Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU)
members are holding information pickets at over 20 locations across
the province on Friday, December 3. They are protesting the McGuinty
government’s $2.4 billion-a-year cut to corporate income taxes.
OPSEU members will be conducting a street poll,
asking the public: How should Ontario invest $2.4 billion? Create
good jobs, invest in health care, education, children’s services and
other priorities, or cut corporate taxes?
In an August poll of 1,000 Ontarians by Angus Reid,
75 per cent said the McGuinty government should cancel the corporate
tax cuts.
"When we ask people this question, we find they want
the money spent on things that will benefit the public good, not on
making rich corporations like the Royal Bank, Rogers and Imperial
Oil even richer," said OPSEU President, Warren (Smokey) Thomas.
The $2.4 billion that the Liberals have started to
give away in corporate tax cuts amounts to more than $500 from every
household in Ontario.
OPSEU has been protesting corporate tax cuts at
Ontario Liberal fundraisers and events since April 2010.
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