MEDIA ADVISORY - OPSEU to put the spotlight on corporate tax cuts at Liberal
Party fundraiser

HAMILTON, ON, Nov. 26 /CNW/ - Premier Dalton McGuinty and his cabinet ministers will be greeted by a ring master and a roulette wheel when they go into a $300-a-plate fundraiser on Monday.

The Premier and his supporters will be asked to spin the wheel and answer the question: How should Ontario invest $2.4 billion? In tax cuts to big banks and corporations, or in job creation and quality public services?

When:	Monday, November 29
What:	Hamilton Trillium Dinner for the Ontario Liberal Party
Where:	Liuna Station
	360 James Street North
	Hamilton, ON
What time:	5:30 p.m.

OPSEU members are campaigning against the Premier's $2.4 billion-a-year cut to the corporate income tax rate as one million public sector workers are being asked to take a wage cut equal to the rate of inflation.

"A wage freeze for the workers who defend children from abuse and neglect, protect your health card from fraud and train the workforce of the future, doesn't make sense when every single dollar they give up will go to pay for corporate tax cuts," said OPSEU Regional Vice-President, Mike Grimaldi.

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

"The best investment for Ontario right now is the jobs and services that will make our province stronger today and in the future," said Grimaldi.

OPSEU is holding rallies at Liberal events across the province.

For further information:

Mike Grimaldi, Regional Vice-president, OPSEU, cell [phone]

Debbie Tungatt, Executive Board Member, OPSEU, cell: [phone]