Auto insurance and other gouges

Re: Mixed reviews for plan to reduce auto insurance premiums, by Dave Waddell, Aug. 23.

To cut 15 per cent on auto insurance premiums, the Ontario Liberal government estimates the average driver will save $225 annually when the announced reforms are fully implemented.

Thanks to NDP for propping up the same old McGuinty-Wynne Liberal government in order to save the drivers $225 a year but cost them and all of us much more with higher taxes, fees, tolls and billions more debt.

Just the interest alone, we are paying over $10 billion a year now. The NDP hurts us more than helps.

Besides, with the 15 per cent drop on the premiums, the government didn't tell us if our insurance coverage or the services will be dropped at the same time. if it does, where is the savings? By ordering the businesses to drop their rates as the Ontario Liberal-NDP coalition government did, it makes the businesses feel that they are not welcome to do business here in Ontario. Can a government order the stores to drop their prices? Instead of hitting hard on the businesses, the government should hit hard on the crimes in which cost the $1.6 billion of fraud insurance companies face annually.

We can manage the system more efficiently to cut the wastes and bureaucrats in the system.

For a better Ontario, we need to have a government know how to balance books, cutting the waste and bureaucrats in the system, a government that knows how to create more jobs through private businesses, not to kill the businesses with all kind of taxes, fees and red tape.

Let us hope for a new government that would be able to increase our economy productivity by 15 per cent or more and reduce the oversized government the Ontario taxpayers can afford.

HENRY LAU, Ontario PC candidate,

Windsor West

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