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News UpdatesSHARE YOUR HORROR STORIES OF McGUINTY'S RED TAPE NIGHTMARE
Posted Jan-19-2010
Runciman invites Leeds-Grenville businesses to tell their stories of over-regulation Jan. 19, 2010 BROCKVILLE. Leeds-Grenville MPP Bob Runciman is urging local businesses to share their horror stories of red tape in Dalton McGuinty’s Ontario by going to the new website, tiredofredtape.ca. The Progressive Conservative caucus has just launched the new website to find out more about Ontarians’ experiences with burdensome regulations. The Ontario PC Caucus Small Business Jobs Plan calls on the McGuinty Government to immediately take steps to reduce the red tape and regulatory burden strangling Ontario employers. “One of the things I hear most as I travel the riding is that excessive regulation is choking off initiative in the most dynamic sector of the economy – small business,” Runciman said. “Combine this red tape run amok with Dalton McGuinty’s high taxes and it’s no wonder the economy is struggling and unemployment is too high.” As part of its first-ever Red Tape Awareness Week, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business unveiled a comprehensive report called “Prosperity Restricted by Red Tape.” The report found that only Manitoba beat Ontario on a measure of whether or not CFIB members felt red tape had increased in their province over the previous three years. The regulatory burden on Ontario businesses is nearly $11 billion a year, according to the report. “That’s money that could be going to creating jobs and ensuring the province’s future prosperity,” Runciman said. The CFIB sharply criticized Ontario for having no publicly reported measure for red tape, no current measurement of red tape, and no permanent (legislated) commitment to report on red tape. The PC jobs plan would reinstate a Red Tape Commission to eliminate unnecessary regulations that punish small businesses, along with a moratorium on new regulations that affect small business until the commission is in place to reduce the overall regulatory burden. “I’d encourage everyone who has been victimized by excessive regulation to go to tiredofredtape.ca and have your say,” Runciman said.
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