TORONTO – Ontario’s governing Liberals are proposing all day GO trains and a tax credit to help immigrants get their first job in their platform for the Oct. 6 provincial election.
Premier Dalton McGuinty will formally release the platform later today, but The Canadian Press heard audio from a conference call during which top Liberals were briefed on the document.
The Progressive Conservatives say the Liberals should be embarrassed by the leak, claiming it shows that even some Liberals don’t want another four years of McGuinty.
“It shows a lack of discipline, it shows that the team is falling apart,” Conservative critic Jim Wilson said in an interview. “On the phone call last night where the leak came from … clearly these were senior Liberals. And so somebody who would have been loyal to Dalton McGuinty in the past doesn’t believe in him anymore.”
The platform document talks about defending the Liberal record on health care and education, but is not full of sexy and expensive promises.
The all-day GO trains are expected to be a big hit in the vote-rich suburbs surrounding Toronto.
The Liberal platform puts another $60 million into more support workers to buy three million more hours of home care for seniors.
This measure is aimed at women who have to care for children and aging parents.
The platform also promises to create three new undergrad campuses at universities across the province, but the Liberals aren’t saying where just yet.
Their platform includes 68 promises, 45 of them new, and would cost about $1.5 billion by the fourth year.
Liberals on the conference call admitted their claim of a $14 billion hole in the PC’s platform numbers is just their “excuse” to say the Tories would slash health care and education.
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