TORONTO - Day 23 of the Ontario election campaign has the three major party leaders concentrating their efforts on southern Ontario.
Premier Dalton McGuinty has stops planned in Pickering, Cambridge and London.
All of NDP Leader Andrea Horwath's events Thursday are in Toronto, while Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak is in Ottawa.
While the leaders criss-cross the province, the Chiefs of Ontario say First Nations citizens and their issues are not getting any attention.
"Our issues should be issues of concern to all Ontarians, not just First Nations," Angus Toulouse, Ontario regional chief, said Wednesday.
Last week, the Chiefs of Ontario hosted a town hall forum for party leaders in the provincial race.
Not one party leader was available to attend, said the group, which represents 133 First Nations communities.
Wednesday on the campaign trail, McGuinty touted his experience in an effort to sway Ontario voters to the Liberal camp.
The province needs "a strong champion at the national table," one willing to throw some elbows to make sure the province gets what it needs, McGuinty said.
Hudak can't be trusted to stand up the Prime Minister Stephen Harper and defend Ontario's health-care and jobs, he added.
Hudak, meanwhile, was talking about putting the province's prisoners to work.
Inmates in Ontario jails can say goodbye to days spent watching television, playing poker and lifting weights if the Conservatives win on Oct. 6, Hudak vowed.
Hudak promised to force the roughly 2,900 prisoners to work 40 hours a week, without pay, cleaning up parks and other public spaces.
Horwath got in a bit of hot water Wednesday about comments she made about a Hamilton hospital during Tuesday's debate.
Julian Leonetti, 18, went to the emergency room after a skateboarding accident, Horwath said Tuesday, and "they didn't do anything for his fractured elbow."
Horwath said she doesn't blame hospitals, but blames the government for focusing more on CEO salaries than on patient care.
