PC MPP Miller and Fedeli share insight on Sunshine list

PC MPP Norm Miller joined PC candidate Vic Fedeli at the NBRHC, for a media conference about the Sunshine list and eHealth style waste of the McGuinty government Friday morning. Photo by Devin Size

Ontario PC MPP Norm Miller for the Parry Sound-Muskoka riding visited the NBRHC to talk to the media about their standpoint on the Dalton McGuinty spending issues Friday morning.

In short, Miller expressed that this government has doubled its debt while tripling its payroll. Specifically, he wanted to address the amount of waste his party believes the Liberal McGuinty government is subjecting tax payers to.

The release of the 2010 Sunshine list of government employees’ earnings, brought light to certain issues that the PC party believes are unacceptable. MPP PC candidate for the Nipissing riding, Vic Fedeli, used the former Minister of Health, Ron Sapsford and the LHINs as prime examples of such frivolous expenses.

“I believe in getting rid of the Local Health Integration Networks (LHIN),” explains Fedeli. “That’s money that can be put in to front line health care, like at the NBRHC.”

“Forget politics for a minute, and look at what really happened. We’ve got an employee, a deputy minister that left in 2009. Yet, we learn now, that in 2010, he was still paid three quarters of a million dollars, that’s outrageous as a tax payer. Where there’s one, there has to be more.”

Miller shared in the outrage of Fedeli on this matter.

“Dalton McGuinty needs to come clean and explain why he wasted three-quarters of a million dollars paying a bureaucrat in 2010 that quit his job in 2009,” explains Miller.

Facts presented to the PC party about the Sunshine list and McGuinty government are beginning to make them suspicious of what is actually transpiring within the province’s health care system. The number of executives making over six figures in the North East LHIN has quadrupled in just four years. They went from three members in 2006 to 14 in 2010. The payroll jumped from $416,000 to over $1.8 million last year.

“This isn’t an issue just in Nipissing,” states Miller. “We’ve seen across the province, this new health bureaucracy that has been created by the McGuinty government that is diverting funds that should be going into frontline health care. This is something the PCs and Tim Hudak want to do away with.”

“These fourteen salaries of over $100,000, are taking up $1.8 million dollars away from heatlh care, we have more than enough administration within the Ministry of Health, hospitals and CCACs (Community Care Access Centre) that we don’t need this mid level bureaucracy. We want to take the money away from them and put it into health care, to stop this eHealth style waste.”