Progressive Conservatives: Battleground

Tax Credit Dept: A Liberal proposal to give a tax credit to businesses that hire certain new Canadians has received a staggering amount of attention in the first week of the campaign, and the second week began no differently, according to Winnipeg Free Press. And it would effect about 12,000 people, just a fraction of the province's 13 million residents and tORONTO - Ontario's Progressive Conservatives persisted Monday in their attempts to fan the flames of an immigrant tax credit controversy, though somewhat turning down the heat on a minor jobs initiative that has been propelled to the fore of the election battleground. The $12-million plan aimed at people in professions such as architecture and engineering equals roughly .01 percent of the overall Ontario budget, which was just under $114 billion for 2011-12. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.