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PC leader Tim Hudak promises gas plants probe

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TORONTO

A Progressive Conservative government would introduce a budget and call a judicial inquiry into the cancelled gas plants within its first 100 days of office, Leader Tim Hudak said Friday.

An immediate government hiring freeze is also on the to-do list, he said.

“It’s particularly important to take decisive action,” Hudak said. “The new job numbers tell us that we need to take a very different course. What should be up is down, what should be down is up.”

The Statistics Canada labour force survey released Friday shows Ontario gained 45,200 part-time jobs in May but lost 30,400 full-time positions.

There are more government jobs but the private sector lost full-time and manufacturing jobs, Hudak said.

“We’re in a jobs crisis,” he said.

The PCs laid out a 100-day plan that included winding down the Ontario College of Trades, changing the apprenticeship ratio to 1:1, meeting with western Canada premiers to negotiate an interprovincial free-trade zone, introducing a budget that cancels planned Liberal tax increases and end a $2.5 billion fund for corporate subsidies.

Legal work on a legislated two-year wage freeze for all workers in the broader public sector would begin, the Tories say.

Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne said her government would, if re-elected on June 12th, invest in transportation throughout the province to help the economy and ease gridlock.

A Hudak government would invest in Toronto transit only at the expense or regions outside the city’s border while the Liberal plan would benefit everyone, Wynne said.

“It means no second-class citizens,” she said. “Tim Hudak would take money out of projects that are outside Toronto and this is just wrong-headed.”

 

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