YHYV Wednesday review

A new poll out Wednesday suggests the Ontario election campaign is in a dead heat right now between the Liberals and the Conservatives. And Liberal leader Kathleen Wynne was lashing out at her opponents today — trying to break that tie.

The latest focused mainly on the auto industry and its role in the Ontario economy. With the June 12th election day just three weeks away.

Wynne: “The choice in this election is becoming clearer and clearer.”

Liberal leader Kathleen Wynne says this campaign is a race between who would be the best for the economy as she toured a Toyota plant in Cambridge. She says the Liberal government supported Toyota and the auto industry and its jobs during the the bad times. And says the Conservatives would put the industry at risk by pulling back that support.

Wynne: “Tim Hudak wants to cut across governemnt and he wants to cut the knees out from under sectors like auto — it’s just not the way to go.

Hudak: “I say to those 300,000 people who have lost thier jobs in manufacturing — hope is on the way.”

Conervative leader Tim Hudak was touring businesses in Cobourg and Peterborough, saying cutting grants for industry and cutting taxes instead is the right thing to do: “If you want to see more jobs in the private sector creating wealth, manufacturing, finance, technology, agri business, then look at me and my plan. If you want to see more people on the government payroll and less in the private sector that’s Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne

For her part, NDP leader Andrea Horwath was promising support for the auto industry, and saying she’ll help schools with a 60 million dollar fund to allow them to stay open for community events: “It provides opportunities for schools to be able to access funding to help keep the doors open for after school programs and weekend programs.

With Wynne on the attack over Horwath’s ideas: “And every time Andrea Horwath introduces a non-sequiter or an idea that kind of floats out there on its own — it further makes her irrelevant to the very serious challenges that we’re confronting.”

All this as an Abacus Data pool shows the Liberals and Progressive Conservaties tied at 33 per cent, the NDP at 26 and the Green Party at six.