Making the top one per cent of earners pay more would allow the government to remove the provincial portion of HST on home heating, create 4,000 new child care spaces and boost payouts to Ontarians on the Ontario Disability Support Plan by one per cent, New Democrat Leader Andrea Horwath said Tuesday.
“If we have to choose between a working mom who needs help with the kids or a CEO who needs help with a seven-figure paycheque, let’s help that mom,” said Horwath.
“The choice should be very easy.”
Horwath said she is not “drawing a line in the sand” on the proposal but wants to see how the Liberal government reacts. She warned NDP support for the budget does hang in the balance on overall changes McGuinty is willing to make.
The government had no immediate response.
It was the first of several proposals the party will make in hopes of getting McGuinty’s minority government to change its budget presented last week and win NDP support to avoid an election so soon after last October’s vote.
“Ontario’s not going to prosper if households are falling further behind,” Horwath said.
Earlier Tuesday, McGuinty was at a Roots garment factory in north Toronto and said he hopes to avoid “an election that is unnecessary and very expensive” and asked for a “commitment to stability and certainty” from opposition parties.
He has repeatedly said no new taxes or spending measures would be acceptable but that he would “listen to any reasonable proposals…we’re not prepared to entertain any proposals for new spending.”
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Source: Star
Author: Rob Ferguson
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