Premier Dalton Mcguinty: Progressive Conservatives

Affirmative Action Program Dept: The Liberals and Progressive Conservatives have been trading verbal volleys about the proposed program for nearly a week. Tory Leader Tim Hudak derided it as an affirmative action program to hire foreign workers. The Liberals shot back with an attempt to brand Hudak s position as downright xenophobic, according to The Star. The event held in Toronto was ostensibly to announce the program s details, though the information provided departed very little from what had already been reported and ontario s Liberals tried Saturday to play down what has become a heated debate over a relatively small immigrant tax credit initiative by dispatching two candidates to talk it up while keeping their leader out of the fray. So on Saturday, with Premier Dalton McGuinty took a day off from the hustings, and with neither Hudak nor NDP Leader Andrea Horwath making any platform news, the Liberals trotted out two incumbents to defend the program. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.