NDP Leader Howard Hampton today blasted the McGuinty Liberals for ignoring shortcomings with the legislation that governs the Technical Standards and Safety Authority, the agency responsible for monitoring facilities like the Toronto propane plant that exploded on Sunday.

NDP Leader Howard Hampton says that Provincial Ombudsman Andre Marin is completely justified in his latest annual report to request oversight responsibilities over boards of education, child protection services, public hospitals, long-term care facilities, municipalities and colleges and universities – the so-called MUSH sector that consumes most of the provincial budget.

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.

NDP Leader Howard Hampton said New Democrats are putting Dalton McGuinty on notice: the time for excuses is over and it’s time to start making lives better and more affordable for working families.

NDP Leader Howard Hampton is calling for Minister of Health and Long-Term Care George Smitherman to resign for failing to address the critical problems in Ontario’s long-term care homes.

“Seniors are not getting the care they need to meet their basic needs and in return the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care shows complete insensitivity to the families and residents living in long-term care homes by joking he’s prepared to don an incontinence product,” said Hampton.

Hamilton Centre MPP Andrea Horwath wants Premier Dalton McGuinty to make good on his promise to workers and stop their new holiday from being hijacked.

Many workers will be deprived of the new statutory holiday on February 18th because, Horwath says, “in their rush to get an election goody out the door, the Liberals mismanaged the planning of Premier McGuinty’s much-trumpeted Family Day.”