Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath made one of her final stops in highly-contested ridings Wednesday landing in Cambridge at the campaign office of NDP candidate Marjorie Knight and offering hope to the people of Ontario.
“That's what the NDP is offering the people of Ontario, hope, there is hope that these things can be fixed, but in order to fix them, job number one is to defeat Doug Ford,” Horwath said.
Horwath met with all five of her candidates from Waterloo region during her Cambridge stop, making one final push to promote the NDP platform before tomorrow's election.
“People should be able to get the mental health care they need, the dental care they need with an OHIP card, not a credit card,” Horwath said.
The leader of Ontario’s NDP party announced her plan to bring back nurses and add hundreds of new positions in Cambridge.
Ontario has the lowest nurse-to-patient ratio in Canada, losing over 7,300 nurses in the last decade, she said.
The key to reversing that trend is retaining registered nurses and keeping turnover down, relating the loss of jobs to a revolving door.
Horwath has also criticized Ontario PC leader Doug Ford, saying he is just looking to make his friends rich and life harder for Ontarians.
“We have to stop conservative cuts, because conservative cuts are going to hurt people, they always do. Cuts and privatization don't work for Ontarians,” said Horwath. “They work for Doug Ford's buddies and Doug Ford's buddies are going to get everything they want from Doug Ford.”
She also called the conservatives approach with the media “shameful” and said there is a responsibility from politicians to inform the people of their plans and their decisions.
“I worry and I know Ontarians worry that the Conservatives have something up their sleeve that they don’t want people to know,” said Horwath.
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