If you do work for the provincial government you should not have to wait forever to get paid. That’s the point that local MPP Monte McNaughton was pushing in Queen’s Park yesterday.
McNaughton brought up reports that are before the liberals about prompt payments for those contractors that do work for the province.
McNaughton cited the over 400, 000 workers in the labor force that do work under provincial contracts and the fact that they have to wait 90 days or longer to get paid.
He brought up the point that many of those contractors were independent business owners and waiting for the government to pay can put a huge strain on their cash flow.
McNaughton has started a website http://ontariopromptpayment.com to make people aware of the problems and to also put pressure on the Provincial government to change the way they do business.
