ST. CATHARINES, Ont. -- As Ontario's election campaign enters the home stretch, Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak says the Liberals will resort to scare tactics against him and his party in a bid to sway voters.
Hudak told a backyard "town hall" in St. Catharines that as the clock ticks down to voting day on Thursday, the Liberals will try to paint him and his platform as a bogeyman in order to deflect attention from their scandals.
"In the last few days of this campaign you're going to see a very, very crystal clear difference. You'll see the Liberals trying to frighten you about our plan because they don't want to talk about their record," he said Sunday.
"They're going to demand your vote because they're addicted to power."
Hudak's comments came on a day when Premier Kathleen Wynne penned an op-ed for the Toronto Star which tried to chase New Democrat voters into her fold, saying a vote for NDP leader Andrea Horwath will lead to Hudak winning the election.
The Liberals also put out an ad on Sunday designed to chip away at the NDP base.
Titled "Vote Horwath -- Elect Hudak," it warned of the Tory pledge to chop 100,000 public sector jobs and closed with a female narrator saying a "split vote will only help Hudak's chances."
Campaigning in Mississauga, Wynne told a rally that Horwath's NDP stands for nothing, while Hudak would take the province backwards.
Hudak said Wynne, who has branded her rivals as "desperate" scandal-mongerers, has "spent the entire campaign attacking everybody else and telling you what not to vote for."
He said that in the final days his strategy will be to remain rock-steady on relief for taxpayers and job creation.
