Randy Hillier welcomes independent contractors from across Ontario to the Fix the WSIB Rally at Queen's Park. Randy asks the Minister of Labour why the Liberal Government has forced contractors to choose between redundant, inferior WSIB coverage and going out of business. Minister Naqvi fails to justify his Government's actions completely. 

Randy Hillier introduced a motion yesterday calling on the Government to resurrect Bill 16 for third reading. 

University of Saskatchewan Law Professor Dwight Newman just wrote a paper about amending the constitution to protect property rights. He seems to think that the proposal Scott Reid, MP and Randy Hillier, MPP tabled would work to enshrine property rights in the constitution.

I sat down with Ian Sutton during his In Focus segment and we discussed newly appointed Premier Kathleen Wynne's Cabinet shopping spree, as well as the return of the legislature next tuesday and my recent town halls regarding the Algonquin Land Claim Agreement-in-Principle.

Within minutes of becoming the 25th Premier of the Province of Ontario and with over a week before she’ll take her seat in the House as Premier, Kathleen Wynne has already blown $200,000 of taxpayer money appointing five additional cabinet ministers: each garners a $40,000 a year raise.

Below please take a moment and read the letter I sent to Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Chris Lewis. In the letter I express the concerns many have shared with me; that they worry the OPP will not enforce the terms of the agreement. 

Published on February 7, 2013 in the EMC Perth

EMC News - While the Perth Legion hall is far removed from the flying banners and protests of the Idle No More movement, the ongoing national debate about Canada's relationship with the First Nations peoples still came to the surface last week.

As the long winter of parliamentary dissolution finally draws to an end - it'll be 127 days since Premier McGuinty prorogued the house - and the weekly sojourns to Queens Park recommence, it's time for more Scuttlebutt from Queen's Park. This Scuttlebutt tells the story of Land Claims, Labour Pains and Political Shames in the week past and the week ahead.

Published on January 30th, 2013 in the EMC Perth

PERTH - Randy Hillier came face to face with protesters fighting bed closures at the Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital this week in a sometimes testy exchange.

Published on January 23rd, 2013 in the EMC Perth

PERTH - MPP Randy Hillier is dismissing a campaign by hospital unions to fight for more money for the Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital as simply fighting for their piece of the pie.