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SCOTT STINSON National Post January 21, 2014 Tim Hudak’s Progressive Conservatives first released their “right-to-work” policy in their white paper on labour reform more than 18 months ago, and it has been one of the leader’s favourite talking points ever since. Just last month, Mr. Hudak gave a speech to the Economic Club of Canada in which […]
Read More →CAMPBELL CLARK The Globe and Mail January 14, 2014 There’s a little fashion in Canadian politics to promise to create a specific number of new jobs, and Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak is showing us how ill-advised it is. Jean Charest did it, when he was running for re-election as Quebec premier. It is an […]
Read More →MATTHEW PEARSON Ottawa Citizen January 14, 2014 OTTAWA — Tim Hudak has made 2014’s first election promise. The writ hasn’t actually been dropped yet — though many Queen’s Park observers expect it will be at some point this spring — but the Ontario Progressive Conservative leader is already trying to make jobs and economic growth a […]
Read More →Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak’s jobs plan proposes recycled ideas and dangerous acts of austerity. EDITORIAL Toronto Star January 13, 2014 In order to maintain the prevailing theme of simplicity, let’s cut to the chase on Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak’s proposed “Million Jobs Act”: it’s campaign sloganeering, at best. With the expectation of […]
Read More →ADAM RADWANSKI The Globe and Mail January 3, 2014 For a time in 2013, the leader of Ontario’s Official Opposition took to warning his province that it was at risk of winding up like Detroit. To anyone passingly familiar with the hollowed-out city across the river from Windsor – a place that has suffered so […]
Read More →The Huffington Post Canada December 20, 2014 A majority of Canadians — 56 per cent — hold favourable views of unions, and an even larger majority opposes “right to work” laws backed by some Conservatives, a new survey finds. The Harris/Decima survey, carried out for the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), found 70 per cent of […]
Read More →SUSANNA KELLY Ontario Newswatch December 16, 2013 Recently, Ontario PC Labour Critic Monte McNaughton and Warren (Smokey) Thomas, the President of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), have ratcheted up their verbal grenade launches at each other over what is expected to be a central Conservative election campaign plank - making Ontario a “right to work” […]
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