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TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Metro Toronto June 9 2014 Ontario child-care advocates have given the Progressive Conservatives an F for a campaign platform that makes no mention of child care or early childhood education — except to threaten laying off thousands of early childhood education workers. The Liberals and New Democrats tied with a C for scattershot […]
Read More →NICHOLAS ASHMORE Huffington Post June 7 2014 Tim Hudak is most decidedly not a progressive politician. But while the poorly introduced Million Jobs Plan seems to have publicly flopped, many have overlooked the more intricate details of the Progressive Conservative platform. Hudak’s idea to axe 100,000 public sector positions has worried most Ontarians primarily due to […]
Read More →Renewable energy advocates say Ontario Conservative energy policy would devastate their sector JOHN SPEARS Toronto Star June 6 2014 Canada’s biggest booster of solar power doesn’t mince words when he describes the stakes for his industry in Ontario’s June 12 election. “The proposed plans of Tim Hudak and the Conservatives would be a devastating setback […]
Read More →SUSAN SHERRING Ottawa Sun June 5 2014 Mayor Jim Watson is not amused. And on the surface, seems he’s got good reason to be upset. Tory leader Tim Hudak has just snubbed not just Watson, but seemingly the interests of all of the residents of Ottawa. And that’s gotta hurt!
Read More →Conservative Leader Tim Hudak’s shaky math on jobs is just one reason he shouldn’t become Ontario’s premier. John Cartwright Toronto Star June 5 2014 The latest scandal to envelope Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak should be enough to sink any self-respecting politician. Imagine boasting that you would create a million jobs, making it the central feature […]
Read More →Haroon Siddiqui Toronto Star June 4 2014 Kathleen (“I’m the rookie”) Wynne lost the televised leadership debate Tuesday. At least she did not win. Tim Hudak did. Calm and confident, he conveyed what he wanted to — his Tea Party prescription of growing the economy by shrinking government. He delivered the message with a smile and […]
Read More →DAVID AKIN Sun Media June 3 2014 This is the latest ad from the Ontario Progressive Conservatives. They call it “Truth”. But in fact, it features their leader saying at least one thing that is demonstrably and unequivocally untrue and one other statement that is unlikely to be true. Let’s break it down by looking […]
Read More →SCOTT CLARK & PETER DeVRIES iPolitics.ca June 3 2014 A part of Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak’s ‘Million Jobs Plan’ which hasn’t been getting much attention in this election campaign is a commitment to introduce something called the ‘Spending Within Our Means Act’. This act would prevent provincial program spending from growing beyond a […]
Read More →DANIEL TENCER The Huffington Post Canada June 3 2014 If Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak’s proposal to create a million new jobs weren’t already thoroughly discredited, this might just do the trick. The economic analysis underpinning Hudak’s plan is so flawed it assumes Ontario’s economy will grow faster than China’s, according to an analysis by […]
Read More →Throwing 100,000 Ontarians out of work will devastate our communities SID RYAN Hamilton Spectator June 2 2014 Even before the provincial election campaign began a few weeks ago, many of us had warned about the risks of a Tim Hudak Conservative government for Ontario. In addition to his attacks on labour unions, Hudak had forecast […]
Read More →The Zycher report is a hot mess. This has been an incredibly disappointing week MIKE MOFFAT Canadian Business Jun 2 2014 When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. The Ontario Progressive Conservatives instead decided to instead dig deeper with theirbizarre defense of the numbers in the Million Jobs Plan. The statements made by […]
Read More →ADAM RADWANSKI The Globe and Mail May 29 2014 Tim Hudak has spent Ontario’s election campaign offering himself quite convincingly as the rare politician willing to level with voters about difficult decisions he thinks are needed, even if some of them may not want to hear it. The Progressive Conservative Leader’s efforts to present himself as […]
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