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In less than three days, voters in Niagara Falls riding head to the polls. And it’s a statistical dead heat.

The latest polls show this byelection is a horse race between the PCs and the NDP, with only two points separating Bart Maves and Wayne Gates.

Progessive Conservative leader Tim Hudak returned to Niagara Falls to support Maves; this time to tour Can-Eng, a manufacturer that makes industrial furances.

“I want to see more ‘made in Ontario’ and ‘made in Niagara’ products like these furnaces sold around the world and getting more people to work in our province.”

Can-Eng says it’s lost Ontario customers who shut down because they can’t afford the hydro rates.

Hudak says that’s why he put forward his so-called million jobs plan. “To get hydro under control. To get taxes down. To set aside red tape. To open up more trade opportunities.”

The NDP’s Gates says the party has a jobs plan too; offering tax credits of up to $5,000 to businesses that hire more people. “We believe in giving a tax credit to a small business. A winery. Manufacturing. A tourism business.”

“The only poll that matters is election day.”

Liberal candidate Joyce Morocco agrees. The Liberals are trailing in the latest poll with 19 per cent support.

“February 13th will really tell where we are. And I’m wondering about that poll because that’s not what I’m hearing at the door”

Morocco, visiting a downtown clinic with health minister Deb Matthews, says if the PCs or NDP are elected, all the work that’s been done so far on the GO train and other issues will be lost.

“It will be extremely sad for this area, to fall that far behind and I don’t want that to happen. So it’s important I get elected.”