CHRIS FOX CP24.com May 23 2014 PC Leader Tim Hudak may be leading the pack in the race to become premier, but a new poll from Ipsos-Reid shows that the majority of Ontarians don’t believe he will follow through on his promise to create one million jobs if elected. Hudak has made job creation the central […]
Read More →GORD HENDERSON Windsor Star May 23 2014 If Conservative Leader Tim Hudak triumphs in next month’s Ontario election, he should book a flight to Austin, Texas the following week to break bread with Gov. Rick Perry. Perry, the 64-year-old Republican governor of a hard-right, low-tax state that takes great pride in its accommodating, pro-business environment, might […]
Read More →CBC NEWS May 23 2014 Candidates in two northern ridings are displeased that Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak will not be attending a debate on Monday. As provincial party leaders sit down in Thunder Bay Monday night to debate the major issues facing Ontario’s north, Hudak said he won’t be able to attend due to […]
Read More →Crunching the numbers on women and visible minorities in the Ontario election Lauren Strapagiel CANADA.COM May 21, 2014, The Ontario Progressive Conservatives and a labour organization are in a war of attack-ads accusing one another of working for the interests of old white dudes. It started with a video from Working Families decrying Ontario PC […]
Read More →MATT ELLIOTT Metro News May 21 2014 Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak’s plan to create — pause for dramatic effect — ONE MILLION JOBS includes a pledge to “put the province in charge of all rail-based transit and major highways in the GTA.” In subsequent interviews, Hudak has clarified that by “all rail-based transit” the PCs don’t actually […]
Read More →SCOTT CLARK & PETER DeVRIES iPolitics.ca May 20, 2014 You have to give Tim Hudak credit. He’s presenting Ontario voters with a very clear policy choice this time. On one hand there’s the Progressive Conservative party (PC), which would commit to eliminating the deficit in three years through deep spending cuts. On the other, there’s […]
Read More →The Ontario PC leader’s plan to make cuts to the province’s Full Day Kindergarten program will have devastating long-term consequences for our economic future. CHARLES PASCAL Toronto Star, May 20 2014 Like a record stuck in a bad groove, Tim Hudak relentlessly preaches that jobs and the economy are the defining issues of the current provincial election […]
Read More →PEGGY REVELL Medicine Hat News May 20 2014 Big juicy round numbers. They’re the sort of thing politicians like to throw out, especially during election time. It’s what’s being seen now as Ontarians get ready to head to the polls. PC party leader Tim Hudak has made the promise that if elected he will eliminate […]
Read More →ERNIE GINSLER Waterloo Region Record May 20 2014 You just can’t cut your way to economic growth. Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak thinks you can, and he has promised to create a million new jobs, mostly by cutting 100,000 provincially funded workers and cutting the corporate tax rate by 30 per cent. Canada already has one […]
Read More →LEITH DUNICK tbnewswatch.com May 20 2014 The Northern Ontario leaders’ debate will go ahead on May 26 without Conservative Leader Tim Hudak. Hudak, who publicly chastised former premier Dalton McGuinty for a no-show at the same debate in 2011, informed debate organizers his campaign schedule won’t allow him to attend the one-hour event. Both Liberal Leader […]
Read More →Tim Hudak got a grilling about his promised 100,000 public sector job cuts from a “longtime, very dedicated Conservative” fearing the impact on fire and ambulance services. Rob Ferguson Toronto Star May 20 2014 Tim Hudak got a grilling about his promised 100,000 public sector job cuts from a “longtime, very dedicated Conservative” fearing the impact on fire and […]
Read More →Impact of cutting 100,000 good jobs out of Ontario’s economy would result in the loss of an additional 50,000 private sector jobs. KAYLIE TIESSEN & KAYLE HATT Toronto Star May 18 2014 Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak’s pledge to demolish 100,000 public sector jobs has stirred a hornet’s nest of opinion in the Ontario election […]
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