Mr. Speaker, on Wednesday the people of Ontario finally learned that Mike Harris and his Conservative government do not know the meaning of the words common sense.
Ontarians will now have to wait longer for hospital services, if they can find an open hospital; pay up to 22 per cent more for a university education; and learn to live with fewer locally provided services.
The Waterloo region, which takes in my riding of Cambridge, will be faced with $9 million in hospital cuts. Those cuts will mean a reduction and possible elimination of services from three hospitals in the area.
The area will also see a cut of approximately $10 million to schools. Libraries in Cambridge will lose $120,000 and transit fares will go up.
While all Ontarians want to get their fiscal house in order, why is it that the sick, the elderly and children trying to get an education will be most hurt by the cuts? The premier's friends who have been promised a 30 per cent tax break will not.
While it is nice to see that the premier-