticize and vote against government legislation

11. Provide autism treatment beyond the age of six

12. Reduce auto insurance rates by 10% within 90 days

13. Reduce private consultants

14. Cancel P3 hospitals in Brampton and Ottawa

15. Call a public inquiry into Ontario’s meat inspection system

16. Withdraw government appeal on the Richmond Landfill

17. Make Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer an independent officer of the legislature

18. Respect the outcome of the Kawartha Lakes referendum on amalgamation

19. Provide better mental health care

20. Divert 60% of municipal garbage to recycling by 2005

21. Close “private” MRI and CT clinics

22. Stop school closings

23. “Immediately” establish an Arts and Culture Advisory Council

24. Provide adequate, multi-year funding for hospitals

25. Hire over 1,000 teachers a year

26. Hire 1,000 new police officers

27. Close coal-fired electricity plants by 2007

28. Hire 100 new parole and probation officers

29. Double the number of apprentices

30. Create tens of thousands of new child care spaces

31. End the “clawback” of the federal Child Tax Credit

32. Build 20,000 new affordable housing units

33. Spend “every penny” of the new Health Tax on health care

34. Cut Ministers’ pay for running a deficit

35. Eliminate barriers to foreign-trained professionals within one year

36. Require trades and professions to accept qualified immigrants within one year

37. Repeal the Tenant Protection Act within one year

38. Establish a Standing Committee on Education to hold yearly hearings

39. Liberal promises would cost $5.9 billion

40. Provide legal rights to victims of crime

41. Hire 8,000 nurses by the end of 2007

42. Make the Ministry of Agriculture a lead ministry

43. Invest in rural roads and bridges

44. Support the province’s cities

45. Make sure health dollars are being spent wisely

46. Stop the waste of taxpayers’ dollars

47. Guarantee stable, long-term funding for our rural communities