(Queen’s Park) – Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop, predicting that the new McGuinty government will be a “one-term wonder”, today characterized the two-day Liberal Caucus Retreat at Queen’s Park as a desperate measure by Dalton to keep his troops in line as they prepare to retreat from even more election promises.

“We all know what happens to a one-hit wonder – you never hear a song from that band again. “With their broken record of broken promises, four years from now, the Liberals will be a ‘one-term wonder’ – you’ll never hear from them again.”

“I think the Liberals have gathered to discuss which of their provincial, local and stakeholder election promises they will break next, and how they will spin their way out of them,” added Dunlop. “McGuinty’s government is already drowning in a sea of broken promises with no lifeboat in sight.”

Dunlop voiced his concern that new “potential promises” are emerging every day that were never part of the “Liberal Plan” that brought Dalton McGuinty to power.

He cited an example of one of McGuinty’s most recent “potential promises” – a return to the use of photo radar.

“You know this government is in trouble when the Premier and one of his Ministers can’t even get their stories or their priorities straight,” said Dunlop. “One day, the Premier admits that photo radar is a revenue generator for the provincial coffers. The next day, his Transportation Minister says money collected from photo radar would go directly to municipalities. Meanwhile, the Liberals are totally ignoring their election promise to give 2 cents per litre of the provincial gas tax to municipalities for public transit.”

Contacts:
Garfield Dunlop
(705) 327-4500 (cell)