Ontario Ndp Leader: Skilled Immigrants

Defensible Interpretation Dept: If it works, it will help make the Progressive Conservative Leader the next premier of Ontario. If it fails, it could undermine years of hard work by Conservatives to replace Liberals as the first choice of new Canadians. More related to this story PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVES Assessing the Ontario Tories' first week on the campaign trail Ontario NDP Leader enters job-creation fray with subsidy for full-time hires Reader discussion How are McGuinty, Hudak and Horwath faring so far? Video Tax credit the wrong move: Hudak, according to Globe and Mail. 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. In the first days of this fall s campaign, Tim Hudak took the biggest risk of his career. 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. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.