Monday, Jan. 18, 2010

Martiniuk invites Cambridge businesses to share their
experiences with Dalton McGuinty’s job-killing red tape

Queen’s Park, Toronto -  The Ontario PC Caucus has launched a new website inviting Ontario consumers and businesses to share their experiences with Dalton McGuinty’s burdensome regulations and red tape.

Cambridge MPP Gerry Martiniuk invites Cambridge 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 job-killing red-tape.

“We, as a government-in-waiting, are looking for bottlenecks in government regulations so we can fix or eliminate them to provide incentives for much-needed job creation,” Martiniuk said.

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 employers.

QUICK FACTS

As part of the first ever ‘Red Tape Awareness Week’ the Canadian Federation of Independent Business launched a comprehensive report of “Prosperity Restricted by Red Tape.”  Some of the findings of 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

• 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 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.

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