McGuinty Top 50: Broken promises

1. "I won't raise your taxes."
2. Balance the Budget every year of their mandate
3. Balance the Budget by 2007
4. Roll back tolls on the 407
5. Fund Medically-Necessary Health Care Services (de-listed eye exams, chiropractic care and physiotherapy
6. Not Add to the Province's Debt
7. Stop 6,600 Houses on the Oak Ridges Moraine
8. Abide by the Balanced Budget law
9. Cap Hydro Rates at 4.3 cents per Kilowatt Hour Until 2006
10. Respect MPPs and Democracy
11. Allow all non-cabinet MPPs to criticize and vote against government legislation
12. Provide autism treatment beyond age six
13. Reduce Auto Insurance Rates by 10% Within 90 Days
14. Reduce Private Consultants
15. Cancel P3 Hospitals in Brampton and Ottawa
16. Public Inquiry into Meat Inspection
17. Withdraw Government Appeal on the Richmond Landfill
18. Make Ontario's Chief Medical Officer an independent officer of the Legislature
19. Govern with honesty and integrity
20. Respect the Outcome of the Kawartha Lakes Referendum on Amalgamation
21. Better mental health care
22. Value and Support the Public Service
23. Divert 60% of municipal garbage to recycling by 2005
24. Close "private" MRI and CT clinics
25. Stop School Closings
26. "Immediately" establish an Arts and Culture Advisory Council
27. Provide Adequate, Multi-Year Funding for Hospitals
28. Hire Over 1,000 Teachers a Year
29. Hire 1,000 New Police Officers
30. Close Coal-Fired Electricity Plants by 2007
31. Hire 100 New Parole and Probation Officers
32. Double the Number of Apprentices
33. Create Tens of Thousands of New Child Care Spaces
34. End the "Clawback" of the Federal Child Tax Credit
35. Build 20,000 New Affordable Housing Units
36. Spend "Every Penny" of the New Health Tax on Health Care
37. Cut Ministers' Pay for Running a Deficit
38. Eliminate Barriers to Foreign-Trained Professionals within One Year
39. Require Trades and Professions to Accept Qualified Immigrants within One Year
40. Repeal the Tenant Protection Act within One Year
41. Establish a Standing Committee on Education to Hold Yearly Hearings
42. Liberal Promises Would Cost $5.9 Billion
43. Provide Legal Rights to Victims of Crime
44. Hire 8,000 nurses by the end of 2007
45. Make the Ministry of Agriculture a lead ministry
46. Invest in rural roads and bridges
47. Support the Province's Cities
48. Make sure health dollars are being spent wisely
49. Stop the waste of taxpayers' dollars
50. Guarantee stable, long-term funding for our rural communities

(from: Pay More Get Less)