Friday, May 22, 2009

Tory Contenders Propose Cutting PST

2009-05-22

12:55:19

Two of the four Progressive Conservative leadership hopefuls are promising to cut Ontario's eight per cent sales tax if the party wins the 2011 election.

During a debate in London, all four Tory leadership contenders said they opposed harmonizing the PST with the federal goods and services tax.

But Frank Klees and Randy Hillier went beyond vowing to fight harmonization by pledging to cut the provincial tax, with Hillier going so far as to say he'd cut it by three percentage points.