TORONTO, April 22, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne's government will be facing a non-confidence motion to be tabled by Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives in the very near future, an unidentified spokesman for the PCs told the media over the weekend.
The Ontario Liberals have led Ontario since 2003, but social conservative leaders have called for their ouster because of their ardent promotion of abortion access and the use of schools to promote a radical sex ed agenda.
The anonymous source, described as a senior party official, told the Canadian Press that the PCs will bring forward what is officially called a “want of confidence” motion because they see the actions of the Liberal government as “dishonest.”
The focal point of the non-confidence motion, the source revealed, is the scandal over the costs involved in the cancellation of natural gas powered generating plants in Oakville and Mississauga.
“We believe because the Liberal Party has continued to put its self-interests ahead of taxpayers they can no longer be trusted to govern,” said the source. “As the auditor general has revealed, they have not been honest about the true costs of at least the Mississauga gas plant.”
Auditor General Jim McCarter reported last week that the real cost of abruptly cancelling the Mississauga plant in mid-construction, just days before the 2011 election, was nearer to $275 million, not the $190 million Premier Kathleen Wynne and the Liberals have claimed.
The Liberals have also claimed that the 2010 cancellation of the much larger Oakville power plant was only $40 million, a claim the Auditor General is currently investigating, with a report due in August.
“The gas plant scandal is just the latest in a long series of examples of this sort of waste under the Liberals, following things like eHealth and Ornge,” said the Tory source.
“If they’re mismanaging this one file so badly, just think about what they’re doing to the rest of government that we don’t know about, so on that basis we’re going to be bringing forward a want of confidence motion to change the government.”
In the midst of last fall's investigation by the justice committee into the costs of cancelling the generating plants, and a contempt of parliament motion brought forward by the PCs, Dalton McGuinty suddenly announced his resignation as premier, prorogured the legislature, and called for a new leadership convention.
Though a self-proclaimed Catholic, McGuinty was renowned for his advocacy of state-funded abortion-on-demand and the normalization of homosexuality.
Just months before McGuinty quit, his government passed the controversial “anti-bullying” bill that was slammed by critics as an attack on religious freedom because it forces all schools to allow gay-straight alliance homosexual clubs.
McGuinty's resignation paved the way for pro-abortion, lesbian and homosexual activist Kathleen Wynne to take over control of the Ontario Liberals.
On winning the leadership race, Wynne pledged to continue the “legacy” of the former premier. “This is going to be a great government and we’re going to build on the legacy of Dalton. We’re going to build on the work that Dalton McGuinty has done over the last nine years. Absolutely,” she said.
At her first news conference as premier, Wynne promised to bring back a controversial sex-ed program that was part of McGuinty's “legacy.”
The curriculum, which would have had students learning about “gender identity” in grade 3 and anal intercourse in grade 7, was shelved temporarily by McGuinty in 2010 after strong backlash from parents.
“We are going to evolve the physical health and sex education curriculum,” Wynne told the homosexual news service Xtra. “We have developed curriculum in this province for decades, and we have done it in a way that has integrity.”
Wynne oversaw the explicit sex-ed program’s development as Minister of Education, a job she held from 2006 to 2010. She also launched the province’s equity and inclusive education strategy, which culminated in Bill 13, forcing gay-straight alliance clubs on Catholic schools, despite opposition from parents and the province's Catholic bishops.
Contact info:
Tim Hudak, Opposition Leader
Ontario PC Party
19 Duncan Street, Suite 401
Toronto, ON M5H 3H1
Phone: 416-861-0020
Toll-free: 1-800-903-6453
Fax: 416-861-9593
Email: [email protected]
Kathleen Wynne, Premier
Legislative Building
Queen's Park
Toronto ON M7A 1A1
Phone: 416-325-1941
Toll-free: 1-800-387-5559
E-mail: [email protected]