McGuinty Pours Cold Water On Tories While Hampton Issues Warning
Posted September 24, 2007 12:00 pm.
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If Dalton McGuinty has been trying to do anything during this election campaign, it’s this – tying current PC leader John Tory to the previous Conservative regimes of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves. He was at it again at a water purification plant in Walkerton Monday, a reminder of the infamous tainted H20 E. coli scandal that killed seven people and sickened thousands more than seven years ago.
He pointed out that his government has managed to put into place every one of the Walkerton Inquiry’s recommendations to prevent the tragedy from ever happening again, and claims his party has safeguarded the public from the cost cutting measures of their predecessors. “Ontario Liberals have implemented every one of Justice O’Connor’s recommendations, but it is the people of Walkerton – their courage and strength – that have been the driving force behind our actions,” he praised.
And while the Grits and the Tories are fighting for ink over issues like faith-based schooling and beer and wine in corner stores, the NDP are determined not to be forgotten in the equation.
Howard Hampton warns his main opponents that if a divided electorate returns a minority government to Queen’s Park, his party could well hold the balance of power. And he won’t let the New Democrats’ six key election commitments – reducing the health tax, increasing the minimum wage, more environmental protections, better education funding, reducing tuition fees and improving the health care system – be forgotten by whoever assumes the Premier’s chair after October 10th.
Hampton spent Monday at the University of Waterloo, where he called for tuition fees to be reduced to 2003 levels and frozen at that rate.
