One week until election day in Ontario
Posted September 29, 2011 4:32 pm.
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TORONTO, Ont. – The Mississauga power plant took centre stage on the provincial election campaign trail Thursday. The election will be held on Oct. 6.
In Ottawa, Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak accused the Liberals of scrambling to get votes.
“Dalton McGuinty looks panicked and on the run. He had a power plant that for six years he said was necessary in Mississauga and then 11 days before the campaign he pulls the plug. Who knows where he’s going to move it to,” Hudak said.
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath, who was in Toronto, wants the auditor general to get involved to find out exactly what cancelling the plant will cost taxpayers.
“We’ve been asking for it but we haven’t been getting it and that’s the problem. The auditor general does a great job in looking at value for money and looking at the decisions that are being made by government and we thought maybe we could get him on this case,” Horwath explained.
In Pickering, McGuinty ignored the plant controversy. Instead, he’s promising to roll out a tax credit for home renovations 15 months early, in an effort to boost job creation ahead of a looming financial slump.
Speeding up that program will cost an additional $150-million.
