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  • Parliamentarians hike our sales tax

    03/10/2008 7:06:49 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 4 replies · 324+ views
    The London Free Press ^ | March 9, 2008 | Kathy Rumleski
    A rowdy Ontario legislature passed a hike in the sales tax and tolls on all highways yesterday. Don't panic though, it was the Ontario Youth Parliament, sitting in London, that gave the green light to highway tolls to pay for our crumbling roads and to raise the provincial sales tax to nine per cent. The 39th Ontario Youth Parliament continues today and tomorrow at Riverside United Church. More than 100 delegates, age 14 to 21, beat the weather and arrived Friday for their annual meeting, held in London for the first time since 2003. Welland delegate Mandy Lewis, a Grade...