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Wed love to have you join us! w w w .i n si d eH A LT O N .c o m O A K V IL LE B EA V ER Th ur sd ay , S ep te m be r 15 , 2 01 1 4 He said in 2003 four out of 10 children who started high school did not finish. The Liberals have changed that and now Ontario has the best public education system in the English-speaking world. Everybodys got good ideas. Somebodys got to implement them. Weve got a track record that Im proud to stand on, he said. The candidates were asked about devel- oping a local economy. Sprague said her party will create jobs. The money that has gone to no-strings attached corporate giveaways is going to be put into helping small businesses and other businesses to create new jobs, she said. She said these jobs will be created for everyone, not just a select few. She said her government will work with municipalities on transit to get people to and from work, it will add more frontline healthcare workers and it will support the arts and culture community. Scott said the Ontario unemployment rate has been higher than the national average for 54 months and the Liberal eco- nomic and energy policies have stifled job creation. Because small business is the engine of growth in our economy, we would reduce the red tape that small business has, he said. If all small business was able to hire one more person in Ontario, we would find that there was no unemployment problem in Ontario. Flynn said Ontario has become the number one auto-manufacturing jurisdic- tion in North America. What the province has done with the auto industry, Flynn said his government wants to do with the green energy sector. He said as oil prices are rising, green energy costs are going down and that needs to be the future. Flynn said Siemens Canada is putting its head office in Oakville because of Ontarios green energy act and because of the Provinces agreement with Samsung that will create 16,000 jobs in the province to build green energy products. The Conservatives say they would rip that contract up, he said. Imagine what that would do to our reputation interna- tionally. Harris said the province needs to create sustainable jobs, which will not happen through government subsidies as some of the other parties have pledged. We have to remodel the green energy act to create opportunity for more micro- fit projects, to create an industry for solar in Ontario, he said. The way were doing it now is not cost-effective, in my opin- ion. He said small businesses have to be sup- ported and those supports cannot wait. Ways to support businesses are by lowering business taxes and reducing government red tape. With the Oakville power plant project cancelled, the candidates were asked how they would handle the needs of growing electricity needs. Harris said he supports nuclear power, as it is the lowest cost method of providing electricity, at three to eight cents per kW/ hr, whereas solar is at 82 cents. I know its scary. Most of you dont like nuclear, but the reality is most of our power comes from nuclear right now, he said. Harris said solar has to be invested in to make it accessible to a wide market and not at 82 cents. It must be used to get homes and businesses off the grid to reduce the environmental impact, rather than solar panels being used as just another grid power plant as it is currently used. Flynn said when the Liberals inherited government in 2003, the electrical system was in a state of chaos. There was no reli- ability, coal was heavily used and Ontario was forced to import from the U.S. One of the proudest moments of my life was when I was able to stand before the people of Oakville and tell them we have won, that the power plant was not coming to Oakville, he said. He said Ontario will be off coal by 2014 with nuclear providing the base load, with fa balance of sources to take up the rest o the energy needs. Scott said the TransCanada plant should have never been proposed at its location. I buy into the C4CA argument that we fnever should place the health and safety o citizens at risk in Oakville and thats what that plant was, he said. Sprague said her partys plan is to help people retrofit their homes to encourage conservation, not consumption. Conservation is step one to providing power, she said. We have to have energy efficient homes, appliances, then we will be using less power. She said wind and solar technologies must be invested in, and Oakville could be at the forefront of that development. The candidates also talked about topics such as education, healthcare, provincial budget and more. Candidates discuss energy and employment issues Continued from page 3 Everybody's got good ideas. Somebody's got to implement them. We've got a track record that I'm proud to stand on. Oakville MPP Kevin Flynn