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.

(QUEEN's PARK) - Randy Hillier, MPP for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington, condemned the McGuinty Liberal Government over Ontario's overpriced justice system and the McGuinty Liberals' inability to deal with their spending addiction.

(Perth) - On November 15th and 16th, MPP Randy Hillier and MP Scott Reid presented Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Awards to a number of recipients from Lanark, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington, in two ceremonies held in Napanee and Perth, respectively.

The Diamond Jubilee medals commemorate Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s accession to the Throne 60 years ago, and her service to Canada. Recipients of the awards were nominated by their peers for outstanding service to their community, to the Province of Ontario, and/or to Canada.

(QUEEN’S PARK) – Today, MPP Randy Hillier, Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington, delivered a petition to the Lieutenant Governor signed by over 2,600 people displaying their outrage with Premier Dalton McGuinty’s prorogation of the Ontario Legislature.

(Toronto) - PC Party Labour Critic Randy Hillier and Leader Tim Hudak unveiled a bold new policy white paper on Labour reform Paths to Prosperity: Flexible Labour Markets.

(Queen’s Park) - Randy Hillier, MPP (Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington) presented a motion in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to amend Canada’s Constitution, embedding property rights for the people of Ontario within the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. If passed in the Legislative Assembly and in the Canadian House of Commons, the resolutions will, under the terms of the amending formula in Section 43 of the Constitution Act, 1982, become part of the Constitution of Canada.

(QUEEN’S PARK) - Randy Hillier, Ontario PC Labour Critic, introduced the final two pieces of legislation yesterday as part of his series on labour reform. Hillier introduced the third and fourth Bills of his four-part package for labour reform in Ontario.

(Queen's Park) - MPP Randy Hillier, Ontario PC Labour Critic, introduced legislation today to defend workers’ choice. Randy was joined at Queen’s Park today with various contractors from across Ontario. The Defending Employee’s Rights Act (Collective Bargaining and Financial Disclosure by Trade Unions), 2012, is the start of a series of labour reform Bills that Randy Hillier will be introducing in the coming weeks.

(QUEEN’S PARK) - MPP Randy Hillier, Ontario PC Critic for Labour, tabled The Trust in Arbitration Act yesterday. The legislation is the Ontario PC’s strong response to the McGuinty Government’s ongoing shell game with public sector union negotiations.

“For several years now we Conservatives, along with countless others, have told this Liberal government that Ontario’s arbitration system needs to be fixed for the broader public service,” said Hillier yesterday in the Legislature, “or, in light of our recent and poor economic performance, Ontario’s broader public hindrance.”

(QUEEN’S PARK) - MPP Randy Hillier (Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington) applauded Members of the Ontario Legislature for their support today in passing his private members bill, Bill 16, an act that will repeal Dalton McGuinty’s much despised ban on ‘pit bulls,’ at Second Reading. The vote successfully passed despite significant opposition from the minority Liberal government who refused to acknowledge a world-wide repudiation of breed specific legislation.