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Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak and PC candidate Bart Maves were in Niagara region visiting Fleet Canada facilities Tuesday. The campaign stop comes ahead of next months by-election in Niagara Falls. Hudak says his ‘Million Jobs Plan” will solve the help increase manufacturing jobs in the region: “The biggest issue in Niagara and Hamilton is jobs. I want to see an Ontario and a Niagara where people are working steady jobs cause I believe a good study job that makes for confident and steady households. Strong communities.problem is we lost 2 out of 5 manufacturing jobs in Niagara.”
Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath says the governing Liberals have been bad news for jobs in Niagara Falls and she says the PC’s wouldn’t do any better. Horwath made a stop in the riding Tuesdayday with NDP candidate Wayne Gates, as the by-election race heats up. Horwath criticized the Liberals for, in her view, putting jobs at risk in Fort Erie shutting down local tourism offices and letting hydro rates rise to among the highest in the country. But she says the PC’s plan to introduce right-to-work legislation won’t help, either: “Mr. Hudak’s plan is not the path to prosperity. Turning Ontario, turning Niagara Falls into the next Alabama is not the way people are going to get ahead in our province or in this community.”
“Right-to-work” legislation makes it illegal for unions to force employees to pay union dues as a condition of employment. While some predicted the PC’s would back away from supporting the legislation, they have not. The Niagara by-election has been set for February 13th.
