Leader Dalton Mcguinty: New Immigrants

Hudak Dept: If Mr. Hudak were appealing only to his party s traditional white and rural base, he could stop at referring to the policy as affirmative action, which would be a contentious but defensible interpretation. Instead, he has described it as an affirmative action for foreign workers. , according to Globe and Mail. But what Mr. Hudak clearly hopes, in campaign mode, is to draw a line between new immigrants and those who have been in the country longer. To put it crudely, he s counting on members of the latter group to want to close the door behind them. More generously, he s appealing to those who believe they or their parents had nothing handed to them when they came to the country, and neither should anyone else and mr. Hudak s attacks on Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty s proposal to provide employers with a tax credit of up to $10,000, in return for hiring skilled immigrants, have been appealing to Ontarians worst instincts. But they represent a gamble that the Tories have their fingers on the pulse of most immigrants. Even if the Liberals have done a spectacularly clumsy job of specifying that the tax credit would only apply to hires of people who have their citizenship and have been in the country for five years or fewer, Mr. Hudak surely knows he s being misleading. Less than two years ago, he himself brought forward a private member s bill that would have done something similar to what Mr. McGuinty is proposing. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.