Stellantis, one of the world’s leading car manufacturers, made headlines last week after announcing it would cancel plans to build Jeep vehicles in Brampton and instead produce them in the United States. This is happening despite the $15 billion corporate welfare package gifted to them in 2023. Needless to say, the Ford PCs' taxpayer-funded gamble fell short.

A new report from the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI) has confirmed what we’ve been saying for years: Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives have become the province’s new Liberals. Ontario now spends $9.5 billion every year on corporate subsidies. That’s more than any other province in Canada — even more than Quebec, long known for its addiction to corporate welfare.

Five years ago, on Thanksgiving Day in 2020, Jim and Belinda Karahalios announced that they had received approval from Elections Ontario to start a new provincial political party—one rooted in principle, accountability, and the values on which Ontario was founded. Since that day, we’ve made remarkable progress together.

The Ford PCs are threatening to ban Crown Royal from LCBO shelves if the company goes ahead with plans to move an Ontario bottling plant to the U.S. next year. Instead of blaming the business, the Ontario PCs should look in the mirror. The only reason Crown Royal is looking to move part of their operation is because Ontario has become an expensive, over-regulated, high-tax province.