Did you know 1 in 6 newcomers to Canada leaves the country within a year?

It’s true – Ontario is experiencing a brain drain of talented new Canadian professionals who are moving out of the province to search for better opportunities.

New Democrats stand up for New Canadians. We believe in an Ontario that is strong because it is diverse -- where people from different backgrounds, from different countries and who speak different languages all work together to build a province where everyone shares in our prosperity.

Dalton McGuinty promised positive change. Instead of progress, we’re seeing the same old approach – foreign-trained professionals – our province’s greatest untapped assets -- left waiting too long for the professional accreditation they need to build a brighter future for them and their families.

Now, the McGuinty Liberals have announced plans to for deep cuts to Ontario’s Human Rights Commission – forcing New Canadians who suffer discrimination to pay out-of-pocket to enforce their rights.

Sky-high property assessments are whacking homeowners across Ontario – especially seniors and people on fixed incomes.

Dalton McGuinty says he’s seized with the issue. He’s seized all right. Seized like a rusty engine.

New Democrats stand up for homeowners. We believe homeowners deserve a fair, predictable, stable property assessments – not the astonishingly inaccurate, bullying, manipulative, self-serving and cutthroat system condemned by Ontario’s Ombudsman – that ends up forcing people out of their homes.

Dalton McGuinty promised positive change. Instead of progress, we’re seeing the same old approach – passing the buck on the issue until after the next provincial election – setting homeowners up for a huge shock from a ticking tax bomb.

New Democrats have a fresh idea – the Freeze Till Sale property assessment model. The new model - put forward by the NDP's Task Force on Assessment and Property Tax - would freeze the assessed value of your home at its purchase price for as long as you own your home. It would replace the McGuinty Liberals' unfair, arbitrary and punishing property assessment system - and make property assessment fair, predictable and easier to understand.

Show your support for fair property assessment. Work with us on positive solutions that make a real difference -- and join the NDP in the fight for working families.

Some 443,000 Ontario children live in poverty. Thousands of families are waiting for basic necessities of life like affordable housing and child care. And autistic children continue to go without the treatment they need to learn, grow and prosper.

New Democrats stand up for our most vulnerable citizens. We believe in an Ontario that holds limitless opportunities for people – and prosperity that can be shared and enjoyed by all citizens, because everyone matters.

Dalton McGuinty promised positive change. Instead of progress, we’re seeing the same old approach – too many people in our wealthy province falling through the cracks, being left to fend for themselves.

Helping our most vulnerable citizens – now there’s a fresh idea. Let’s build that affordable housing. Let’s create more child care spaces. Let’s provide treatment to every autistic child who needs it. And let’s stop the clawback of the National Child Benefit Supplement – which robs $1,500 a year from our poorest children.

Dalton McGuinty wants to make them reach deeper in their pockets – because he’s raising their college and university tuition fees by 20 to 36 per cent over four years.

New Democrats stand up for students. We believe they should be able to afford a high-quality post-secondary education – because young people are our future – because we all benefit from a highly-educated workforce – and because no-one should have to mortgage their future to build a better life for themselves.

Dalton McGuinty promised positive change. Instead of progress, we’re seeing the same old approach – more tuition hikes – even though Ontario students already pay tuition fees well above the national average.

The NDP has a fresh idea – the Tuition Hike Ban bill. If passed, the bill would freeze tuition through 2007, then give working families their say on the issue in the next provincial election.

Show your support for affordable, accessible post-secondary education. Tell us your story and join the NDP in the fight for working families.

Nuclear power has a disappointing track record in Ontario: Massive cost overruns that drive up rates, reliability problems that could mean lights out, and toxic nuclear waste we don’t know how to store.

Nuclear plants are expensive, unreliable and risky.

Do we really want more?

Dalton McGuinty promised positive change. Instead of progress, we’re seeing the same old approach – Mr. McGuinty wants to repeat the mistakes of the past. He wants more nuclear power. He even broke Ontario’s environmental protection laws to ensure quick approval.

The NDP stands up for working families. We have a fresh idea -- a safe, clean, affordable and reliable supply of publicly owned and publicly controlled electricity, focused on an aggressive approach to renewables, energy efficiency and energy conservation.

This approach worked in California where the state built the equivalent of 12 power plants with energy efficiency investments, replacing the need for 12,000 megawatts of generation capacity – or almost 50 per cent of Ontario’s peak demand on a hot summer day. We can make it work in Ontario too.

Show your support for clean green power and say no to more nuclear power. Sign the online petition -- download a hardcopy for your friends -- tell us your story – and join the NDP in the fight for 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.

	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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