For immediate release:
November 1, 2006
  
Barrett condemns government health care mismanagement
Says tax dollars better spent on emergency rooms than on Liberal ad firms

Queen’s Park—MPP Toby Barrett offered constructive alternatives to wasteful government spending, today at the Ontario Legislature.

“Dalton McGuinty tried to confuse people about long wait times, by spending $2 million on inaccurate, partisan advertisements,” Barrett told the Legislature. “That $2 million could have been better spent putting doctors in Emergency Rooms for an extra 11,764 hours on duty.”

“The $90 million wasted closing CCACs (Community Care Access Centres) could have been used to start upgrading 13,298 long-term-care beds and to increase the food allowance to seniors to $7 a day,” Barrett continued. “At present, the allowance is less than you get in prison.”

The Ontario Legislature spent Wednesday afternoon debating an Opposition motion against the ongoing waste and mismanagement of Ontario’s tax dollars.

“People in Haldimand-Norfolk-Brant work hard for their money,” Barrett said outside the Legislative Chamber. “Taxes are meant to pay for services and infrastructure, not luxury items for the Premier’s advertising buddies or fancy furniture for the newest cohort of health bureaucrats.”

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For more information, please contact
MPP Toby Barrett at: (519) 428-0446 or
1-800-903-8629