Waste in the PC Election Platform: Tim Hudak's Non-Existent Plan for a Balanced Ontario Budget

This video is part of the blog entry: http://blog.paulmckeever.ca/2011/05/25/ontarios-liberal-tory-deficit-fighting...

About this video: Tim Hudak and his Progressive Conservatives do not have a plan to balance the Ontario budget. When asked for how he would balance the budget (Ontario's currently running a $16.7 billion annual budget deficit), he falls back on a pre-prepared script that is utterly ambiguous, equivocal, and disingenuous. Watch, as Tim Hudak attempts to convince multiple audiences, over many months, that he would somehow slay a deficit and pay for his promised $1.2B in HST electricity exemptions by finding "waste in the system" and by "looking" at Agencies, Boards and Commissions. And note: on May 24, 2011, Hudak announced that he would increase health care spending by $6.1B. That means he would have to find a total of at least $24B in "waste" in the system to balance the budget.

Verdict: The Hudak PCs have no credible plan to balance the budget. PCs are essentially implying that they will continue running deficits, just like the McGuinty Liberals.

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[Canaboy12]

they should make cuts to media thats useless..as well, police fire etc. expensive lawyers. etc//then redirect into better transit/law reform and legislature reform commissions etc...

[dwayners13]

@dwayners13 I made a mistake the Tories only lied about a 5 Million dollar deficit.

[dwayners13]

Just remember, at the end of the 'Common Sense Revolution' Harris & the Tories claimed they had balanced the budget, yet it was discovered there was a 5 Billion dollar deficit. Entire hospitals were closed, nurses were let go, essential services were often cut so thin people actually died waiting for them. Remember Walkerton, that was due to Tory cuts. You want that Ontario again, vote PC, but God help you if you get sick or need a service that falls under the provincial government.

[zentonil]

What a creep. I hate career politicians.

[CoheedMars90]

Guys, he's being honest to god.

[lonelytrixter]

Yawn.... The EHealth situation was bad, but you can't use that as an example for what you'd cut because it has already finished and you can't cut what isn't there. The faceless and numerous bureaucracy argument is completely bogus. The average person doesn't know half of what government does on a regular basis, they just plain don't have to think about it. It is like asking if you know what every single part in a car does, just because you don't doesn't mean the part is useless or pointless.

[SlickExecutiveType]

the only solution is to vote in the libertarian party!

[prairieobjectivist]

Occasionally a politician from an allegedly right-leaning Canadian political party makes some noises about cuts to the bureaucracy. Canada's bureaucracy is huge, over 250,000 bureaucrats are on the federal payroll. That's only counting the federal ones. There are many more on provincial and municipal government payrolls. Every Canadian politician who has promised cuts to the bureaucracy has broken that promise. It leads one to believe that the bureaucrats are the actual government.

[ReasonSharp]

DING every time he repeats the three-letter story.

[mgman71]

canadians love their socialism. Everyone complains about taxes but are unwilling to give up anything. What a government gives to one person it has to take from someone else....plus a little extra to pay for the bureaucracy.