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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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    Liberals, Tories defeat WSIB Experience Rating program motion

    May 14, 2008 - 7:00pm

    NDP Leader Howard Hampton heaped scorn on the Liberals and Tories for defeating his motion calling for an immediate moratorium on rebates and surcharges related to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board’s (WSIB) deeply flawed Experience Rating program until an internal board report is completed.

     

     

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    McGuinty doles out cash without guarantees, jobs flee Ontario

    May 13, 2008 - 4:00pm

    NDP Leader Howard Hampton today slammed the McGuinty government for doling out more than $400-million in corporate hand-outs to the “Big Three” auto makers while they slash their Ontario workforce by 10,000.

     

     

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    Hampton: McGuinty jobs policies sentencing families to poverty

    May 12, 2008 - 2:00pm

    NDP Leader Howard Hampton says Dalton McGuinty’s economic policies are failing to protect Ontario’s good paying manufacturing jobs and sentencing more Ontario families to poverty.

    The magnitude of the manufacturing jobs crisis was heightened today with the announcement that General Motors is closing its Windsor transmission plant, sending another 1,400 workers on the unemployment lines.

     

     

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    Ontario’s battered manufacturing sector takes another hit

    May 9, 2008 - 12:00pm

    - NDP Leader Howard Hampton says the crisis in Ontario’s manufacturing sector is worsening with the release of Statistics Canada's latest Labour Force Survey showing the province lost another 15,000 manufacturing jobs in April.

     

     

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