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TIM HUDAK FLIP-FLOPS ON BOOZE MONOPOLY: NO CREDIBILITY ON LCBO/BEER STORE PCs Seek Votes with Freedom Party Plank they rejected during Ontario Election 2011 December 4, 2012, Toronto - Ontario PC leader Tim
Hudak today lifted a Freedom Party of Ontario plank
that his party – along with the Liberals and NDP – rejected
during election 2011. As usual, Hudak presented the idea as a trial
balloon, not a promise. Freedom Party leader Paul McKeever says
Hudak’s cynically flip flopping on the issue, and accuses Hudak of
engaging in another plan of bait-and-switch.
Click to watch
Freedom Party of Ontario’s
2011 Election TV ad re: ending the LCBO
monopoly
“It’s Hudak’s buck-a-beer bait-and-switch all over again”, says
McKeever. “In late 2010, Freedom Party put out a proposal to lower
the cost of beer by eliminating the hidden beer tax. Shortly
thereafter, Mr. Hudak openly mused about allowing beer to be sold for a
dollar. It got him headlines, but buck-a-beer was mysteriously
absent from his party’s election platform months later.
“Expect the same to happen with Mr. Hudak’s pilfering of Freedom
Party’s proposal to end the LCBO and Beer Store monopolies. In a
questionable attempt to rally conservatives, Mr. Hudak – an advocate of
socialized health care and education – has suddenly decided to flip-flop,
steal a Freedom Party plank, and cross-dress as a free marketeer on the
liquor monopoly issue. But I’d bet a bottle of Lagavulin that Tim
Hudak’s PCs will never deliver on this posturing.
“What’s worse is that his talk about selling parts of the LCBO – a
money-maker – is contrary to his stated purpose for this proposal:
balancing the budget. Asset sales are very temporary band-aids on
the fiscal crisis Ontario is facing. If Mr. Hudak truly wants to
address the budget crisis, instead of pretending to be a Freedom Party
guy, I heartily recommend that he steal our 2012
Opposition Budget proposal, which would balance the budget without
engaging in pointless asset sales. A revised edition soon will be
released for 2013, if he’d like to wait for that.”
For further details, contact: Paul McKeever, B.Sc.(Hons), M.A., LL.B.
Leader - Freedom Party of Ontario Office: 905-721-9772 e-mail: pmckeever@freedomparty.on.ca
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