Liberal Manufacturing Report

Thursday, 07 August 2008
Queen’s Park - Ten months of work on a report that was supposed to assist Ontario’s hard-hit manufacturing sector has turned out to be much ado about nothing for the McGuinty Liberals, said NDP Leader Howard Hampton.
“There’s nothing here,” said NDP Leader Howard Hampton. “Seventy pages of fluff isn’t going to help the tens of thousands of manufacturing workers who have lost their jobs since Dalton McGuinty came to office. This so-called report is an insult to the workers who lost their jobs. It’s no wonder there were no photo-ops when this report came out,” said Hampton.
Shortly after the 2007 provincial election, backbench Liberal MPP David Ramsay was asked to write the report looking into the challenges and opportunities facing Ontario’s manufacturing sector. The report was hailed in the 2008 budget as proof of the government’s commitment to finding solutions to the manufacturing crisis that has now claimed more than 200,000 jobs across Ontario.
Under the cloak of a long summer weekend, the report mysteriously appeared late last Friday afternoon.
“The so-called strategy outlined in the report suggests that a marketing strategy is the solution to Ontario’s manufacturing woes. Maybe David Ramsay should have consulted with the workers getting the pink slips - they know all too well that real economic policies create jobs, not gimmicky marketing campaigns,” said Hampton

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NDP Nomination meeting

Brant NDP Provincial Nomination

TUESDAY JULY 17TH, 2007 at 7:30 PM

Location: Brantford District Labour Centre
Costs: FREE, All are welcome.
Directions: 1100 Clarence St. South, near colborne st.

See map here http://www.brantndp.ca/ Click on the nomination text.

Registration begins at 7pm, the meeting starts at 7:30.

All members of the NDP living within the riding of Brant are entitled to vote
1) If you are a current member and became a member on or before June 17th 2007
2) If you last paid for your membership in 2006 you can renew at the meeting.
$25 for employed, $5 for everyone else.

For more information
519 751 9111
email: events@brantndp.ca
website: brantndp.ca

Duration: Should there be two or more people standing for the nomination, the meeting is expected to conclude by 9 pm.

You are invited to: Come to the meeting and feel welcome to bring family and friends.

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