'Ontario can lead again,' says Hudak
By ALTHIA RAJ, QMI AGENCY - Toronto Sun
Thornhill MPP Peter Shurman said a key feature would be private-sector job creation and ways to enable small and medium-size businesses to thrive.
?The McGuinty Liberals through high taxes on new investment, red tape, regulations have made the business environment in Ontario unattractive to new businesses and to investors,? he said.
'Ontario can lead again,' says Hudak
By ALTHIA RAJ, QMI AGENCY - Toronto Sun
OTTAWA ? Ontario?s PC Leader says he?ll cut taxes, create jobs, invest in health care and help make restore the province?s ?have? status once again.
In a campaign style speech to party delegates, Tim Hudak said, "Ontario can lead again."
Under his leadership, Hudak said the province would be more business friendly.
He promised to cut taxes but did not specify which ones.
He said the PCs would reform government, explore ways to link work and study and set higher standards for high school students.
Hudak mocked Premier Dalton McGuinty for watching over Ontario as its economy tanked but ensuring ?our lawns are perfectly pesticide free.?
?Our factories may be closing ? but Ontario is protected from the menace of the plastic grocery bag,? Hudak continued.
He attacked the Liberals for being a scandal-plagued government and focused too much on posh downtown Toronto ridings.
But Hudak pledged to knock on those same doors during the next election campaign.
?We will take our message to every door, including doors that have not seen a PC candidate in a long, long time,? Hudak said, as he urged volunteers to get to work.
?We have a province to save,? he added.
Party strategists said they are seeing momentum in polls but know they have a tough road ahead.
?We are not underestimating Dalton McGuinty,? one strategist said.
?Ontarians can?t name a single accomplishment of McGuinty ? but the flip side for us, is they can?t name a single disaster or failure. They don?t hate him but they don?t love him,? he said.
The party plans to tap into networks of grassroots activists to help close a fundraising gap they have with the Liberals. They are modeling many of their methods on the federal Conservatives.
Nearly 1,000 Progressive-Conservative delegates are in Ottawa this weekend to help carve out policies for next year?s election platform.
Thornhill MPP Peter Shurman said a key feature would be private-sector job creation and ways to enable small and medium-size businesses to thrive.
?The McGuinty Liberals through high taxes on new investment, red tape, regulations have made the business environment in Ontario unattractive to new businesses and to investors,? he said.
The PC party also unveiled a new logo, a newly designed website and a new iPhone application Saturday.