(QUEEN’S PARK) Yesterday, Dalton McGuinty announced that the Government of Ontario will be giving away $30 million of taxpayer’s money to set up a scholarship fund for foreign students. The scholarship fund will provide foreign students with $40,000 per year in an attempt to lure them to Ontario.
“Many Ontario families struggle with the costs of sending their children to a program at university or college,” said Mr. Hillier. “Dalton McGuinty believes now is an appropriate time to tell cash-strapped Ontario families that not only does their government not care about their financial struggles, he is going to give their hard earned tax dollars to foreign students.”
While Dalton McGuinty is off jet-setting to China to announce this new scholarship fund, his own Ministers have been left scrambling for answers to explain yet another blatant abuse of Ontario tax dollars. McGuinty’s Training, Colleges, and Universities Minister John Milloy has attempted to pass this off as a minimal expense for Ontario in comparison to the money the McGuinty government provides to Ontario students.
According to the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) website however, in 2009/2010, the Government of Ontario only provided $30 Million in scholarships to graduate students. Of these 2000 scholarships handed out to graduate students, 60 are already provided to foreign visa students.
“With yesterday’s decision, Dalton McGuinty and his out-of-touch Liberals have made clear that they believe 75 foreign students should receive as much as all the graduate students in Ontario, combined,” Hillier concluded. “The PC Party believes that our universities are second to none, and can attract foreign students on their own. A PC government will put Ontario Families first.”
Randy Hillier, MPP Lanark Frontenac Lennox, is a co-founder of the Lanark Landowners Association, which was brought to life to address government imposition on the rights of private property owners, and to address the regressive regulatory impositions that government was bringing down upon farmers and business owners in rural Ontario.
In 2006, Randy resigned as President of the OLA in order to run as a candidate for the Progressive Conservatives. Randy was elected in the 2007 provincial election.
Randy a long-time resident of Lanark County, an electrician by trade and member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), continues to co-publish and edit rural Ontario’s successful magazine “The Landowner.”
