680News staff 2010/10/05
TORONTO, Ont. - Despite recent polls showing 76% of voters in favour of a change in government, Premier Dalton McGuinty said he will seek a third term on the next provincial election day - October 6, 2011.
"This is a really exciting time, and it's a challenging time. That's one of the things that makes it exciting," McGuinty told reporters on Tuesday.
"There are some new political and policy challenges that I'm very much looking forward to grappling with," he added.
Meanwhile, the opposition Tories have characterized McGuinty as tired, and completely out of ideas as he comes to the end of his second term in office, and do not see voters supporting him next fall.
"He looks back on his idealism of seven years ago, and we look at a very tired, out of touch premier, and a very tired, out of touch government, a third of which somedays doesn't even bother to show up for question period," said Progressive Conservative critic Peter Shurman.
Regardless of what his opponents have stated, McGuinty said he still has the enthusiasm, energy and idealism from when he was first elected in 1990, and now has two terms of experience to offer Ontario's voters.