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(Updated) We are now two weeks from the June 12 election, and as decision day approaches, the leaders are scrambling to make progress in the polls. Today, they were doing that with accusations and counter accusations about each other and their promises.
In terms of the rhetoric, this has been one of the nastiest days so far in the campaign, if not the nastiest. Liberal leader Kathleen Wynne was lashing out at her opponents, and they were fighting back.
Kathleen Wynne got a lesson in potting at the Niagara College greenhouse, saying the Liberals would hold on to their tuition break for post secondary students but accusing Tory leader Tim Hudak of planning to kill it.
“He believes that students should be left to fend for themselves,” said Wynne.
Wynne was also fighting off a new controversy with PC Frank Klees and Tory leader Tim Hudak accusing the government of a secret $300 million bailout of a downtown Toronto development called “MaRs,” Medical and Related Sciences, when they say the developer couldn’t repay loans.
Wynne says there’s no final agreement and the Conservatives are wrong to bring this up.
“What Frank Klees did this morning was very irresponsible. I hope that what he’s done doesn’t derail the negotiation and derail the agreement,” she said.
Wynne also took the unusual step of writing to Conservative leader Hudak asking him to fix his job numbers.
She cited economists who say Hudak’s million-jobs plan would create nowhere near a million jobs.
“Mr. Hudak’s plan has been called a fiasco, a bag of wind,” she said.
Hudak says there are economists who back him, and he’s counter-charging that Wynne’s not being honest about whether she’d raise taxes or cut government spending.
“I think she’s being fundamentally dishonest,” said Hudak.
Andrea Horwath and the NDP also got a taste of the Wynne attack.
“They seem to have fallen back into mudslinging and some very nasty rhetoric,” said Wynne.
Horwath accused the government of squandering money.
“We’ve seen waste and scandal, with eHealth, with Orge air ambulance, with the cancellation of the gas plants,” said Horwath.
A lot of accusations and rhertoric in the campaign today. NDP leader is in Hamilton this evening, where she’s taking part in a debate with the other candidates running in her Hamilton Centre riding.
