NDP not saying yet what changes they want to support minority Liberal budget
Posted Apr 2, 2012 10:31:44 AM.
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TORONTO, Ont. – Ontario’s New Democrats will talk about the budget Monday, but won’t say exactly what changes they want in exchange for supporting the Liberal minority government.
The Conservatives vow to vote against the budget, so the Liberals need at least two NDP votes or their government will fall, triggering another election.
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath will begin her party’s official reaction in the legislature Monday afternoon, but will not be revealing any proposed amendments just yet.
Horwath will instead talk about what the public is telling the NDP they want changed.
The NDP likes the budget’s delay in corporate tax cuts, but opposes its threat to legislate a pay freeze for about one-million public-sector workers.
The New Democrats received more than 5,000 e-mails and phone calls to a hotline they set up after Tuesday’s budget.
