Opposition parties aren’t giving up the fight to stop Ontario’s plan to merge sales taxes next year, and say thousands of people are behind them.
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath says more than 50,000 people have signed her party’s petition to stop the plan she calls an
unfair tax grab on everyday essentials.
Horwath says she’s confident those numbers will swell as more and more people understand the implications of the change.
The Tories have their own online petition.
Revenue Minister John Wilkinson says those he’s talked to
understand that merging the sales tax and G-S-T reflects changing economic conditions and is meant to attract more jobs to the province.