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Ontario Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne says injecting money into the auto industry is the only way to stimulate the sector, while the Progressive Conservatives are arguing lower taxes would be more effective.
As the blackout ban on campaign ads lifted Wednesday ahead of the June 12 vote, Ms. Wynne drove home the message of her first TV spot while touring the Omega Tool Corp. plant in Windsor, Ont. Her bottom line: the PCs and Liberals have opposite approaches on how to fix the provinces recovering economy and its time for voters to pick a path.
In terms of the choices in front of the people of Ontario, I think theyre very stark, she said after touring the manufacturing facility.
Her announcement of the partys plans to support the auto industry was an example of Ms. Wynnes strategy to position her party as the polar opposite of the PCs. While the Liberals want to inject money to stimulate the sector including a 10-year $2.5-billion Jobs and Prosperity Fund the PC party argues lower taxes across the board would do more good than one-off, hefty investments.
Ms. Wynne promoted her partys previous investments in the auto sector, such as a $70.9-million contribution to Fords Oakville assembly plant in 2013, which she said helped save 2,800 jobs. She then took aim at one of her opponents, saying Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak would destroy the auto industry, by ending government funding to bolster the sector.
The PC party argues their plan would help keep jobs in Ontario for the long run, without government spending. On Wednesday, Mr. Hudak criticized Ms. Wynne, saying government handouts just reward the well-connected. He did not respond to a question about automotive sector bailouts helping to preserve jobs in the province, however.
Instead, Mr. Hudak reiterated his pledge that lowering taxes and hydro costs would bolster the manufacturing industry in Ontario. Mr. Hudak made a campaign stop at Horizon Plastics in Cobourg, Ont. a manufacturing plant that has relocated some of its production to a satellite factory in a tax haven in Mexico, and one that has also benefited from government grants.
In 2011, Horizon received nearly $2-million through the provincial Innovation Demonstration Fund. At the time, a statement said this grant would help create as many as 350 new jobs.
Horizon president Peter Garvey did not answer questions on Wednesday.
Mr. Hudak claimed, however, that the factory currently has just over 200 people on its payroll, down from roughly 400 a decade ago. When asked about the fact that the company had benefited from grants in the past, Mr. Hudak said, Theyd benefit a lot more from lower taxes and affordable energy, and Peter [Garvey] agrees with me on that.
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Liberals tout spending, PCs push lower taxes for Ontario auto industry
Kathleen Wynne helmed a tractor and Tim Hudak tightened the bolts on a manure spreader on Tuesday, as the Liberals and Progressive Conservatives strengthened their bid to sway rural voters in the June 12 provincial election.
The top parties entered the final stretch of the campaign battling over the rural vote and preparing to release a barrage of election advertising.
Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne visited a beef farm in Paris, Ont., where she highlighted a plan from the partys proposed budget for a 10-year, $40-million-a-year fund to support farmers and the food-processing industry. She also highlighted the Farms Forever program, designed to protect farmland in the province.
It is absolutely important to the future of this province that we have a strong agriculture and food industry, she told reporters after driving a tractor down the farm lane. Yes, this is about campaigning, but it is more importantly about the future of the province.
PC Leader Tim Hudak countered by accusing the Liberals of creating a rural-urban divide and not paying enough attention to the agricultural industry.
During a visit to Veldale Farms in Woodstock, Ont., Mr. Hudak re-emphasized his plan to reduce government regulations in the province a focus of his campaign on Monday as well asserting that this would help farmers to run their businesses.
He also said that rural municipalities should get a higher share of gas-tax revenues to go toward infrastructure investment.
Every community will get its fair share of gas-tax revenue, Mr. Hudak said.
He repeated a pledge to scale back wind and solar power projects as well, redirecting those investments to lowering hydro bills. The PC camp says its plan will save the average family $384 per year in hydro expenses and that cheaper energy will attract more business and jobs to the province.
To drive the point home, Mr. Hudak also visited Nuhn Industries in Sebringville, Ont., whose founder Dennis Nuhn supports the PC platform.
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Ontario Liberals, PCs make plays for rural voters
Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak speaks at a campaign event in Toronto on May 16. (Frank Gunn/THE CANADIAN PRESS)
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Special to The Globe and Mail
Published Wednesday, May. 21, 2014 12:24PM EDT
Last updated Wednesday, May. 21, 2014 12:27PM EDT
Neither the Liberals nor the Progressive Conservatives have so far definitively put their stamp on the ongoing Ontario election campaign, as the two parties remain in a muddled close race in the polls.
The latest vote projection from ThreeHundredEight.com gives the Progressive Conservatives 36 per cent support, a drop of one point since last week. The Liberals have slipped two points to 34 per cent, while the New Democrats increased their support by one point to reach 23 per cent. An average of 5 per cent of Ontarians have said they would vote for the Green Party.
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ABC Labor and the Greens have both gained in the latest poll.
Support for the Liberal Party in Tasmania has fallen to its lowest level since May 2011.
The latest opinion poll from EMRS found voter support for the Liberals has fallen 2 per cent since February, to 48 per cent.
Labor picked up some of the vote increasing 2 points to 25 per cent, while the Greens experienced a 4 point jump to 21 per cent.
Will Hodgman remains preferred Premier with 54 per cent support ahead of Labor leader Bryan Green with 22 per cent.
EMRS spokesman Samuel Paske says the results reflect minor changes and should be treated with caution.
"While I'm sure both Labor and the Greens will be encouraged that this is the lowest level of support recorded by the Liberal Party since May 2011...they will no doubt look forward to August to determine whether or not the course of these changes is likely to be borne out in the future," he said.
Mr Hodgman insists he is more focussed on governing the state than analysing polling data.
He says the Government has a tough task ahead preparing its first budget and he is focussing on that.
"I'm focussed on delivering our agenda, there's a new Government with to grow our economy and to create jobs," he said.
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