NEWS:

TORONTO — Months after an Ottawa Citizen expose showed that Dalton McGuinty was greatly exaggerating the number of jobs at green energy companies across Ontario, the McGuinty Liberals have seen their green jobs agenda come unraveled. Following the revelations this week that workers were brought back to a solar panel plant just for Dalton McGuinty’s photo-op, another of Dalton McGuinty’s success stories is facing difficulties.

Sadly, a local official at DMI Industries reports that the company is laying off workers at its Fort Erie plant. Just like Eclipsall – the location of the phony McGuinty photo-op this week – the Dalton McGuinty Liberals have long held wind turbine tower producer DMI Industries in Fort Erie up as one of their green energy success stories. Dalton McGuinty has attempted to fool Ontario families into believing that these so-called jobs are justification for the skyrocketing hydro bills that are laying unopened on kitchen tables across Ontario. But as Dalton McGuinty’s green jobs plan unravels, Ontario families will not be fooled.

Unlike Dalton McGuinty’s phony jobs plan, Tim Hudak and the Ontario PC Party have a plan to create jobs and restore Ontario as the economic engine of Ontario. An Ontario PC government will lower the business tax rate, reduce our regulatory burden, give middle class families the confidence to spend again by providing relief, and modernize our skilled labour system. Only Tim Hudak has a real jobs plan to make Ontario the leader in job creation – once again.

QUOTES:

“While Dalton McGuinty can continue to try and fool Ontario families into believing that the 150% increase in their hydro bills under him is creating jobs, Ontario families will not be fooled. In the last two days we’ve seen Dalton McGuinty’s argument come unraveled.”
– Rocco Rossi, Ontario PC candidate for Eglinton-Lawrence

“Unlike Dalton McGuinty’s phony jobs plan, Tim Hudak and the Ontario PC Party have a plan to create jobs and restore Ontario as the economic engine of Ontario. An Ontario PC government will lower the business tax rate, reduce our regulatory burden, give middle class families the confidence to spend again by providing relief, and modernize our skilled labour system.”
– Rocco Rossi, Ontario PC candidate for Eglinton-Lawrence

QUICK FACTS:

• In February 2011, an Ottawa Citizen investigation revealed that Liberals were greatly exaggerating the number of green jobs in Ontario. Four manufacturers contacted by the Citizen – including DMI Industries in Fort Erie – employed far fewer people than the Liberals were claiming. (Ottawa Citizen, February 6, 2011)
• “Mr. McGuinty was flanked by Eclipsall Energy Corp.’s workforce when he visited its Scarborough solar panel plant Tuesday, but there was no mention that the production line is temporarily shut down.” (John Ivison, National Post, September 16, 2011)
• “Our electricity plan is about jobs: 225 jobs in Fort Erie at DMI Industries” (Dalton McGuinty, Ontario Legislature, February 22, 2011)
• “Bullet News managed to speak with a manager at the Fort Erie plant, who acknowledged the layoffs but referred questions to the company’s head office in West Fargo.” (Bullet News, September 16, 2011)