Jobs and the Economy

NDP plan to create new job opportunites and help working families

The time to create new job opportunities and help working families is NOW!

Howard Hampton and Ontario’s NDP have a plan to turn the McGuinty Liberals' sorry record of 200,000 manufacturing jobs lost into sustained job gains across our province.

This page tells you about our plan and provides ways for you to show your support. Click on the links below for more.

  • Invest Federal funds in our hard hit communities now
  • Institute a 'Buy Ontario' program
  • Create a Manufacturing Tax Credit
  • Sign our on-line petition
  • Download the petition and collect signatures
  • Download a copy of the 3-point program leaflet
  • Write a Letter
  • Invest Federal funds in our hard hit communities now.

    Institute a ‘Buy Ontario’ program

    Create an Ontario Manufacturing Tax Credit

    Sign The Petition

    Send McGuinty a message by showing your support for the NDP program to create job opportunities and help working families.


    Download the Petition and get signatures

    Get your friends, family and neighbours to show their support for the NDP program to turn the McGuinty Liberals’ sorry record of job losses into sustained job gains. HERE


    Download the 3-point program leaflet

    Download a pdf of the NDP Caucus leaflet which outlines our three point program. HERE[143KB]

    Write a Letter

    Visit our online action centre and write a letter to your local newspaper expressing your support for Howard Hampton's three point plan to create new job opportunities and help working families.

     

     

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    McGuinty and Mintz (used to) agree: HST bad for jobs

    November 4, 2009 - 10:00am

    NDP Finance Critic Michael Prue reminded Ontarians about the dangers of the HST today.

    "McGuinty's unfair tax scheme will make it harder to make ends meet and to find a job," said Prue. "The Premier and his own experts agree – at least they used to."

     

     

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    Workers get the shaft, Buchanan gets $80-million

    November 2, 2009 - 3:00pm

    Kenora-Rainy River NDP MPP Howard Hampton says the McGuinty government has shovelled more than $80-million to the Buchanan Group of Companies while former employees are left with no severance or termination pay.

     

     

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    Hospital housekeeping too important to cut: NDP

    November 2, 2009 - 3:00pm

    NDP Health Critic and Nickel Belt MPP France Gélinas is once again raising concerns about cuts to housekeeping services at hospitals across the province and what that means for infection control during the H1N1 outbreak.

     

     

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    McGuinty “plan” offers little for forestry: Horwath

    October 26, 2009 - 1:00pm

    Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is demanding the McGuinty Liberals go back to the drawing board to come up with a real plan that will address Northern Ontario’s jobs crisis, especially in the forestry sector.

     

     

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    Liberal plan doesn’t address Northern job losses: NDP

    October 23, 2009 - 4:00pm

    The Northern Ontario growth plan released today by the McGuinty Liberal government does nothing to bring the forestry jobs that have been lost as a result of disastrous hydro and trade policies, says Kenora-Rainy River NDP MPP Howard Hampton.

     

     

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