Norfolk residents will pay McGuinty’s health tax twice
Health tax should be scrapped outright: Barrett

Port Dover-MPP Toby Barrett today renewed his call to scrap the health tax, after hearing that Norfolk Power customers will be paying the illegal tax themselves, and then paying again for the utility’s employees.

“The so-called 'health' tax represented the largest tax increase in the history of Ontario, but to save face, Premier McGuinty called it a ‘premium’,” Barrett said. “By falsely labelling the health tax a premium, he has put local taxpayers on the hook for employees at Norfolk Power.”

“This further reinforces the need for truth in taxes,” Barrett continued. “A Premier can’t hike taxes, and then run around the province disguising it as a ‘premium’.”

Barrett’s remarks echoed the comments John Tory made yesterday in Ottawa, where the PC Leader again called for the elimination of the punitive, regressive 'health' tax. All told, eleven organizations around the province will be forced to repay employees for this tax.

“A PC Government will eliminate this tax and put this money back where it belongs - in the pockets of taxpayers across the province,” Barrett concluded. “Under Dalton McGuinty, people get to pay it twice.”

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MPP Toby Barrett at: (519) 428-0446 or

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