Ontario taxpayers paid $173,000 in severance to the man Premier Dalton McGuinty sent to the provincial lottery corporation to downplay government lottery scandals, Hamilton Centre Andrea Horwath revealed today.

The Ontario NDP has begun a campaign to save the Ontario Legislative Channel from being bumped off basic Rogers cable service and out of reach of tens of thousands of loyal viewers.

New Democrat MPPs Andrea Horwath (Hamilton East) and Michael Prue (Beaches-East York) say Rogers’ plan to move the televised proceedings of the legislature to Channel 105 by January 31 is bad for democracy.

NDP Leader Howard Hampton wants to know how Dalton McGuinty could have signed off on a deal that will pay 15 corporate executives at the province′s land registry office $90 million in cash payouts – an extraordinary amount of money that will come straight out of the pockets of Ontario′s working families.