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2010

Ontario Opposition Calls for Tax Relief, Spending Restraint
in 2010 Budget

MPPs hearing taxpayer frustration and health concerns in Kingston
(Kingston) – As province-wide pre-budget consultations continue this week, Opposition members are calling on Dalton McGuinty and his Liberal Government to put the brakes on their reckless spending habits and provide tax relief to hard working Ontario families and businesses in his 2010 budget. [Read More]

Farm issues to dominate London hearings
London – Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett anticipates fulsome debate today at pre-budget hearings in London, as a number of farm groups bring forward their concerns.[Read More]

Tired of red tape?
MPP Barrett encourages regulation victims to share their stories
Simcoe – Opposition Environment Critic Toby Barrett is inviting farms and businesses to share their experiences with Ontario government job-killing red tape..[Read More]

Premier proposing year-round daycare in schools
Simcoe – One day after Premier McGuinty announced all-day everyday kindergarten, he is now talking about running a year-round daycare for four and five year-olds that would cover statutory holidays, professional development days and summer holidays.[Read More]

Can Ontario afford all-day everyday kindergarten?
Simcoe – Today’s announcement that 35,000 Ontario kids will be enrolled in all-day everyday kindergarten has Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett shaking his head. [Read More]

Have your say on Ontario’s budget
MPP Barrett invites presenters to pre-budget consultations
(Simcoe) – Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett is encouraging concerned taxpayers to raise their voice when government holds pre-budget consultations throughout the province next month.[Read More]

Barrett to host New Year’s Levee in Dunnville
Dunnville – Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett is inviting constituents to attend his annual New Year’s levee.[Read More]

Barrett to host New Year’s Levee in Port Rowan
Port Rowan – Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett is inviting constituents to attend his annual New Year’s levee.[Read More]

More Caledonia land dispute costs unveiled
How much more do taxpayers have to pay?
Queen’s Park – Two weeks after forcing the McGuinty Government to admit paying utility bills at Caledonia’s Douglas Creek Estates (DCE), Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett informed the Legislature of further costs. [Read More]

Barrett catches government flat-footed on highway tax
Queen’s Park – The day after forcing the largest sales tax increase in the history of Ontario, McGuinty Cabinet Ministers appeared confused by questions in the Legislature on plans to implement tolls on public highways. [Read More]

Government ignores security risk at Caledonia hydro transformer station
McGuinty condones criminal behaviour: Barrett
Queen’s Park – Just over a week after MPP Toby Barrett asked the McGuinty government about work to prevent further security breaches at the Caledonia transformer station, the Haldimand Norfolk representative reported on another security incident while government slept at the switch.
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One day of HST hearings = absurd
Queen’s Park -- Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King.[Read More]

Barrett pulls all-nighter in Legislature to protest HST
HN MPP stands on principle against unlistening government
Queens Park - MPP Toby Barrett was one of four Ontario PC's to stage a sit-in in the Legislature to help back their call for public hearings on McGuinty's Harmonized Sales Tax..[Read More]

Opposition MPP’s stage vocal protest to demand public HST hearings
Queens Park – The Ontario Progressive Conservative Caucus stepped up their protest to demand public hearings on the government’s hated Harmonized Sales Tax scheme to another level this afternoon.[Read More]

MEMBERS’ STATEMENTSMr. Toby Barrett: On Friday, I joined people from across Haldimand county, Ontario, Canada and beyond in marking the passing of Honourable Justice Dr. T. David Marshall. [Read More]

More McGuinty deceit surrounding DCE power bills
Queen’s Park – Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett pointed out some more McGuinty trickery last week in the Ontario Legislature, surrounding the water and power bills at Douglas Creek Estates. [Read More]

One public HST hearing…in Toronto…a joke - Barrett
Queen’s Park – Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett calls what the McGuinty government is proposing as public hearings for the Harmonized Sales Tax – one day, in Toronto – a complete joke. [Read More]

It’s 3 ½ years and still no answers on abandoned Caledonia hydro towers
Government plays hot potato with query – still no response
Queen’s Park – It was back to the future for MPP Toby Barrett as he once again was met with non-answers and government hyperbole to three-and-a-half year old questions he reiterated in the Ontario Legislature today.[Read More]

Nine months of inaction on US Steel: Barrett
Demands Minister, “Act Now
Queen’s Park – Nine months after first asking questions in the Legislature about the US Steel labour disruption Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett is wondering when government will begin to act on the “solution” former Minister Bryant promised.[Read More]

Over 5,000 call for Caledonia inquiry
Petition calls for Fantino’s resignation
Queen’s Park – Petitions with over 5,000 names presented by MPP Toby Barrett in the Ontario Legislature have reignited the call for a public inquiry into policing and land disputes in the Caledonia area. [Read More]

Opposition protests HST at Queens Park
Government refuses to listen so opposition stages debate boycott!
Queen’s Park – If Government refuse to hear the voices of those opposed to its harmonized sales tax (HST) then what’s the point of debate?
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Ontario confirms paying militants’ hydro bills
Minister resorts to personal attacks, accusations to Barrett queries
Queen’s Park – After questioning in the house and resulting pandemonium led to an embarrassing admission in front of CHCH cameras, the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs resorted to exaggeration and character assassination when confronted once more on government’s practice of paying bills for occupiers at Douglas Creek Estates in Caledonia. [Read More]

Why is McGuinty paying militants’ hydro bill in Caledonia?
Mute Minister leaves Barrett to answer own question
Queen’s Park – On February 28, 2006, a subdivision in Caledonia – Douglas Creek Estates – was forcibly occupied. Since that time, this property and the remaining house on the site has served as a base for intimidation, harassment, trespassing, assault and attempted murder. [Read More]

Hey Mr. McGuinty: not so fast!
Panicked government resorts to procedural tricks to ram through hated HST
Queens Park – Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett is asking government “what’s the rush?” as McGuinty and his gang race to force their unpopular harmonized sales tax into law.[Read More]

MCGUINTY LIBERALS BOW TO PUBLIC PRESSURE: MORE HST EXEMPTIONS
PC REVENUE CRITIC LISA MACLEOD

For Immediate Release November 12th, 2009
(Queen’s Park) – Reacting to public pressure and demands from the Official Opposition, Dalton McGuinty will be exempting the HST on food and beverage items under $4..[Read More]

Don’t let government shut you out of Animal Health Act
Queen’s Park – Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett is encouraging farmers and others potentially impacted by government’s Bill-204, Animal Health Act, to make their voices heard.[Read More]

JUST THE FACTS: HST IS STILL A $3 BILLION TAX GRAB ON CONSUMERS
(Queen’s Park) – A report commissioned by Ontario’s Liberal government on the effects of the HST contradicts other studies done by TD Bank and the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, says MPP Lisa MacLeod the Official Opposition Revenue Critic.[Read More]

Environment Minister unaware on toxic reg. impact to Ontario food
Minister out of touch with crippling effect of government direction
Queen’s Park – “I don’t know exactly what this member is talking about.”[Read More]

Ontario PC’s Lead Rally Demanding eHealth Inquiry
Several hundred Ontario residents rally in Windsor
Earlier this evening, PC MPPs Toby Barrett (Haldimand-Norfolk) and Bob Bailey (Sarnia-Lambton) led a rally of several hundred residents from across Ontario, ... [Read More]

Barrett decries higher taxes for small business
Minister calls blue box fee hike for business, “good economic policy”
Queen’s Park – Higher business taxes apparently make good economic policy according to the McGuinty Government. [Read More]

McGuinty belt tightening call too little, too late
‘Difficult choices’ for Ontario after six years of mismanagement
Simcoe – As Ontario’s government and taxpayers stare down the barrel of a $24.7 Billion projected deficit, Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett queries where the McGuinty Government’s concern for the bottom line was when it really mattered. [Read More]

Canada’s Worst Government Now Has Canada’s Worst Deficit
Queen’s Park – In the wake of a billion dollar eHealth scandal, the McGuinty government has announced that Ontario’s 2009/2010 deficit may ring in at a record $24.7 billion. [Read More]

Lights Are on, No Thanks to The Minister
QUEEN’S PARK – Today Ernie Hardeman, PC Critic for Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, and Toby Barrett, MPP for Haldimand-Norfolk, questioned the Minister why she wouldn’t step up to support Ontario’s hog producers, such as Wayne Bartels whose hydro was shut off last week. [Read More]

Time for a public inquiry into eHealth scandal
Simcoe – Far too many questions still remain about the serious, and potentially criminal, abuses of taxpayer money that occurred with the McGuinty eHealth scandal. The Official Opposition has concluded that only an independent, impartial public inquiry will provide the answers Ontarians want and deserve. [Read More]

HOG PRODUCERS LOSE FARMS WHILE BAND PLAYS ON
QUEEN’S PARK – Today in the Ontario Legislature Ernie Hardeman, Oxford MPP and PC Critic for Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs questioned the Minister of Agriculture on how she could afford luxuries on the taxpayer dollars while hog producers are struggling to keep their farms.[Read More]

Environmental Commissioner underlines rural concerns
Simcoe – Haldimand Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett says the release of the Environmental Commissioner’s annual report points to a series of issues impacting rural Ontario..[Read More]

HST hits just keep on comin’
Hockey families, CFIB, OREA latest to bear 13 per cent impact
Queen’s Park – The costly impact of Dalton’s sales tax gambit is getting a failing grade from consumers and businesses alike.[Read More]

DAVE LEVAC PUTS SPECIAL INTERESTS AHEAD OF STANDING UP FOR FAMILIES IN BRANT
QUEEN’S PARK – Yesterday Brant Member of Provincial Parliament Dave Levac proved just how far he is prepared to go to curry favour from Dalton McGuinty.  [Read More]

Where is the accountability for OLG scandals?
by Toby Barrett, MPP
It’s disturbing on our return to Queens Park to see government bungling two spending scandals in which millions have been squandered by Ontario Lottery and Gaming (OLG), and at e-health. The difficulties at OLG represent the latest in a trail of missteps dating back some four years now.
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Debate on cheap smokes heats up the House
Barrett debates his Tobacco Tax Reduction Act
Queen’s Park – The McGuinty government is not set to slash taxes on legal tobacco to dismantle the illegal/contraband market. [Read More]

Another day, another two resignations at e-health
Queens Park – One day before an auditor general report on the scandal plagued e-health government agency, two Liberal appointees are getting out of Dodge! [Read More]

Ontario caps economy and trades away jobs - Barrett
Cap and trade bill a moot provincial response to global problem

Queen’s Park – “Think globally, act globally…”

That was the message from Opposition Environment Critic Toby Barrett in addressing the McGuinty government’s cap and trade legislation at Queens Park today.[Read More]

McGuinty coal closure costs 115 local jobs
Government announcement adds insult to injury - Barrett
Simcoe –MPP Toby Barrett questions why the McGuinty Government would wait until rural Ontario’s economic prospects seem bleakest to slash close to 20 per cent of the jobs at OPG Nanticoke. [Read More]

Barrett to introduce Tobacco Tax Reduction Act
Queen’s Park – Tax cuts at the provincial and federal levels along with education and enforcement are the recipe for success in the fight against illegal tobacco, according to Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett.[Read More]

HUDAK ANNOUNCES NEW CRITIC PORTFOLIOS
Hudak retains Barrett as Environment Critic
(Queen’s Park) – Leader of the Official Opposition, Tim Hudak (MPP Niagara West - Glanbrook) is pleased to announce that Toby Barrett MPP for Haldimand-Norfolk will remain Environment Critic for the Official Opposition. [Read More]

Barrett steamed over McGuinty dropping third party review on e-Health
Simcoe – Local MPP Toby Barrett says that news of Health Minister David Caplan dropping the third party review of the e-health scandal is just more of the same from the McGuinty government. [Read More]

Opposition MPP secures literacy funding
Simcoe – Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett commends PC colleague Garfield Dunlop for his persistence regarding literacy funding. [Read More]

Illegal Occupation of Privately-owned Farmland II
Dear Premier:
On June 12th I wrote to you concerning an illegal smoke shack occupying a privately-owned farm not owned by the occupiers. [Read More]

Barrett backing Hudak law against illegal occupations
Simcoe: Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett endorses Leadership Candidate Tim Hudak’s plan for a renewed focus on the rule of law in Ontario.[Read More]

Illegal Occupation of Privately-owned Farmland
Further to my communication to you and various Cabinet Ministers on June 11th, 2009,  I continue to be contacted by a number of constituents – some too intimidated to reveal their identity – with respect to the construction of the ‘smoke shack’ / ‘information centre’ on a privately-owned farm.[Read More]

Barrett renews call for property rights in Ontario
Rural MPP introduces third private members bill to restore rights
Simcoe – As the McGuinty government rushed to force through partisan bills before the legislative session closed, MPP Toby Barrett once again proposed to restore property/land rights for all Ontarians. [Read More]

MPP Barrett presents Nanticoke nuclear petitions to Legislature
Queen’s Park – Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett stood on behalf of 1,000 area residents to read in petitions regarding the Bruce Nuclear proposal at Nanticoke.[Read More]

No plans for Ontario to purchase electricity from Nanticoke Bruce Nuclear – Minister
Queen’s Park
– Ontario’s Energy Minister has gone a step further in underlining the province’s position on the Bruce Nuclear proposal at Nanticoke – Ontario does not encourage the project, nor does it plan on buying power from it. [Read More]

Bailey and Barrett go to bat for industry
Queen’s Park – Majority rule was the rule of the day in General Government Committee yesterday as government members voted down every motion to make their toxic reduction strategy a more effective, risk and science based policy. [Read More]

When will McGuinty enforce the rule of law?
Queen’s Park – When is the McGuinty government going to commence to enforce the rule of law in the province of Ontario? [Read More]

Three weeks later – still no plan
Government fiddles as GM dealerships shut doors
Queen’s Park – Less than a month after Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett asked what the Ontario government is doing to keep car dealerships open in Ontario, General Motors’ closure announcements have revealed the answer – nothing!.[Read More]

Learn how to write a winning Trillium application
Simcoe – Each year there are many local groups who apply to the Ontario Trillium Foundation for capital grants. Applying is a huge undertaking and can be daunting for those who have little experience writing.[Read More]

Dombrowsky maintains tobacco transition should be funded by usersQueen’s Park – Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett ruffled the feathers of Ag Minister Leona Dombrowsky today when he asked how her government has bungled tobacco policy so badly.[Read More]

Everything old is new again
Barrett suggests it’s time to return to the rain barrel
Simcoe – Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett thinks it may be time to return to the days of rain barrels. [Read More]

Barrett joins call – hands off our hospitals!
Queen’s Park – Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett joined members of the Opposition and 2,000 protestors outside Queens Park in demanding the McGuinty Government protect hospital services in Ontario.[Read More]

McGuinty Ministers ‘duck and run’ Barrett’s tobacco questions
Queen’s Park – Ontario’s Minister of Health Promotion skirted a report that indicates smoking in our part of Ontario has increased by 33 per cent. [Read More]

More bad news for car industry
Barrett questions what’s being done for dealerships in Ontario
Queen’s Park – What is the Ontario government doing to keep car dealerships open? Will Ontario reconsider a sales tax holiday on vehicle sales? [Read More]

Barrett confirms: Grand River land disputes not on McGuinty radar
Queen’s Park – Dalton McGuinty was caught flat-footed this morning when local MPP Toby Barrett asked what the government had negotiated in return for the 378 acres of land being transferred to Haudenosaunee Six Nations.
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Gym membership tax defeats the purpose
McGuinty Sales Tax Penalizes Those Battling the Bulge
Queen's Park -- The McGuinty sales tax will defeat some of the government's very own initiatives on active living and healthy food choices, according to Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett. [Read More]

Environment Critic welcomes debate on toxic reduction in Ontario
Queen’s Park
– “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”
That from Opposition Environment Critic Toby Barrett today in the Ontario legislature in noting that government toxics reduction legislation is following the lead of the PC Made-in-Ontario plan to reduce toxins, announced in 2007. [Read More]

WHY WON’T LIBERAL MPPs STAND UP FOR LOCAL TRANSIT?
McGuinty makes $9 billion Toronto announcement – what’s in it for small-town Ontario?(Queen’s Park) – Ontario Progressive Conservative MPPs today demanded to know where the transit money for small-town and rural Ontario is after the McGuinty Liberals yesterday made a $9 billion transit announcement that included only Toronto. [Read More]

Singles punished by harmonized tax
Queen's Park – The McGuinty government is attempting to chase the poisonous Harmonized Sales Tax of 13 per cent with paltry rebate cheques..[Read More]

Barrett backing Hudak
Queen's Park -- Tim Hudak has what it takes to become Leader of the Ontario PC Party, according to his colleague from Haldimand-Norfolk, Toby Barrett.[Read More]

Barrett laments Ontario’s historic have-not status designation
Queen’s Park – April Fool’s Day hijinx were on full display in the Legislature as Haldimand Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett’s questions about Ontario’s official designation as a have-not province were met with some diversionary responses from the government. [Read More]

Budget speech and the actual budget -- two different things
Queen’s Park – Finance Minister Dwight Duncan seemed bewildered following a lesson from MPP Toby Barrett on the difference between the budget speech and the actual budget itself.[Read More]

Ontario budget leaves farmers in the cold….again
Queens Park - Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett could only shake his head as the McGuinty Government once again ignored the requests of Ontario farmers at budget time.[Read More]

No Harmony in Tax: Barrett HST another massive tax grab
Queen’s Park – According to local MPP Toby Barrett, Premier McGuinty has once again proven he is a serial promise breaker with the introduction of Harmonized Sales Taxes. [Read More]

Ontario budget rejects Sales Tax holiday for vehicle sales
McGuinty Government, “just doesn’t get it”
Queen’s Park – Hundreds of names on petitions, letters to the minister, requests from auto dealers, news conferences, and continued pressure from MPP Toby Barrett... [Read More]

Barrett gives Minister Watson a lesson on Grand River flooding
Municipal Affairs Minister took aim at local MPP
Queen’s Park
– MPP Toby Barrett fired back at Ontario’s Minister of Municipal Affairs for an unprovoked attack on Halidmand-Norfolk’s representative.[Read More]

Gutting funding for deadstock leaves farmers hanging
Queens Park – Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett stood in front of a group of farmers and landowners outside Queens Park today to call for government action on the growing deadstock crisis. [Read More]

TURN LEMONS INTO LEMONADE, PC CAUCUS SAYS
Budget should include real relief to help Ontario consumers and struggling auto sector (Queen’s Park) – An incentive program to get old cars off the road and stimulate sales of new cars is just what Ontario’s economy and environment need, members of the Ontario PC Caucus said today. [Read More]

Have your say on Green Energy “power and tax grab” Act
Simcoe – Those with concerns on government’s Green Energy Act and its inherent plan to fast track energy projects while forcing energy audits on unsuspecting customers have a chance to make their voices heard.[Read More]

Government MPP’s fall in line to oppose Caledonia inquiry
Queen’s Park – Yesterday the Liberal majority fulfilled Premier McGuinty’s presumptive demands yesterday in standing against MPP Barrett’s, “Truth About Caledonia Act, 2009”, and its call for a public inquiry.[Read More]

PC Caucus joins Barrett’s call for sales tax holiday on new cars and trucks Queens Park – MPP Barrett’s call for a tax holiday on new cars and truck took centre stage today as PC Caucus members held a news conference to push government to act on the proposal. [Read More]

Government Minister becomes indignant, rude when pressed on plan for US Steel jobs Queen’s Park – Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett clearly struck a sore spot with Economic Development Minister Michael Bryant this morning when pressing him for answers on the idling of US Steel jobs in Nanticoke and Hamilton. [Read More]

Province reiterates land disputes are federal, but intervenes in County’s Official Plan Queen’s Park – According to Ontario’s Aboriginal Affairs Minister, Brad Duguid, the Caledonia land dispute is a federal issue. [Read More]

Barrett to McGuinty: Where's the plan; where's the action on U.S. Steel jobs? Queen's Park -- Mismanagement of the economy by the McGuinty government has forced one of the best in the steel working world to close its doors in Hamilton and Nanticoke. [Read More]

Will pesticides become part of underground economy?
Queen’s Park – As the McGuinty Liberals get set to release the final set of rules under the Cosmetic Pesticides Act, local MPP and PC Environment Critic Toby Barrett warns of the creation of a new underground market.[Read More]

MCGUINTY LIBERALS MUST COME CLEAN ON GREEN PC MPPs want truth on energy prices, why the Liberals won't hold public hearings
(Queen's Park) - Dalton McGuinty and George Smitherman are not being up front or honest about the financial impact of their new Green Energy Act for the average Ontario family, Progressive Conservative Energy Critic John Yakabuski (Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke) said today. [Read More]

Pesticide ban will cost even more jobs in Ontario
Queen’s Park - Haldimand-Norfolk MPP and Environment Critic Toby Barrett continues to urge the McGuinty government to go back to the drawing board with regard to its pesticide regulations.[Read More]

Inquiry to seek “the truth” about Caledonia
MPP introduces Private Members Bill call for inquiry
Queens Park – Three years of unanswered questions, and government inaction on area land disputes have led to MPP Toby Barrett’s call for a full public inquiry into all aspects of the ongoing debacle.[Read More]

What’s Ontario’s tobacco plan?
Queen’s Park – It would seem from responses provided by Agriculture Minister Leona Dombrowsky, the McGuinty government feels they have adequately helped tobacco country over the past few years.[Read More]

Pick up investment fraud info at Barrett’s officeSimcoe – MPP Barrett is encouraging current and potential investors to contact his office for an Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) investment package..[Read More]

Hang on to your wallet
MPP Barrett hosting seminar on investment fraud
Simcoe -- Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett wants you to protect your hard-earned dollars from criminals, and he's giving you the know-how this Thursday.[Read More]

Time to determine the truth about Caledonia - Barrett
Private Members Bill calls for inquiry into land disputes
Caledonia – When the Legislature resumes mid-February government will receive official notice of MPP Toby Barrett’s proposed legislation calling for an inquiry into the now three years of land disputes that have marred the landscape of Haldimand, Brant, Brantford and Six Nations.[Read More]

Look Around – do you know someone deserving of the Order of Ontario? Simcoe Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett is encouraging people to find that person who goes above and beyond and nominate them for the Order of Ontario.[Read More]

Investment Scams: How to protect yourself
Simcoe – Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett, in conjunction with the Ontario Securities Commission, will be hosting a discussion about the latest investment frauds and scams.[Read More]

“Education Premier” fails York University students MPP Barrett echoes call for recall of Legislature
Simcoe – McGuinty’s refusal to act on the York University strike is victimizing students while holding their education, graduate plans, financial resources and employment opportunities hostage.[Read More]

McGuinty shuts out farmers, small businessand others from pesticide consultationSimcoe – The McGuinty government’s handling of pesticide regulations seems to be going from bad to worse.[Read More]

Barrett acknowledges Caledonia petition as, “significant development”
Caledonia – MPP Toby Barrett is joining over 1, 000 area residents in signing a locally initiated petition calling for an inquiry into justice issues surrounding the Caledonia land dispute.[Read More]

Barrett backs continued strong Tory leadership Simcoe – Haldimand-Norfolk PC MPP Toby Barrett underlined his continued support for John Tory as leader of the Ontario Conservatives.[Read More]