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Strategic voting is necessary to prevent Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak from becoming premier of the province. Jerry Dias Toronto Star May 29 2014 If Tim Hudak becomes premier, Ontario will see unprecedented job cuts, health-care cuts, education cuts and the decimation of workers’ rights. For those who value decent jobs, good health care, strong […]
Read More →EDITORIAL Ottawa Citizen May 29 2014 The Ontario Progressive Conservatives are supposed to be a credible alternative to the governing Liberals on economics, which makes the disintegration of their election platform all the more disappointing. It was a Million Jobs Plan, until the plan itself revealed more than half of those jobs are expected to come […]
Read More →ADRIAN MORROW The Globe and Mail May 29 2014 Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak says he believes the math in his Million Jobs Plan – even after a half-dozen economists said he made a basic arithmetic mistake that inflated the number of projected jobs his proposed policies would create. The economists say Mr. Hudak counted […]
Read More →When economists poke myriad holes in the Million Jobs Plan that is a pillar of the PC platform, it’s time for damage control, writes Martin Regg Cohn. Martin Regg Cohn Toronto Star May 29 2014 In politics, as in life, it’s never too late to say sorry. Tim Hudak should try it. There’s still time, […]
Read More →JONATHAN SHER, The London Free Press May 29 2014 A London-area Ontario PC candidate is feeling the heat after suggesting in a local debate that Leader Tim Hudak can’t create one million jobs. Jeff Bennett’s blurb was posted on YouTube Thursday, 16 seconds in all, from a debate in London West, where he’s challenging NDP […]
Read More →ANDY RADIA Yahoo Canada News May 29 2014 Ontario Liberal leader Kathleen Wynne is challenging Tim Hudak to provide proof that his job plan — the central theme of the Progressive Conservative campaign — is legitimate. The PC leader has been under fire for days over allegations that his plan to create one million jobs over […]
Read More →DIANA MEHTA The Canadian Press May 28 2014 NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. – Tim Hudak was forced to defend his “Million Jobs Plan” for Ontario on Wednesday as a growing number of economists questioned the math behind the promise, which lies at the centre of the Progressive Conservative leader’s election platform. Despite being hammered repeatedly on the issue, […]
Read More →PC leader Tim Hudak proposes cutting 100,000 of the 1.1 million Ontario public service workers.We look closer at the responsibilities of those 1.1 million Donovan Vincent Toronto Star May 28 2014 The claim: Defending his plan to cut 100,000 Ontario public service jobs in four years, Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak recently said “but you […]
Read More →IAN McGUGAN The Globe and Mail May 28 2014 Tim Hudak is right about one thing: The world doesn’t need protection from freedom-loving hairdressers. But otherwise the Ontario Progressive Conservative leader’s latest policy initiative comes across as just one more episode in an increasingly surreal debate about a supposed lack of skilled tradespeople in Canada – a […]
Read More →STEVE KUPFERMAN Toronto Life May 28 2014 Politicians “create jobs” the same way homeopathic medicines treat cancer—which is to say, they almost definitely don’t at all, but a certain percentage of the population will never be convinced of that. Political change can nudge job numbers in the right direction, but the economy, like the human body, is […]
Read More →BRIAN MacLEOD Sudbury Star May 28 2014 Sudbury Progressive Conservative candidate Paula Peroni is doing her best trying to explain how many jobs the city won’t lose with party leader Tim Hudak’s promise to cut 100,000 public sector jobs. It’s a thankless job, but it must be done if the PCs are to mount a serious […]
Read More →ADRIAN MORROW The Globe and Mail May 28 2014 A growing chorus of economists says Tim Hudak misread his own economic data and vastly inflated the number of jobs his “Million Jobs Plan” would create. The Progressive Conservative Leader claims a series of economic measures – such as cutting corporate taxes and red tape – would […]
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