MEDIA ADVISORY - OPSEU to protest corporate tax cuts in more than 20
communities, December 3

TORONTO, Dec. 2 /CNW/ - Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) members are holding information pickets at over 20 locations across the province on Friday, December 3. They are protesting the McGuinty government's $2.4 billion-a-year cut to corporate income taxes.

OPSEU members will be conducting a street poll, asking the public: How should Ontario invest $2.4 billion? Create good jobs, invest in health care, education, children's services and other priorities, or cut corporate taxes?

In an August poll of 1,000 Ontarians by Angus Reid, 75 per cent said the McGuinty government should cancel the corporate tax cuts.  

"When we ask people this question, we find they want the money spent on things that will benefit the public good, not on making rich corporations like the Royal Bank, Rogers and Imperial Oil even richer," said OPSEU President, Warren (Smokey) Thomas.

The $2.4 billion that the Liberals have started to give away in corporate tax cuts amounts to more than $500 from every household in Ontario.

OPSEU has been protesting corporate tax cuts at Ontario Liberal fundraisers and events since April 2010.

EVENTS

Brockville: contact Brian Carnovale: 613-483-8255.

Guelph: contact Robyn Lambe: 226-820-6100

Hamilton: contact Cindy Falcao: 905-541-8050

Hawkesbury: contact Louise Charette: 613-406-6931

Kingston: contact Daryl O'Grady: 613-329-6365

Lindsay: contact Stacey Tomblin: 705-760-0178

London: contacts Lisa Fewster: 519-902-0630, Kim McDowell: 519 765-8660

New Liskeard: contact Frank Wright: 705-568-7164

North Bay: contact Jo-Ann Wilson: 705-471-0387

Oshawa: contact Cindy Hayes-Wright: 705-872-2594

Ottawa: contact Louise Charette: 613-406-6931

Owen Sound: contact Deb Farrar: 519-387-2351

Peterborough: contact Pete Wright: 705-741-8349

Sault Ste. Marie: contact Dennis Ginter: 705-541-8402

St. Catharines: contact Mike Grimaldi: 289-213-3088

St. Thomas: contacts Kim McDowell: 519 765-8660, Steve Abdey: 519 494-8276

Strathroy: contact Doug Paris: 519-614-4193

Sudbury: contact Denise McKenzie: 705-918-2751

Toronto: contact Tracy MacMaster: 416-556-8259

Thunder Bay: contact Owen Smith: 807-252-7020

Windsor: contact Helen Haggith: 519-999-2243

For further information:

Emily Visser, OPSEU Bilingual Communications Officer: 416-854-8598