Waste in the PC Election Platform: Tim Hudak's Non-Existent Plan for a Balanced Ontario Budget
1,240 views · Published 24 May 2011 · 4:25 · Indexed 3 October 2026
Channel: Paul McKeever · 2011 · News & Politics
This video is part of the blog entry: http://blog.paulmckeever.ca/2011/05/25/ontarios-liberal-tory-deficit-fighting-farce-updated-for-2011/ About this video: Tim Hudak and his Progressive Conservatives do not have a plan to balance the Ontario budget. When asked for how he would balance the budget (Ontario's currently running a $16.7 billion annual budget deficit), he falls back on a pre-prepared script that is utterly ambiguous, equivocal, and disingenuous. Watch, as Tim Hudak attempts to convince multiple audiences, over many months, that he would somehow slay a deficit and pay for his promised $1.2B in HST electricity exemptions by finding "waste in the system" and by "looking" at Agencies, Boards and Commissions. And note: on May 24, 2011, Hudak announced that he would increase health care spending by $6.1B. That means he would have to find a total of at least $24B in "waste" in the system to balance the budget. Verdict: The Hudak PCs have no credible plan to balance the budget. PCs are essentially implying that they will continue running deficits, just like the McGuinty Liberals.
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