Member of Provincial Parliament
Mississauga-Streetsville Provincial Liberal Association
Riding Association Web Site
Surely western Mississauga deserves better than this!
Is this really what the imploding Conservative election campaign has been reduced to? Sign defacing and throwing verbal spitballs composed entirely of fabrications? So it seems, as the Conservatives in Mississauga-Streetsville seem to have just stopped campaigning, and are resorting entirely to the usual losers' tricks.
Ironically, for the first time (probably in living memory), the NDP is actually running a proactive campaign. With $9 billion in proposed tax increases and a completely uncosted platform that they appear to make up on the fly, it isn't much of a campaign. The taped all-candidates debates, airing on Rogers Cable TV (Channel 10) and also available at Rogers on Demand show the Conservatives reduced to repeating Hudak's phony baloney talking points, and even resorting to outright fabrication. The Tory Candidate flat-out stated that Ontario would cut funding to the Healthy Babies Healthy Children program. There is no other polite way to put this. The Conservatives lied. See opposite.
That's just a single example.
- A Liberal MPP in Brantford, in the midst of a technical discussion about electricity made an error, and called a cap-and-trade proposal to cut industrial carbon emissions a "carbon tax." He immediately realized he had misspoken and corrected the error. The Conservatives issued a flat-out-false radio ad, inventing the title of "junior minister" (truth check: Ontario has no such thing. Parliamentary Assistants have no ministerial title) and falsely asserted that the Liberals were going to implement such a measure;
- After being lambasted for their flat-out-false assertions about the proposed employer training tax credit for Ontario residents who obtained their skills and work experience abroad, the Mississauga-Streetsville PC Candidate publicly endorsed the tax credit at a debate, and when asked about the issue in the Rogers all-candidates taped debate, evaded the question and changed the subject;
- Hudak ignores the fact that the total tax "burden" on Ontarians is lower today than on the last day his party last held office;
- Don't forget the Conservative fiction on the very hydro debt they themselves created while in government. Read this.
The fiscally-responsible, socially-progressive vote in western Mississauga has been a Liberal vote since 2003. The travesty of the Conservative campaign keeps bringing in the folks who remember the post-war era of building a strong Ontario into the arms of the Bob Delaney campaign. It's time to recognize a loser in the 2011 Conservative campaign. If you look into the mirror, see the values that built Ontario in you, and believe in balanced budgets and progressive policies in Lisgar, Meadowvale and Streetsville, maybe you ought to have a Bob Delaney sign on your lawn and vote for a candidate who actually does what he says he will do. The results speak for themselves.