May 7: The main parties seem to be a choice between the frying pan or the fire

The day we have all been anxiously waiting for. NOT.
As many elections these days this one has been triggered by a party leader who thinks the polls are in their favour and not because of a principled, people centred response to bad policy.
Mind you, the NDP decision to NOT support the Liberal budget is a good thing, because Ontario's terrible finances were just about to go from bad to worse, so they have done us a favour.
Our challenge as Green Party candidates to have you, the voter, see that you currently have a choice between a frying pan or a fire. Let me clarify.

The fire: the PCs under Hudak are clearly soley focussed on reducing the size of government and in particular the deficit. This is, in and of itself, a good thing. However,  by focussing on policies that seem to be copies of the "right to work" states of the southern USA we risk turning ourselves into a second rate jurisdiction who is racing to the bottom, an approach that will, in the long term, not improve the lives of most Ontarions.
The frying pan: the Liberal and NDP; note that I am lumping them together. Why? Because the Wynn Liberal budget is more of an NDP style budget that even the NDP would have the audicity to cobble together. It is so grandiose and so unrealistic that it can only be seen as a marketing pitch and not as a serious attempt to build a fiscally and socially policy from. While I applaud the focus on serious issues like the recognition for investments in mass transit I cannot see a sustainable approach recommended to fund these needed investments.
That brings me back to the Green Party approach; to invest the Public good, but to do without creating a burden for our children. We must live within our means, yet invest in projects which will make us more productive and more competitive so we do not 'race to the bottom' by an obession with low wage jobs but rather 'race to the top' by working with industry to create the infrastructure for companies that will create high paying jobs for Ontario. Does this sound like a pipe dream? Germany has done it. It works. But it takes the government, industry and educational and training institutions working together to train the right people fo the right jobs with the best infrastructure to compete with the world's best.
That approach is one reason, of many, to vote for the Green Party June 12!