BREAKING: Here’s the cover of @OntarioPCParty election platform. It’s printed to look and feel like a magazine and contains 147 promises. pic.twitter.com/wlmdUyNOcR
— Mike Crawley (@CBCQueensPark) November 25, 2017
CBC reporter Mike Crawley attended the Ontario PC Convention Saturday and says the Progressive Conservative Party has put it cards on the table, releasing a full campaign platform with more than six months before the general election of 2018. Expectation is high among Tories and strategy never more scrutinized after the party lost two elections that many said it should have won. The Ontario Liberal Party has been in power under Dalton McGuinty and then Kathleen Wynne for 14 years. The platform is presented in a magazine-style document called the People’s Guarantee. In it, Brown signs a guarantee not to run for a second term if he fails to implement his five key promises. Those promises are:
- A 22.5 per cent tax cut for the middle class.
- A 75 per cent refund of child care costs.
- 12 per cent more off hydro bills.
- $1.9 billion in new funding for mental health, what the PCs call the largest such commitment by any province.
- Ontario’s first Trust, Accountability and Integrity Act.
