Sarnia, ON - Bob Bailey (MPP Sarnia-Lambton) attended the announcement with Tim Hudak P.C. leader of the Official Opposition, Randy Hillier, Julia Munro and Toby Barrett in Ancaster yesterday to outline the Ontario PC Caucus' Small Business Jobs Plan that calls on the Government to help build the small business sector, which is essential to Ontario's economic recovery.
The PC Small Business Jobs Plan contains practical and affordable ideas that will stimulate the economy today and encourage immediate job creation. The PC Caucus will continue to push for the adoption of these policies in order to help create jobs and keep talented young people in Ontario.
QUOTES:
"The PC Plan for Small Business offers straightforward, practical ideas to re-establish Ontario's small business sector as the growth engine of our economy. Removing these barriers to growth will allow small businesses to do what they do best - create jobs."
-- Bob Bailey (MPP Sarnia-Lambton)
"The PC Party looks forward to continuing to consult with small businesses, entrepreneurs and Ontario families for the best long-term ideas to turn our province around and restore it to its rightful place as the economic powerhouse of confederation"
-- Bob Bailey (MPP Sarnia-Lambton)
QUICK FACTS:
The PC Caucus Small Business Jobs Plan would encourage jobs now by:
* Repealing the McGuinty government's job-killing Bill 119, which forces independent operators and sole proprietors into the WSIB system and requires WSIB coverage for office and secretarial staff who will never set foot on a construction site. This bill will cost affected small businesses more than $11,000 in additional taxes each year.
* Ensuring permanent small business representation on the WSIB.
* Calling for a one year payroll tax holiday that will make it more affordable for small businesses to hire new staff; and a one year suspension of the land-transfer tax that will make home ownership more affordable for young families - and help create new construction jobs.
* Re-instating a Red Tape Commission that will eliminate the many unnecessary regulations that punish small businesses.
* Implementing a moratorium on new regulations that will impact small business jobs until the Red Tape Commission is in place to reduce the overall regulatory burden.
* Turning Ontario's 3:1 journeyman-to-apprentice ratio into a 1:1 ratio. This will help more young tradespeople into the market, and make it more affordable for small businesses to hire new workers.
* Suspending the McGuinty Government's decision to place 100% of the cost burden for the blue box program on small businesses. This places an unfair an unwarranted cost burden on businesses and manufacturers and will cost jobs. Instead, government should maintain the existing 50-50 split.
* Continuing to use every tool available to stop Dalton McGuinty's plan to merge the HST and PST into a super ‘Dalton Sales Tax' that will take $3 billion out of the pockets of consumers and kill jobs.
