It has been a long couple of days for Bruce Grey Owen Sound MPP Bill Murdoch as the Opposition continues to protest the HST.
Murdoch and fellow Progressive Conservative Randy Hillier refused to leave the Ontario legislature Monday and spent the night and all day Tuesday in the Chambers.
Murdoch was the first to be ordered out for calling the Premier a liar over the 13 per cent harmonized sales tax.
But Murdoch wouldn’t budge — and other Tories came to his side to block any attempt to remove him.
Murdoch says they will not leave so they can continue to protest the lack of public hearings over the HST.
If Murdoch and Hillier left — they wouldn’t be allowed back until the next Throne Speech.
Murdoch calls the HST “the biggest tax grab in Ontario history” and he wants the province to go out on the road so people can have their say about it.
Murdoch particularly wants the hearings to be held in rural and northern Ontario.
Finance Minister Dwight Duncan said the public would be able to comment this Thursday, but in Toronto — and Murdoch says that is not good enough.