Mr. Speaker, I rise today to voice my opposition to the Reform Party like tactics being used by the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party during the Ontario election campaign.
Mike Harris and his party troops are spreading a gospel of fiscal fantasy. On the one hand they promise $4 billion worth of income tax cuts; on the other they pledge to balance the budget in six years. On the one hand they would promise not to cut health care and education; on the other they would spend millions of dollars on end of pipe solutions, punishing youth in boot camps, a system that has already failed in the United States. Are they for real? To top it all off, the Harris posse pledges to take a 25 per cent pay cut if they fail to meet their deficit targets, targets set for some time after the next provincial election.
The people of Ontario do not need naive politicians who make lofty promises that do not make any sense. They need the McLeod team: realistic promises, realistic goals, good government.