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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Ontario Budget 2010McGuinty Fiddles, Ontarians Burned

TORNTO (March 25, 2010) – Little relief for taxpayers is expected in year’s provincial budget. Beyond some minor fiddling, the McGuinty

government will continue to do what it has done since first elected – bthrough billions of dollars in over-spending and then stick the taxpayefor its mismanagement.

“There is a great disconnect between the McGuinty government andthose it was elected to serve,” says Peter Coleman, President and CEof the National Citizens Coalition (NCC). “People have had to cut bac

and tighten their belts, and many are still unemployed. Yet their electerepresentatives continue to spend like drunken sailors and tax at recolevels.”

Because of its binge spending, the provincial government is out to goutaxpayers in a big way. Later this year, Ontarians will be forced to begpaying 8% more on a wide range of goods and services under theHarmonized Sales Tax. The average person will pay between $700 a

$1,000 or more in additional sales taxes this year – and every year intthe future.

“The Liberals at Queen’s Park don’t care that this tax is vehementlyopposed by the public. They even smiled when they said they were

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going to push it through,” Coleman notes. “In the private sector, if acompany was faced with the prospect of multiple billion dollar lossesyear-over-year, changes would be made, heads would roll. Why shou

be any different in the public sector?”

The NCC traditionally has not involved itself in elections, but it vowedthat it would work to defeat the Liberals if they went ahead with the HS“And so if this government won’t listen to the people, then we will wormake it listen at the ballot box,” he adds.

The NCC has launched what it calls the 5-0-1 campaign for good

government, and it wants Ontario along with the federal and other provincial governments to support and adopt its principles.

5-0-1 stands for:

• a five per cent pay cut for all elected politicians• zero increase in government spending

• and only one new public service hire for every two public serviceretirements

“When a government stops listening to its citizens, when it feels it canwhatever it wants with impunity, then people will mobilize to create theown alternatives. We will continue to fight for fiscal policies that will puthis province and this country back on the road to sustainable economgrowth,” says Coleman.

The NCC is Canada’s largest citizens’ organization and is dedicated tthe defence and promotion of free enterprise, free speech and agovernment that is accountable to its taxpayers. To learn more about

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NCC and the 5-0-1 campaign, visit www.nationalcitizens.ca or call thenumber below.

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Peter Coleman will be available by telephone, and then will be atthe Legislative Building at Queen’s Park from 4-6 p.m. today.Please contact:

Sara Cauchon

416-777-0368