Elizabeth Witmer, MPP
Waterloo Region Businesses Share Their Experinces With McGuinty’s Red Tape
February 3rd, 2010

The Ontario PC Caucus is launching a new website inviting Ontario consumers and businesses to share their experiences with Dalton McGuinty’s numerous regulations and burdensome red tape.

Kitchener-Waterloo MPP, Elizabeth Witmer, invites local small businesses to visit www.tiredofredtape.ca, the latest component of the Ontario PC Small Business Jobs Plan.  This website provides a forum for people to share their experiences and frustrations with the McGuinty government’s excessive red tape.

The Ontario PC Caucus’ Small Business Jobs Plan calls on the McGuinty government to immediately take steps to reduce the red tape and regulatory burden strangling Ontario’s employers.

 

QUOTES

“If you have run into the wall of Dalton McGuinty’s red tape, we want to hear about it. Please go to www.tiredofredtape.ca and share your experiences with us. You can count on a Tim Hudak PC government to reduce red tape.”

– Kitchener-Waterloo MPP, Elizabeth Witmer

“Dalton McGuinty’s high taxes and excessive red tape are the two largest problems facing Ontario’s small businesses. The CFIB has once again made a compelling case about the devastating consequences of red tape for small businesses.  Red tape costs money and kills jobs.”

– Kitchener-Waterloo MPP, Elizabeth Witmer

 

QUICK FACTS

As part of the first ever ‘Red Tape Awareness Week’ the Canadian Federation of Independent Business released a comprehensive report entitled “Prosperity Restricted by Red Tape.” Some of the findings from this report include:

  • Only Manitoba beat Ontario on a measure of whether or not CFIB members felt red tape had increased in their province over the previous 3 years
  • Ontario is responsible for 36% of Canada’s regulatory costs ($10.9 MM out of $30.5 MM)
  • The CFIB’s “Regulatory Accountability Progress Report” gives 3 thumbs down for Ontario for no publicly reported measure for red tape, no current measurement of red tape, and no permanent (legislated) commitment to report on red tape.

The PC Caucus Small Business Jobs Plan would encourage jobs now by:

  • Re-instating a Red Tape Commission that would eliminate many unnecessary regulations that punish small businesses. 
  • Implementing a moratorium on new regulations that will impact small businesses until the Red Tape Commission has reduced the overall regulatory burden.

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For more information contact:

Elizabeth Witmer, MPP

(416) 325-1306
Copyright Elizabeth Witmer, MPP for Kitchener-Waterloo.