Newest MPP arrives at Queen's Park after byelection win
By ANTONELLA ARTUSO, Queen's Park Bureau Chief
Last Updated: 16th February 2010, 11:10am
Tory MPP Peter Shurman said Ontario has a lot of work to do on its energy file before going cap in hand to the federal Conservatives.
Newest MPP arrives at Queen's Park after byelection win
By ANTONELLA ARTUSO, Queen's Park Bureau Chief
Last Updated: 16th February 2010, 11:10am
Glen Murray is in the House.
The newest Ontario Liberal MPP took his seat in the Legislature Tuesday after a decisive win in the Toronto Centre byelection.
Premier Dalton McGuinty said his government will focus on jobs and the economy during this session of the legislature.
In particular, the government plans to bring in a resolution for debate by all MPPs asking the federal government to remember the province's own green initiatives when drafting its next budget.
?As it decides to lend support, for example, to carbon capture in Western Canada, we?re asking that it provide comparable levels of support to the green energy revolution taking place here in our province," McGuinty said.
Tory MPP Peter Shurman said Ontario has a lot of work to do on its energy file before going cap in hand to the federal Conservatives.
"Dalton McGuinty's idea of green energy is a Green Energy Act that provides feed-in tariffs that are excessive, that ultimately will result in high energy bills for Ontarians," Shurman said. "Under the same Green Energy Act, (McGuinty) is making deals with a foreign pwer so that he's changing Buy Ontario to Buy Korea. We don't agree with the Samsung deal. We think it exports Ontario jobs."
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said it makes sense for the federal government to contribute to green energy in the province, but said the McGuinty government is doing nothing to help individuals become better environmentalists through supports programs that would cut their energy use.