Advance polls open

Voting is under way in Ontario’s provincial election.

Saturday morning is when the first advance polls opened for the election on June 12^th, but the leaders of the three major parties are looking ahead to the day after Election Day, when Ontario could be facing another minority government.

As it stands, the polls indicate this is a very close race and the leaders are looking at the possibility of a Liberal or Conservative minority, with the NDP holding the balance of power.

NDP leader Andrea Horwath was casting her ballot in Hamilton Centre, saying the Liberals have to be stopped.

“We do not have to have a Liberal government that is corrupt,” the NDP leader said.

Horwath was turning down any suggestion that she’ll back the Conservatives if the Tories win a minority.

“I want to be clear, I am running to be premier of this province and I will never support any plan that fires 100,000 people.”

Liberal Leader, Kathleen Wynne kept up her digs at PC Leader, Tim Hudak and jobs-plan arithmetic.

“Between now and Election Day, which is 12 days or in Tim Hudak’s time: 96 days,”  despite Horwath’s denial, Wynne would later raise the prospect of the NDP supporting the Tories “it’s shocking that the party of Jack Layton and Stephen Lewis, the party that should have supported our budget would be thinking about supporting Tim Hudak.  It is outrageous.”

After voting in his Niagara West-Glanbrook riding, PC Leader, Tim Hudak spoke with media about the Liberals and NDP working together.

“I do hope that Kathleen Wynne and Andrea Horwath will stop all this coalition talk,”  Hudak said “you know last time, Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne said they could break their promises because of the coalition they formed with the NDP voters don’t like that.”