Dalton Mcguinty: Striking Degree

First Few Days Dept: Until recently, he seemed to be making progress leaving the nastiest attacks on Dalton McGuinty s government to members of his caucus while he tried to strike a more positive tone. He set aside his propensity for props, used fewer sound bites and generally started to look more like someone ready to run the country s second biggest government, according to Globe and Mail. The decision to go aggressively after a marginal Liberal promise to offer employers a tax credit for giving work experience to skilled immigrants something similar to a previous promise by Mr. Hudak himself may not have been out of step with majority opinion. But spending the campaign s first few days railing against foreign workers while flooding the airwaves with radio ads that warned of the coming immigrant hordes, did not make for a warm-and-fuzzy first impression and since he took his party s helm, Mr. Hudak has struggled to translate his easygoing off-camera personality into something likeable when the cameras are on. As though a switch has been flipped, he suddenly becomes glib and snarly, like a caricature of an opposition politician. But late this summer, he regressed. First with a carnival-style Wheel of Tax, the props returned. And once the campaign started, they were joined by a striking degree of negativity. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.