Ontario PCs choose the path of most resistance with Doug Ford
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With Dalton McGuinty at the helm, the party expertly whipped up Islamophobic fears by couching a rejection of publicly funding religious schools in concerns about “segregation.”Last election, the focus was on Tim Hudak’s destructive impact on the public service via his promise to eliminate 100,000 jobs (which was proposed to happen through attrition, but that detail got lost when the Wynne Liberals took control of the message). With the help of their union friends who ran attacks warning against Hudak’s cuts to classrooms, canada goose coats on sale the province’s police force, hospitals and so forth the Liberals framed the choice as one between Kathleen Wynne’s “safe hands” or the other guy’s “reckless schemes.” In the end, Ontarians chose canada goose replica the devil they knew.The party has wasted no time now in stoking fears about Ford. 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