Apply for the new "30-percent-off" Ontario Tuition grant

Keeping post-secondary education affordable means helping with tuition fees for the 2012 winter semester. The new grant will ensure postsecondary education remains accessible and affordable. University or college degree students save $800 and college diploma, and certificate students $365 for this semester.

Premier's speech outlines the economic road ahead

Premier Dalton McGuinty's speech to the Canadian Club of Toronto, outlined the challenges facing Ontario, the progress the Province has made, the challenges in balancing the Ontario Budget, and what Ontarians can expect in the years ahead.

Less government red tape for Ontario businesses

Ontario has eliminated more than 80,000 regulatory requirements to cut red tape and make the Province a more attractive place to invest and do business. The HST alone eliminated 5,000 pages of outdated rules, regulations and procedures. The savings to business: $500 million each and every year!

Court costs uploaded. Peel Region saves $9.4 million

Ontario is providing the three municipalities in Peel Region: the cities of Mississauga and Brampton and the town of Caledon with funding for court security. This amounts to savings this year of nearly $9.4 million in the first phase of the program to upload court costs.

Promise kept: tuition grant now available!

During the 2011 Provincial Election, we promised a thirty percent tuition grant for eligible Ontario residents. The grant was passed and eligible students can now apply. You'll get your money within a few weeks of having your application approved. Promise kept.

New Ontario energy and property tax credit in 2011

To assist Ontario seniors, those on fixed incomes, and low- to moderate-income Ontario families with rising energy costs, Ontario will rebate you ten percent of your electricity bill for the next five years, and also introduce a new Ontario Senior Homeowners’ Property Tax Grant with up to $500.

New Ontario Photo ID Card now available in Mississauga!

For non drivers, or seniors who no longer choose to drive, new Canadians who don't need to drive, the visually impaired and others, Ontario now has a recognized photo ID so that you can board a flight, open a bank account, cash a cheque and do many other little tasks without having to haul your passport with you everywhere. It is now available in Mississauga at the ServiceOntario location at the Westdale Mall. Click for more info.

Recent YouTube video clips of Bob

Some recent YouTube clips of significance: Remembrance Day 2011 message to Lisgar, Meadowvale and Lisgar; Bob speaking on the Ontario economy in the Legislature this past spring; the truth about the "debt retirement charge" on your hydro bill, and a YouTube video of Bob speaking in the Legislature on the debt retirement charge.

Definitive word on the HST. Take that, talk radio!

Should a noisy group of angry people take away the substantial benefits of more jobs, lower taxes and greater investment from 13 million of us in Ontario? They tried, but failed. Here is what to copy and paste into your messages to those chain e-mails the perpetually angry still send.

The social media revolution in keeping in touch

Use the web software you use every day to keep in contact with me, with your government and with the issues that concern you most. Join the Mississauga Seniors group, or join the Mississauga Taxpayer group. Become one of Bob's Facebook fans.

Video Blogs: Statements by Bob on YouTube

Speaking on what matters: Needing the best minds in Mississauga Research; Making a difference in health care.

What's new on this web site?

• Blogs: Sample of Mississauga Taxpayer Yahoo! Group;
• Ontario seniors and tax reform: 2010 Revision;
• Say your piece on tax reform: It's important.

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