NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is pinning today’s grim job loss numbers on Dalton McGuinty’s continued failure to address Ontario’s growing economic crisis.

Statistics Canada’s latest monthly jobs report showed the province lost another 60,000 jobs in May and the unemployment rate is now 9.4 per cent.

“May was another sad month in Ontario, as 60,000 workers found out their jobs were gone,” said Horwath.

“Families reeling from this crisis are looking for leadership, but all they see are insiders awarding themselves six-figure bonuses and another corporate tax giveaway from an increasingly arrogant McGuinty government that just doesn’t seem to get it.”

According to Statistics Canada, communities such as Windsor and London now suffer from double-digit unemployment and Ontario has now lost a staggering 234,000 jobs since October. Manufacturing jobs across the province are at their lowest level since 1976.

“Dalton McGuinty has repeatedly ignored the growing problems in our manufacturing sector,” said Horwath.

“He should be paying attention to what governments elsewhere have done,” she added, alluding to the positive news out of NDP-governed Manitoba, where employment grew last month and the unemployment rate sits at 4.9 per cent.

Horwath and the NDP have repeatedly called on the McGuinty government to take definitive action to protect Ontario’s industrial base, including restoring a “Buy Ontario” procurement policy to promote regional development and making strategic investments in light-rail to ensure manufacturing jobs of the future stay in the province.