Ontario Hansard - 10-March2010

Mr. Peter Tabuns: My question is for the Premier. According to the New York Times, Goldman Sachs, your Wall Street privatization consultant, set up a garage sale of Greek government assets to deal with their deficit earlier this decade. You're moving to give away decades of future revenue for a quick cash influx. When you say we won't have a fire sale of Ontario assets, does that mean we're going to have a Goldman Sachs-supervised garage sale of Ontario assets?

The Speaker (Hon. Steve Peters): Supplementary?

Mr. Peter Tabuns: Well, that's certainly not the approach that this Premier took when he opposed Ernie Eves's sell-off of Ontario's assets. This Premier is starting a process towards full privatization of Ontario's key assets.

Premier, you're desperately looking for cash in the run-up to the election. Why should anyone believe that you won't do another deal as bad as the 407?