Can Hudak close the deal!

With all recent polls showing a surge in Liberal support, and even the chance of another Liberal Majority, PC's across Ontario must be asking what went wrong. As the election is still 2 days away, Tim Hudak and the PC's could still win this, but just in case they don't here are the reasons why they might not be able to close the deal.

Most of last year and even up to July of this year the PC's were at least 10-12 points ahead of the Liberals. The PC's came out with their platform in May, and had MPP's and selected candidates holding press conferences and town hall meetings all across the Province. They labelled McGuinty as the Tax Man, and the person who has broken promise after promise, gave us the HST, EcoFees, and blew 1 billion on eHealth.

I feel that Hudak just did not connect with the average person on the street. People did not know him, and even to this day they still don't. The Liberals were quick to place the Harris label on him, and it stuck. Hudak was a junior minister in the Harris cabinet during the days of massive cuts to our health care system.

The top issues facing voters is creating jobs, health care, and education. Hudak had the chance to come out with bold ideas during the campaign, and instead he talks about GPS devices on criminals, and creating chain gangs. He also stayed the course in both Health Care and Education, and was going to follow the Liberal plan which was taken from the last budget.

Another big negative was PM Harper, and Finance Minister Flaherty coming out and indirectly throwing his support behind Hudak. The Liberals took full advantage of this, and with the start of talks with the Federal Government about The Health Accord which expires in 2012, the Liberals came out with ads saying who would you rather have fighting for you in Ottawa, the Liberals who have hired 11,000 nurses, built 18 new hospitals, and has the lowest wait times in Canada. On the other hand you have Hudak, who was part of the Harris government that fired nurses, closed hospitals, and we had the longest wait times in Canada.

I really think the turning points for Hudak were the upcoming Health Accord talks, the tearing up of the Samsung deal, the GPS and Chain Gangs. So if Hudak does not win even an minority government he only has himself to blame, and I'm quite sure another leadership race will just be around the corner for the PC's.

Until next time!