PROVINCIAL POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS CONTINUE

Back on May 14/14 Martin Regg Cohn in the Waterloo Region Record had an interesting take on the NDP election strategy. His opinion piece was titled "Public servants can thank the NDP for Tories' hard line". Mr. Cohn advises that there were two differing positions within the union movement regarding whether Andrea Horwath should have supported the Liberal budget or not. Pragmatically speaking it was as far left a budget as the Liberals had unleashed in a very long time. On the downside the longer the third party in the house props up a minority government, the more blame for the government's failures can accrue to the enabling third party. Therefore being responsible for the election is a mixed bag and subject to varying opinions.

The bottom line as to who best could forsee the publics' reaction to all this will not be known until election day is over. Hudak and the Conservatives see the possibility of kicking out an old scandal ridden government while the Liberals have jumped all over Hudak's plan to terminate 100,000 public servants jobs in the middle of a recession. The Liberals (and NDP) are also jumping all over Hudak's supposed million jobs creation plan. I've said it before and I'll say it again. The NDP haven't had such an opportunity in over two decades. Let's see what the voters think.