Ross Romano has a few questions for Michele McLeave-Kennedy

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ROSS ROMANO, PC CANDIDATE SAULT STE. MARIE
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Instead of talking about local issues like we have been doing with real people here in the Sault, it seems the NDP candidate in this riding is more interested in talking about what people are saying in downtown Toronto as she outlined in her recent letter. 

Ok. Let’s talk about the NDP’s central campaign then. Let’s talk about the people the NDP really stands for because I believe there is no party in Ontario that’s more Toronto-centric than the NDP. 

I want to know specifically what Michele McLeave-Kennedy thinks about the following: 

• With the Ring of Fire development approaching and our city poised to prosper with high-paying jobs because of it, the NDP has candidates who say Canada should stop mining completely. Andrea Horwath and the NDP have refused to condemn their candidate’s opinions, begging the question of what happens to the Sault and the north if the NDP was to win? 
• The NDP have a candidate who declared her opposition to wearing the red poppy on Remembrance Day calling it “brainwashing” and unnecessary landfill. How did Andrea Horwath respond? She defended this person’s right to disrespect our war veterans and their families. 
• The NDP has candidates who seem to have unconventional and insensitive views of the Holocaust with one of them posting an inspirational quote from Adolph Hitler on her Facebook page. And, yet, Andrea Horwath won’t remove her from the race. 

In the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, we honour our seniors, our veterans and our workers in the resource sector. We don’t demonize them like the NDP have done. As an elected representative, our role is to represent everyone equally and not just green lobbyists in downtown Toronto. 

Perhaps Ms. McLeave-Kennedy is upset because for the first time in history, the frontline USW workers here in the Sault voted to endorse my candidacy and the Progressive Conservative plan for Ontario. For these reasons, perhaps, she and her campaign team are spreading lies and personal attacks – something the NDP have confirmed they’re doing. These are the actions of desperate people. 

Let me be clear. A Progressive Conservative government is going to make Ontario a destination of choice for businesses. We will see the economy grow with jobs the likes we haven’t seen in 15 years. We are going to make record investments in mental health; we will build 30,000 long-term care beds and provide free dental care for low-income seniors. We will find 4 cents on every dollar the government spends to fund our platform. 

Our local NDP candidate doesn’t want to talk about this. She wants to talk about the ideas she’s being given by her bosses in downtown Toronto. 

So, I’ll end where I started and that’s by calling on Ms. McLeave-Kennedy to publicly condemn her NDP teammates who have come out disrespecting our veterans, promote inspirational quotes from Hitler, and who say we should shut down all mines. Why is she so silent on these issues? Where does she stand? I think voters have a right to know. 

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