For the past several weeks, people from across Ontario have had the opportunity to have their say on the proposed wind turbines on Amherst Island. Hundreds of respondents from across Ontario had their say - take a look at the results. 

I sat down with Ian Sutton today during his In Focus segment on Lake 88 and we discussed the new exorbitant eco-fees on farm tires, changes at the Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital and a host of other things. 

Randy Hillier, MPP for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington, rose in the House today in support of MPP Jim Wilson's "Capacity to Pay Act". Local municipalities have been fiscally hand-strung by arbitration decisions awarding millions of dollars to more than well-compensated public sector workers, who make between 15-30% more than their private sector counterparts. Instead of driving up property taxes on young families, on seniors and on hard-working folks across the Province, we need to reform our arbitration system to realize that places like Smiths Falls have a different capacity to pay than Windsor or Sudbury or Toronto do.

Randy Hillier, MPP for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington, speaks to Bill 11 and makes clear the point that public debate is one of the few methods we have to safeguarding democracy. Without institutions to protect us from the excesses of "subordinate bodies" like third party agencies, we shouldn't be surprised when something like ORNGE happens.

I fully understand that the legislative process in this Province can be confusing and I thought it might be helpful to explain to you the difficult place our Bill to repeal breed specific legislation in Ontario is in.