‘Steal this plan’ Hudak tells Wynne

Jacqui Delaney —

In stark contrast to the Liberals’ No-Plan-At-All Plan, Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak today invites Premier Kathleen Wynne to either “steal” his party’s plan to save Ontario or admit to not caring about half a million jobless Ontarians.

Standing by a display of his party’s ready-to-go Paths to Prosperity economic initiatives, Hudak is introduced key frontline members of his Jobs Team, newly-appointed Labour Critic Monte McNaughton and Economic Development, Trade and Employment Critic Jane McKenna.

“On Thursday we had a Premier dismissing Ontarians with an ‘ask me in six months’ response to a legitimate question about her party’s jobs plan,” says Hudak. “And then, on the weekend, she was talking about launching a website to ‘consult’ with taxpayers.

“Consult? I thought we’d already had nine months of consulting. What we have here is a Liberal Party that has no idea how to get out of the mess they created.

“So here is what we are saying to them today. Please steal our plan. Take it, and save this province  now,” says Hudak. “It’s done. It’s fine-turned. It’s ready to go.

“Our people need jobs, they need the restoration of the economic confidence that was once the envy of this country, and they need to sense there is true prosperity ahead.”

Both McNaughton and McKenna agree.

“One of the saddest stories coming out of this past weekend was a study out of the University of Waterloo showing that unemployment among young people is worse in Ontario than in rust belt states like Indiana and Ohio,” says McNaughton.

“This is not just sad, it’s a crisis. Our youth represent our future, yet they have been abandoned by a decade of Liberal apathy. We will not write them off.

“We see them as vital,” adds McNaughton. “And we have policies to make sure they get the skills necessary to lead our children’s children along the same path to prosperity.”

“Where the Liberals delivered our youth despair, we will deliver hope,” says McKenna. “Youth are a key in our economic development plan, and that plan is laid out clearly and precisely in virtually every economic white paper.

“They are not after-thoughts. They are fore-thoughts.”