ANALYSIS: NDP platform launch marks unofficial start of Ontario election campaign
The Ontario election campaign isn’t expected to begin until May 4 but it felt like the race was underway today, as Andrea Horwath and the NDP unveiled a 92-page platform promising new investments in healthcare and a freeze on the income tax for low and middle-income residents.
That’s because the big political event of the week will be the tabling of Ontario’s budget on Thursday afternoon. The NDP say the financial details of its plan has to wait for that. So sometime during the campaign there will be another “platform release” when today’s promises are reconciled with the cash on hand in the Ontario Treasury.
“Folks aren’t asking for the moon and the stars, they just want somebody who really gets what they are going through and they haven’t had that in a while,” Horwath said during the platform launch in Toronto.The Progressive Conservative campaign Monday featured Premier Doug Ford doing a “fireside chat” in Burlington at the Halton Region Chamber of Commerce.
Steven Del Duca, the Liberal Party leader, also had a home care announcement of his own on Monday. He promised a Liberal government will increase the amount of money that low-income seniors get from the province as a top up to their federal Old Age Security payments. Del Duca said the money will help seniors “stay safe in their homes.” The Liberals put the cost of its plan at $250 million a year.
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