Provincial election campaign underway
Posted Sep 6, 2011 03:07:34 PM.
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Election signs will soon pop up like tulips in May as the provincial election campaign officially kicks off today.
And with the latest polls showing this race could go to the bitter end, these signs will be accompanied by door-knocking candidates and plenty of promises and accusations.
They have begun already.
Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty says Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives have been taken over by the far right-wing ideas of the American Tea Party.
McGuinty says PC Leader Tim Hudak’s attack on the Liberal promise of a $10,000 tax credit for employers who give immigrants their first job gives voters a peek into the new thinking of the Tory party.
He says Hudak actually sponsored a similar private members’ bill to help immigrants, but now claims the Liberal plan amounts to affirmative action that will discriminate against other job seekers.
Speaking at a school in Markham, McGuinty said Hudak and the Progressive Conservatives now practise the politics of anger, envy, resentment and division.
McGuinty doesn’t think Ontarians will be comfortable with a hard swing to the political right, and but dismissed suggestions we could be in for a nasty election.
Hudak promises a tax credit for employers who sponsor language training for immigrants, but says that helps those who are already employed.
