Ontario NDP target of attacks as polls put them at same support as Tories
TORONTO — Ontario’s opposition parties seemed to write off the governing Liberals nearly halfway through the province’s election campaign, as new polls suggest the Progressive Conservatives and the New Democrats are tied for the most support.
Premier Kathleen Wynne — whose Liberals have fallen to third place in recent polls — appeared to concede Tuesday that it is not going as well as she might have hoped for her party, which has been in power for 15 years.
“I’m not under any illusion that this is not a challenging election for us,” she said during a campaign stop in Toronto.
“I absolutely get that…It’s a really, really important election for this province because it is an election about what our province is going to look like going forward.”