Kathleen O'Day Wynne Liberal Party of Ontario.

Kathleen O'Day Wynne (born May 21, 1953)[3] is a politician in Ontario, the 25th and current Premier of Ontario and a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Don Valley West for theLiberal Party. She is the first premier in Canada to be openly gay and the first female premier of Ontario.

She was Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing and Aboriginal Affairs until resigning to run as a leadership candidate.[4]



Contents [hide]
1 Early life
2 School trustee
3 Provincial politics
4 Leadership
5 Premiership
5.1 Gas Plant Scandal
5.2 2013 Budget
5.3 Education
5.4 The Economy
5.5 2014 Election
6 Personal life
7 Electoral record
8 References
9 External links


Early life

Kathleen Wynne was born to Dr. John B. Wynne[5] and Patsy O'Day,[6] a British subject musician who grew up in the Bahamas before immigrating to Canada.[7]

Wynne grew up in Richmond Hill, Ontario.[8] She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Queen's University and a Master of Arts degree in linguistics from the University of Toronto. She achieved a Master of Education degree in adult education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (University of Toronto). She was a member of the discipline committee of the Ontario Society of Psychotherapists from 1997 to 2000.

Wynne served as president of the Toronto Institute of Human Relations. In 1996, she helped found Citizens for Local Democracy, which opposed the efforts of Ontario's Progressive Conservative government to amalgamate the City of Toronto. She also founded the Metro Parent Network (now the Toronto Parent Network) which supports improvements in the province's public education system, and has participated in numerous other community endeavours. Wynne helped found MAD for Dancing, a community fundraising group that has donated over $50,000 to organizations that support gay and lesbian youth.
School trustee

Wynne first ran for trustee in 1994 in ward 12 but was defeated by Ann Vanstone.[9] In 2000, she ran again and was elected as a public school trustee in Toronto's ward 8.[10] During the campaign she was labelled an "extremist lesbian" in literature distributed by the "Concerned Citizens of North York and North Toronto". This was the ratepayer group that later supported Karen Stintz in her campaign against local councillor Anne Johnston.[11] She strongly opposed cuts to public education mandated by the Conservative government.

In 2001, she helped pass a measure encouraging public schools to purchase teaching materials reflecting the presence of gay and lesbian parents in modern society.[12] In December 2001, Wynne ran for chair of the school board but was defeated by Donna Cansfield in a 12–10 vote.[13]
Provincial politics

Wynne was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 2003 provincial election, defeating Progressive Conservative cabinet minister David Turnbull by over 5,000 votes. The Liberals won the election, and Wynne was appointed parliamentary assistant to Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities Mary Anne Chambers in October 2003. In October 2004, she was appointed parliamentary assistant to Minister of Education Gerard Kennedy. From June 2005 to November 2005 she served as a member of the Select Committee on Electoral Reform, which recommended "that the referendum be binding upon a vote of 50% + 1, and the support of 50% + 1 in at least two-thirds (i.e., 71) of the ridings or any other formula that ensures the result has support from Northern, rural, and urban areas of the Province," although the cabinet subsequently decided on 100.

On September 18, 2006, she was promoted to Minister of Education in a cabinet shuffle occasioned by the resignation of Joe Cordiano from the Legislature. She was the province's first openly lesbian cabinet minister, and only the second openly LGBT cabinet minister after Deputy Premier George Smitherman.[14] On January 18, 2010, she was moved to Minister of Transportation and in 2011 she was appointed Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing and Aboriginal Affairs.

In the 2007 provincial election, Wynne was challenged by the PC leader John Tory. Tory, who was elected to Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey (former PC leader Ernie Eves' riding) in a by-election, was seeking a seat in a Toronto-area riding. Though it was projected to be a close race, Wynne was re-elected with 50.4 percent of the popular vote, defeating Tory who came in second with 39.7 of the popular vote.

Wynne was also instrumental in establishing the first Minister's Student Advisory Council, a group of sixty students from all parts of the education system and regions of the province to share their ideas and advice with the Minister of Education on how to ensure Ontario's schools remain competitive.
Leadership


Premier McGuinty announced on October 15, 2012, that he would resign as leader of the Liberal Party of Ontario and premier of the province once his successor was chosen.[15] On November 2, 2012, Wynne resigned her cabinet post and three days later launched her bid for the leadership of the party.[16][17] Wynne was seen as having the strongest on-the-ground organization among the seven candidates, and along with former MPPSandra Pupatello, and was one of the front runners.[18] She had the most supporters running to be delegates at the convention, with 1,533, and was the only candidate to have supporters in place in all 107 of the province's ridings.[19] Days before members were to begin electing delegates Glen Murray announced he was exiting the leadership race and endorsed Wynne's candidacy.[20] Despite running with the most supporters for delegate positions Wynne placed second, with 468 delegates, behind Pupatello who had 509 delegates.[21] Pupatello was also believed to have the most support among ex-officio delegates, which are MPPs, MPs, defeated candidates and other Liberal insiders, and was expected to increase her lead over Wynne on the first ballot at the convention.[22][23]

At the convention on January 26, 2013, Wynne surprised many with her strong speech to delegates. In the speech she discussed repairing relations with teachers, working with opposition parties, and took aim at her main rival Pupatello, who doesn't hold a seat, by saying that she was ready to govern and would recall the legislature on February 19. Wynne also addressed her sexuality saying; "When I ran in 2003, I was told that the people of North Toronto and Thorncliffe Park weren’t ready to elect a gay woman. Well, apparently they were." She went on to say that "I don’t believe the people of Ontario judge their leaders on the basis of race, colour or sexual orientation – I don’t believe they hold that prejudice in their hearts."[24][25][26][27][28]

When the first ballot results were announced Wynne received 597 votes, trailing Pupatello by only two votes.[29] Eric Hoskins received the fewest votes of the six candidates and was therefore eliminated. Hoskins threw his support behind Wynne while fourth place candidate Harinder Takhar announced he was endorsing Pupatello. On the second ballot Pupatello's lead grew to 67 votes over Wynne. Takhar, whose name was left on the second ballot, finished last and was eliminated from the race. Gerard Kennedy and Charles Sousa, who finished third and fourth respectively, withdrew from the race and both endorsed Wynne. With the support of both Kennedy and Sousa, her win was all but guaranteed on the third ballot. When the results of that ballot were announced Wynne received 57 per cent of the votes compared to 43 per cent for Pupatello.[30][31]
Premiership

Wynne was sworn in as Premier of Ontario on February 11, 2013, becoming the province's first female Premier, and the first premier in Canada to be openly gay. After 4 months prorogation of the legislature, Wynne resumed the house on February 17th, 2013.[32]
Gas Plant Scandal

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After resuming the legislature, Opposition Parties immediately accused Wynne of co-chairing the Liberal campaign that cancelled the gas plants in Mississauga and north east Oakville. Wynne stated publicly she wasn't in the gas plant meetings and wasn't involved in cancelling the gas plants. Wynne appointed the Auditor General to investigate the real cost of the cancelled gas plants and after months of investigation the Auditor General released the report on the gas plants and stated the cancellation of both gas plants would cost taxpayers $1.1 billion dollars. After the announcement from the Auditor General, Wynne apologized publicly and stated this will never happen under her watch.

Wynne re-established the legislative committees investigating the gas plants and testified that she didn't know about the cost of the gas plants and was extremely disappointed when she found out how expensive the real cost was. At committee, Wynne stated she was blocked from knowing the truth of the cancelled gas plants and the real cost. Also, Wynne stated at committee that former Premier Dalton McGuinty told her that it wasn't her business to know the truth and the real cost of the cancelled gas plants. On June 6th 2013, the OPP were called by Opposition Parties to start a police investigation into the new allegations of deleted emails regarding the gas plants and the next day on June 7th the OPP launched a criminal investigation into the deletion of the emails after the Privacy Commissioner ruled that the gas plant emails were illegally deleted.

On November 23rd 2013, Wynne authorized the OPP anti-rackets division to investigate the Office of the Premier to further their investigation into the deleted gas plant emails. On April 8th 2014, the OPP ruled out Wynne's involvement in the deletion of the emails and criminal destruction of government information regarding the gas plants and also ruled out Wynne's involvement in the cancellation of the gas plants. The OPP stated also that Wynne's office was not under investigation and that the suspects are Dalton McGuinty, McGuinty's former chief of staff David Livingston, McGuinty's deputy chief of staff Laura Miller and Peter Faist a computer tech. Wynne stated her office would continue their co-operation with the police investigation and would provide any further documents they need.

On March 24th 2014, Wynne introduced a piece of legislation called the Public Sector and MPP Accountability and Transparency Act which involved requiring all MPP's, cabinet ministers, parliamentary assistants, opposition leaders, and their respective staff to post their expense information online. The Public Sector and MPP Accountability and Transparency Act also expanded the powers of the Integrity Commissioner, expanded the powers of the Ontario Ombudsman by introducing a fine of $5,000 for the willful destruction of government records, and prohibited the destruction of records with intent to deny access to records and other accountability measure. This was in response to the previous administration's scandals under Dalton McGuinty's.
2013 Budget

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On March 21st 2013, Wynne introduced her government's first budget with measures that including a $295 million investment into a Youth Jobs Strategy to help tackle high youth unemployment rate, reducing auto insurance rates by 15 per cent saving motorists $225 a year, $260 million investment to boost home care health services for 46,000 seniors, $45 million investment into a Ontario Music Fund to help Ontario musicians, a $200 a month earnings exemption for those on Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program, $5 million into First Nations education, eliminated the employers health tax exemption for large companies, cancelled tax cuts for big businesses, extended the capital cost allowance for machinery and equipment, increased the Ontario Child Benefit frin $1,100 to $1,310 a year to support low-income families and other economic measures.
Education

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Wynne started immediate new collective bargaining negotiations with Ontario Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario after a year of labour distress of bill 115 that suspended collective bargaining rights, imposed contracts on teachers and suspended the right to strike. April 8th 2014, The Wynne government reached a new bargaining agreement with the teachers union and passed bill 122 the School Boards Collective Bargaining Act that restored the bargaining rights, the right to strike, keeps the wage freeze on teachers, eliminates the retirement gratuity for teachers that resulted in savings of $1 billion ,gives the province control over funding for schools and programs and gives the Minister powers to audit School Boards if disclosure of spending is not provided. Wynne established the Premier's Youth Advisory Council to share ideas, advise the Premier on issues facing youth and improve job opportunities for young people.
The Economy

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On January 30th 2014, Wynne announced her government was increasing the minimum wage from $10.25 to $11 after four years of freeze on the rate and introduced legislation to ensure future increases to the minimum wage to keep up with the CPI (Consumer Price Index). December 13th 2013, Wynne announced partnership with Cisco Canada and announced that the province would provide up to $190 million that would create 5,000 new jobs. May 2nd 2013, Wynne announced tax relief for small businesses by increasing the employers health tax exemption from $400,000 to $450,000.



2014 Election

After presenting a budget that both opposition parties stated they would not support, Wynne called an election scheduled for June 12, 2014.[33]
Personal life

Prior to her coming out as a lesbian at age 37[34] she was married to Phil Cowperthwaite,[35] with whom she had three children. She now lives with her partner[5] Jane Rounthwaite whom she married in July 2005 at Fairlawn Avenue United Church in Toronto.[34] Wynne is a member of the United Church of Canada.[36]
Electoral record
[hide]Ontario general election, 2011
PartyCandidateVotes%±pp
Liberal Kathleen Wynne 24,444 58.32 +7.9
Progressive Conservative Andrea Mandel-Campbell 12,827 30.60 -9.0
New Democratic Khalid Ahmed 3,621 8.64 +3.8
Green Louis Fliss 718 1.71 -3.1
Communist Dimitris Kabitsis 125 0.30
Independent (Vegan Environmental Party) Rosemary Waigh 108 0.26
Independent Soumen Deb 74 0.18
Total valid votes 41,917 100.00
Source: Elections Ontario.[37]

[hide]Ontario general election, 2007
PartyCandidateVotes%±pp
Liberal Kathleen Wynne 23,080 50.44 -2.15
Progressive Conservative John Tory 18,156 39.68 +0.72
Green Adrian Walker 2,202 4.81 +2.05
New Democratic Mike Kenny 2,138 4.67 -1.02
Family Coalition Daniel Kidd 183 0.40
Total valid votes 45,759 100.00
Source: Elections Ontario.[38]

[hide]Ontario general election, 2003
PartyCandidateVotes%±pp
Liberal Kathleen Wynne 23,488 52.59 +8.97
Progressive Conservative David Turnbull 17,394 38.95 -11.57
New Democratic Ali Naqvi 2,540 5.69 +1.00
Green Philip Hawkins 1,239 2.77
Total valid votes 44,661 100.00
Source: Elections Ontario.[39]

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Andrea Horwath (pronounced Horvath NDP Ontario

Andrea Horwath (pronounced Horvath; born October 24, 1962), is a Canadian politician. She is the Leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party in Canada. She is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Hamilton Centre, and was chosen as the party's leader at its 2009 leadership convention.

She is the first woman to lead the Ontario New Democratic Party, and only the second woman to serve as leader of a political party with representation in the provincial legislature.


Early life, education, early career

Horwath was born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, and has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Labour Studies from McMaster University in that city. She worked part-time as a waitress to pay her way through university. Her father Andrew, an ethnic Hungarian, had immigrated to Canada from Slovakia, and worked on the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Oakville, Ontario.[1] Her mother is of French and Irish descent. [2]

She worked closely with the Hamilton labour movement for several years, programming and providing literacy, numeracy and ESL training for workers. She subsequently got involved in the cooperative housing movement inWelland, and later became a community development coordinator for Hamilton's McQuesten Legal & Community Services, providing public legal education to groups working with tenants, injured workers and people with disabilities.

In 1996 Horwath earned a certificate of achievement in anti-racism training, and was an organizer of Hamilton's Days of Action campaign against provincial government cutbacks announced by Mike Harris. That year she received the Woman of the Year Award in Public Affairs from the Hamilton Status of Women Committee, in recognition of her work in the community. She also dedicated her time and efforts toward the field of social housing, and was subsequently awarded the Graham Emslie Award for Community Development in Housing by the Canadian Housing and Renewal Association.

She lives in Hamilton with her son Julian (born November 1992). In a March 2011 interview with the Toronto Star, she spoke publicly for the first time about the breakup of her longtime relationship with Julian's father, Hamilton businessman Ben Leonetti.[3] Horwath had met Ben Leonetti in her university years, when she was working part-time as a waitress and he was a jazz musician. The two lived together for 25 years without getting married, and split up in 2010.[4]
Early political career

In the Canadian federal election of 1997, she was the NDP candidate against incumbent Liberal Stan Keyes in the riding of Hamilton West. Although unsuccessful, her second-place finish was a significant improvement on previous NDP efforts in the riding, and gave her an increased level of prominence in the city.
City councillor

Later in 1997, she was elected to Hamilton City Council for Ward Two, outpolling two incumbents who had represented the area for more than 20 years. She emerged as a prominent voice for the political left in the city, and was re-elected to council in 2000 and 2003. During her three terms as city councillor, she chaired the solid waste management committee and the municipal non-profit housing corporation.
Provincial politics
By-election victory

Horwath was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in a 2004 by-election in the then-extant provincial riding of Hamilton East, defeating Liberal candidate Ralph Agostino to succeed the deceased Liberal member Dominic Agostino, Ralph's brother. Winning 63.6 per cent of the vote, up from the NDP's 29.4 per cent in that riding six months earlier, her landslide victory boosted the NDP's seat count over the threshold for official party status in the legislature, and helped give the federal New Democratic Party a bounce in Hamilton that would continue into the federal election shortly thereafter.
2007 election

In the 2007 election, Horwath ran in the new riding of Hamilton Centre, due to redistricting that divided her former Hamilton East riding between Hamilton Centre and the new riding of Hamilton East—Stoney Creek. Horwath's new Hamilton Centre riding included approximately half of her former riding as well as a portion of the former Hamilton West riding where she had run federally in 1997. It also included her entire former city council ward.

In the leadup to the campaign, Horwath was expected to face Hamilton West Liberal incumbent Judy Marsales. However, Marsales opted not to run for another term, and Horwath easily defeated Liberal candidate Steve Ruddick on election day.
2009 NDP leadership campaign

On November 7, 2008, Horwath officially launched her campaign to win the party's leadership. The leadership election was held March 6–8, 2009. Horwath led on the first two ballots, and won on the third ballot with 60.4% of the vote defeating Peter Tabuns, Gilles Bisson and Michael Prue.[5]
2011 election

The 2011 provincial election saw a rise in support for the NDP under Horwath's leadership. The party won more than 20% of the popular vote for the first time since 1995 and almost doubled its seats to elect 17 members of the legislature. The election also resulted in the Liberal government of Dalton McGuinty being reduced to a minority government with the NDP holding the balance of power.

In April 2012, Horwath passed a leadership review at the party's convention with 76% support.
Awards

In March 2012, Horwath received the EVE award which is sponsored by Equal Voice, a non-profit organization focused on promoting women in politics. Past recipients have included women from every level of government.[6]
Electoral record
Hamilton West - Canadian federal election, 1997
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Stan Keyes 20,951
New Democratic Andrea Horwath 7,648
Progressive Conservative John Findlay 6,510
Reform Ken Griffith 6,285
Natural Law Brian Rickard 323
Marxist–Leninist Wendell Fields 170

Hamilton East: By-election, 2004
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic Andrea Horwath 15,185 63.6
Liberal Ralph Agostino 6,362 26.6
Progressive Conservative Tara Crugnale 1,772 7.4
Green Raymond Dartsch 448 1.9 –
Independent John Turmel 120 0.5

Hamilton Centre - Ontario general election, 2007
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic Andrea Horwath 17,182 44.6
Liberal Steve Ruddick 11,042 28.7
Progressive Conservative Chris Robertson 5,711 14.8
Green Peter Ormond 3,703 9.6 –
Family Coalition Lynne Scime 553 1.4
Communist Bob Mann 316 0.8

Hamilton Centre - Ontario general election, 2011
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic Andrea Horwath 20,528 61.3 +16.7
Liberal Donna Tiqui-Shebib 5,852 17.5 -11.1
Progressive Conservative Don Sheppard 4,418 13.2 -1.6
Green Peter Ormond 1,243 3.7 -5.9
Libertarian Robert Kuhlman 634 1.9
Independent Micheal Baldasaro 268 0.8
Family Coalition Steve Passmore 229 0.7 -0.9
Communist Anthony Gracey 133 0.4 -0.4
Freedom Chris Lawson 128 0.4
Reform Robert Szajkowski 75 0.2
Total valid votes 33,508 100.0


Source: "Declared Candidates," The Hamilton Spectator July 23, 2011, A6, News,
Teri Pecoskie. "Liberals give lawyer Hamilton Centre nod," The Hamilton Spectator August 22, 2011, News
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Timothy Patrick "Tim" Hudak Early Early Politics Official opposition Political views

Timothy Patrick "Tim" Hudak (born November 1, 1967) is a politician in Ontario, Canada, and the Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (PC Party). He also serves as member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for the riding of Niagara West—Glanbrook.


Early life

Tim Hudak was born in Fort Erie, Ontario. His father was a high school principal whose parents came to Canada from Slovakia in advance of World War II.[2] His mother, Anne Marie nee Dillon, was a teacher of Irish/Franco-Ontarian descent. He has a younger sister, Tricia.[2]

Hudak attended the University of Western Ontario, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics in 1990. He then studied at the University of Washington in Seattle on a full scholarship. He received a master's degreein economics in 1993.[3]

While in college, Hudak worked at the Peace Bridge on the U.S. – Canada Border from 1988 to 1993.[2] In 1994, he was hired by Walmart as a travelling manager, instructing employees on the company's policies and operating procedures.[4]
Politics
Early political career

Hudak ran in the provincial election of 1995 in the riding of Niagara South. He defeated Liberal Aubrey Foley by 1,081 votes.[5] At the age of 27 Hudak was the second-youngest Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) elected in 1995, the youngest being John Baird.[6] The Progressive Conservatives won a majority government under Mike Harris, and Hudak was appointed Parliamentary Assistant to Minister of Health Jim Wilson. He later served as Parliamentary Assistant to Wilson's successor, Elizabeth Witmer.[7] During this term the government closed 28 hospitals and fired more than 6,000 nurses, However Hudak was also able to negotiate an agreement to exempt rural and northern hospitals from closure, including four in the Niagara region.[6][8]




Official opposition

In August 2009, shortly after taking power, Hudak criticized the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) after a string of controversies. The government had forced the resignation of several board members and, according to Canadian broadcaster CTV, Hudak "suggested the government was trying to pre-empt another eHealth-like scandal, and promised his party would "shine the light" on any Liberal misspending."[17] Following Hudak's opposition, Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan fired the corporation's CEO, Kelly McDougald, "for cause".[18] The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) also reported that a freedom-of-information request by Hudak's Tories was behind the shakeup. According to Hudak, the Liberals "knew it would be coming up in the opening session of the legislature, [so they] put it out today to head off the scandal.... But you're not going to stop the scandalous spending until [Premier Dalton] McGuinty sets the tone by firing one of his ministers."[18]

On September 10, 2009, Hudak delivered his first major speech as Party leader to the Economic Club of Canada. In his speech, Hudak attacked the Liberals for unnecessary spending at eHealth and OLG,[19] as well as giving a $263-million grant to a video game developer.[19]

On October 19, 2009, Hudak launched a petition to support the new West Lincoln Memorial Hospital (WLMH) in West Niagara.[20] The petition called on the McGuinty government as well as the Minister of Health to stop the Hamilton-Niagara-Haldimand-Brant Local Health Integration Network from delaying the construction of the new hospital.[20]



In the midst of the fall legislative session, Hudak launched one of his first major platform pieces, the PC Caucus Small Business Jobs Plan, which he stated was essential to Ontario's economic recovery.[21] Also during the fall of 2009, Hudak and his party ramped up their opposition to the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST).[22] The HST, came into effect July 1, 2010, blended the previous eight per cent provincial sales tax with the five per centGoods and Services Tax (GST).

By the end of 2009, polls indicated that under Hudak’s leadership, the Ontario PC Party jumped from a distant second to a double-digit lead.[23] The Party’s first year under Hudak’s leadership wrapped up with the Conservative’s Northern Ontario Jobs plan, a plan to restore jobs and economic growth to Ontario’s vast north. “The big picture here is that [when] developing economies like China and India grow, and the American economy rebounds, there will be a massive appetite for Ontario’s wood products and minerals and other resources,“ Hudak said.[24]

Hudak also criticized the McGuinty’s government’s approach on Ontario’s nuclear industry.[25] In line with his plan for the North, Hudak commented that “Reducing Northern Ontario's high energy costs is key to making industries there more profitable and preventing future mill closures.”[26]

In March 2010 by-elections, the Tories retained retired MPP Bob Runciman's riding of Leeds-Grenville, boosting their support by 19 points to 67 per cent of the vote. The party lost a second race in Ottawa West-Nepean to former Ottawa mayor and former MPP Bob Chiarelli, although they improved their showing over results of the 2007 election. In a third by-election held in Toronto Centre on the same day, the Progressive Conservative candidate came in third with fifteen percent of the vote.[27]

Later in April, Hudak and the Ontario PC party focused Question Period on Local Health Integrated Network (LHIN), a system of regional health authorities established by the McGuinty government. Offering examples of sole-sourced contracting, Hudak hammered the government for broken promises and removing money from front-line care. Hudak said the amount of money being paid in six-figure salaries to LHIN executives and managers had nearly doubled since 2006. Hudak promised to dissolve the LHINs if he were to win the Ontario general election in 2011.[28]

On Canada Day, 2010, the controversial harmonized sales tax (HST) came into effect across the province of Ontario. Tim Hudak responded by saying, “Dalton McGuinty will do what he does best, raising taxes on hard-working families. People will feel it at first at the pumps overnight. Next they will get hit with it on their utility bills."[29][30]

Hudak also vowed to eliminate the eco-tax, a fee on certain environmentally harmful products brought in by McGuinty, if he were elected Premier.[31]

In August 2010, Ontario Ombudsman André Marin exposed a bylaw that enables local health bureaucrats to hold closed-door meetings on hospital closures. Controversial decisions on hospital restructuring in the Niagara-area health unit could now be open to judicial review due to the use of the bylaw by the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network. Premier McGuinty had been responsible for establishing all of the 14 LHINs. In response to Marin’s report, Hudak committed to abolish the LHINs and redirect $200 million in savings back to the health system.[32]

On May 26, 2011, Hudak proposed a highly controversial plan to implement mandatory street-cleaning "work gangs" made up of provincial inmates, replacing current voluntary programs. This program was described as modern-day "chain gangs" by Hudak's critics, who pointed out that such a program would be costly to implement and could pose significant security risks to the public, along with eliminating these entry-level jobs from the paid workforce.[33]

A Nanos Research poll released on August 16, 2011 found that fewer than one in four voters describe Hudak as the most trustworthy leader. Among women, the number was one in five.[34]

Hudak faced criticism from party members after the Progressive Conservatives won only one out of five seats being contested in a series of by-elections on August 1, 2013. 10 party members have petititioned the party to allow a leadership review at the party's policy convention in the fall and two MPPs, Frank Klees and Randy Hillier, have called on Hudak to allow the review to proceed.[35][36]

Tim Hudak and fellow MPP Lisa MacLeod are currently being sued for libel by Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne for saying she “oversaw and possibly ordered the criminal destruction of [gas plant] documents.”[37] Wynne denies she had any knowledge or involvement of the allegations made.

Hudak's party also faces a subsequent lawsuit over statements made on its website brought forward by the Working Families Coalition.[38] The union-backed group that has funded attack ads and has previously been chided by the party for its support of the Ontario Liberal Party.[39]
Political views[edit]

Numerous pundits have labelled Hudak as a blue Tory who is on the right-wing of the PC Party of Ontario, though Hudak has called himself a "purple Tory".[40][41][42] He has proposed income splitting for young couples and families, and campaigned to scrap the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, replacing it with a courts-based system of settling complaints.[43] Hudak's wife Deb Hutton was a senior advisor to Mike Harris, and he is seen by some as the new standard-bearer for the Mike Harris Common Sense Revolution.[44]

When he was running for the PC leadership in 2009, Hudak told the Association for Reformed Political Action that he is pro-life and had signed petitions calling for the defunding of abortions.[45] However on July 18, 2011, during the lead-up to the October 6 provincial election, Hudak stated that he “may have” signed petitions calling for an end to abortion funding. He refused to answer follow-up questions from media regarding his views on abortion, but promised that he would not reopen the abortion debate if elected premier.[46]

In December 2012, Hudak announced that if he were to form government he would allow beer, wine and spirits to be sold at corner stores throughout the province. Hudak also said he would sell part of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario or some of its stores, to the private sector and is open to the idea of a full sell-off of the LCBO.[47] Although the McGuinty government had rejected the idea of selling alcohol in corner stores in the Summer of 2012, weeks after Hudak's announcement they launched a pilot project to allow alcohol to be sold in supermarkets.[48][49]

In April 2013, Hudak met with the National Post's editorial board to discuss education issues in Ontario. Among other things, he was asked about Ontario's publicly funded Roman Catholic school system, which operates in parallel with the public system. Hudak suggested that parents from other religions have "legitimate concerns", but expressed no interest in changing the status quo.[50]


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Trustworthy Computing, Microsoft. Updating Internet Explorer and Driving Security

Updating Internet Explorer and Driving Security




The security of our products is something we take incredibly seriously, so the news coverage of the last few days about a vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) has been tough for our customers and for us. We take a huge amount of pride that, among widely used browsers, IE is the safest in the world due to its secure development and ability to protectcustomers, even in the face of cybercriminals who want to break it.

This means that when we saw the first reports about this vulnerability we said fix it, fix it fast, and fix it for all our customers. So we did. The update that does this goes live today at 10 a.m. PDT.

If you are like most people, you have automatic updates turned on, and you’ll get this new update without having to do anything. If you haven’t turned on automatic updates yet, you should do so now. Click the “Check for Updates” button on the Windows Update portion of your Control Panel to get this going.

One of the things that drove much of this coverage was that it coincided with the end of support for Windows XP. Of course we’re proud that so many people loved Windows XP, but the reality is that the threats we face today from a security standpoint have really outpaced the ability to protect those customers using an operating system that dates back over a decade. This is why we’ve been encouraging Windows XP customers to upgrade to a modern, more secure operating system like Windows 7 or Windows 8.1.

Even though Windows XP is no longer supported by Microsoft and is past the time we normally provide security updates, we’ve decided to provide an update for all versions of Windows XP (including embedded), today. We made this exception based on the proximity to the end of support for Windows XP. The reality is there have been a very small number of attacks based on this particular vulnerability and concerns were, frankly, overblown. Unfortunately this is a sign of the times and this is not to say we don’t take these reports seriously. We absolutely do.

Just because this update is out now doesn’t mean you should stop thinking about getting off Windows XP and moving to a newer version of Windows and the latest version of Internet Explorer. If you are on Windows 7, upgrade to Internet Explorer 11. Our modern operating systems provide more safety and security than ever before. The latest version of Internet Explorer has increased support for modern web standards, better performance, and expanded the ability to deliver an immersive experience from within the browser. In other words, cool stuff that you need even if you didn’t know you need it. And when you turn on auto update, we make sure your computer and your browser get better all the time.

This connected world, which brings so much goodness to consumers and businesses, also has a dark side: people and organizations who seek to disrupt technology use and steal information. We are standing guard. We’ve compiled an admirable track record over the last decade in the way we build our products with security at the core and the way we update them every single month to be more secure, chock full of privacy protections, more reliable – more trustworthy.

Today, we made our browser a bit safer. Next month, it will be better still. You can count on us.






Security, Trustworthy Computing

Statement from the Interim Privacy Commissioner of Canada regarding telecommunications companies’ responses to information requests from government authorities

Statement from the Interim Privacy Commissioner of Canada regarding telecommunications companies’ responses to information requests from government authorities

OTTAWA, April 30, 2014 – Interim Privacy Commissioner of Canada Chantal Bernier today issued the following statement regarding her Office’s requests to telecommunications companies and other online businesses about information requests from government authorities:

In 2011, our Office was examining issues related to online tracking and cloud computing in preparations for a legislative review of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). We were also preparing to appear before Parliament on a series of legislative initiatives related to lawful access provisions. As part of our research, we sent letters to 13 telecommunications companies and other online businesses, asking them to consider providing our Office with some general information related to requests for information from government authorities.

In December of that year, we received a response from the independent counsel for the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) with the aggregated data from nine companies. The report did not attribute responses to any one provider but reflected practices representative of the industry in Canada. We have since used this information to inform our thinking and recommendations, both to Parliament and government.

PIPEDA does not require organizations to report publicly on the type of information they disclose in response to the requests from government authorities. However, our Office has asked for more transparency in this area.

In our recent Special Report to Parliament: Checks and Controls, we made a number of recommendations to increase transparency for national security agencies without compromising their public safety objectives. In particular, Recommendation 6 calls for legislative amendments to require public reporting of statistics on the use of various disclosure provisions under PIPEDA where private-sector entities such as telecommunications companies release personal information to national security entities without court oversight.

As well, last year, our PIPEDA reform policy position paper also called for more transparency. Of particular relevance to this issue is Recommendation 3: Lift the veil on authorized disclosures, which recommends that organizations be required to publicly report on the number of disclosures they make to law enforcement under paragraph 7(3)(c.1), without knowledge or consent, and without judicial warrant, in order to shed light on the frequency and use of this extraordinary exception.

We remain hopeful that our recommendations will be implemented.

Chantal Bernier
Interim Privacy Commissioner of Canada