The Tory MPP pointed to other recent lay-offs in Thornhill — the 2008 closures of Canac Kitchens and Progressive Moulded that threw 3,000 people out of work and Crown Metal Packaging’s announcement this spring that its Concord plant was closing in December, leaving another 159 people without jobs.

“Strangled by the McGuinty government’s red tape and uncompetitive taxes and now facing sky-rocketing energy costs, is it any wonder that companies like Eastern Wire are shutting their doors?” he said.

 

But Eastern Wire did not place all the blame on province.