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The Toronto Sun
Thu 23 Oct 2008
“I’ve never felt that this government was really serious about taking on poverty. It’s always been more talk, talk, talk and less action. Even their so-called child benefit isn’t going to do anything significant for low-income families until 2012 … ”
— NDP Leader Howard Hampton
“It’s pretty easy to govern when all you’ve got to do is open the vault and throw money out the door … they to a significant degree have put us in a much more vulnerable position today than we should have been in.”
— Interim Conservative Leader Bob Runciman
“I’m disappointed that the government doesn’t appear to recognize the crisis that we have. I think it requires bold action … instead we get platitudes about how what they’re doing seems to be working. I can tell you from my members’ point of view, thousands of them have lost their jobs.”
Ontario Federation of Labour President Wayne Samuelson
“If this is going to be used as an excuse to do nothing, it’s really quite a frightening prospect.”
— CARP spokesman Susan Eng
“We’ve got 130,000 members. About 90,000 are going into bargaining … over the next 12 to 18 months. There’s always trouble going into bargaining. I’ve never had the government come to the table once yet and say the cupboard’s not bare.”
— OPSEU President Smokey Thomas
“We’re really con-cerned about what the announcement means for school boards”
— CUPE Ontario President Sid Ryan
“(The deficit is) completely unnecessary.”
— Kevin Gaudet, Canadian Taxpayers Federation
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