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Ontario Assembly

43rd Parl. 1st Sess.
November 23, 2023 09:00AM
  • Nov/23/23 11:10:00 a.m.

I’ll touch on the greenbelt for a second and the double standard here. You changed it 17 times, but no one said anything, because you were taking care of the environmentalists. That’s one thing.

Talking about raising taxes, our government has never raised a tax on the backs of the people of Ontario. We’ve never raised a tax on the backs of businesses. To the contrary, we lowered taxes to the tune of $8 billion to attract the companies that they chased out of our province. They chased out 300,000 jobs as we created the environment for 715,000 jobs.

We’re putting money back into peoples’ pockets, as you increased taxes by billions and billions of dollars and made this the worst—

Interjections.

Anyway, we inherited a mess. The province is going in the right place. We hear—not just from everywhere around Canada and around North America, but the entire world—that we’re the hottest place in the world to invest in, no matter if it’s life sciences, technology or EV batteries.

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  • Nov/23/23 11:30:00 a.m.

Well, I just want to inform the member—first of all, thank you for the question. I don’t know if you have read the stats on ag production and what we’re shipping out and exporting around the world. We’ve exported, just on ag products, over $20 billion. If you want to add in food, beverage and ag, we’re over $52 billion that we ship out of this province. They have never had a better crop ever than last year.

We’re going to continue supporting our farmers, supporting the workers that are working there. We have a massive industry. It actually goes right down to—6% of our GDP is just ag products alone. It equals about $42 billion overall.

So any time you want to come by my office, I’ll inform you on what we’re doing in the agriculture, food and beverage sector.

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