Leader Dalton Mcguinty: Pounding The Pavement

Heart Of Hearts Dept: Us and them: PC Leader Tim Hudak on Wednesday, criticizing the Liberals' proposed tax credit for employers who hire citizens who have been in Canada for under five years: Under their program somebody could just arrive in Ontario and they get a $10,000, basically a grant, to get a job in our province. Right now we have 500,000 women and men who are unemployed pounding the pavement every day . . . searching for a job, according to The Star. Insert the wedge: Editorial, Toronto Star : T he controversy that Hudak is stirring up is not about the substance of particular policies. It's about wedge politics. On Tuesday he claimed that the tax breaks offered by the Liberals would help companies hire anybody but you.' That kind of language divides Ontarians into an us' and a them.' . . . There's a lot on the line during an election and parties often go a bit overboard to score points on their opponents. Hudak's rhetoric and the PC party's Ontarians need not apply' ad go too far. It amounts to a thinly veiled attack on immigrants and the Issue: Forget the usual speculation about when the tone of an election campaign will go negative. No sooner did the writ drop in the Ontario election this week than the neck-and-neck Liberal and Progressive Conservative camps were accusing each other of lying; PC Leader Tim Hudak was drawing fire for comments deriding immigrant employees as foreign workers ; and Grit operatives were taping NDP Leader Andrea Horwath's car apparently driving too close to a bicycle. And this was before the pundits joined the fray. Flip-flop: Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty, responding to Hudak: What concerns me is that Mr. Hudak while he was in his heart of hearts absolutely committed to the same kind of policy which he gave expression to by means of his own private member's bill just about a year ago has now done a complete reversal, jettisoned his principles, abandoned his values in an effort to play some kind of small politics. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.