Gilbank disappointed with PC platform

York- Simcoe provincial Liberal candidate John Gilbank is disappointed in the recent platform announcement by Progressive Conservative leader John Tory.

Tory recently released a policy platform, which Gilbank said would take Ontario back to the era of cuts to health care, cuts to education and backwards to budget deficits.

"Residents of York - Simcoe have lived through these cuts in the past," he commented. "The McGuinty government was elected to fix our education and health care systems and now John Tory wants to take us back to massive cuts in both. We have moved so far forward in the past few years, I don't think Ontarians want to leave all of our progress behind."

Among the more than 230 uncosted promises made in Tory's platform, Ontarians would see $500 million taken out of our public schools and handed over to private schools and opening medicare to private health clinics, according to a media release issued by Gilbank.

"The reality is that test scores are improving throughout the province and we haven't had teacher strikes on McGuinty's watch," he added. "It's too bad the Tories want to dismantle all the progress that's been made on the education front."