Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne is putting the spotlight on NDP rival Andrea Horwath for vowing never to use back-to-work legislation if the surging New Democrats are elected June 7.“Their plan is not workable and people need to examine that,” Wynne said Wednesday in Toronto before flying north to shore up Liberal ridings in Sudbury and Thunder Bay with two weeks until voting day.Wynne’s government was widely criticized for waiting too long before ordering striking community college staff back to work last fall when the term was in jeopardy for students. She said a strike at York University would be over now if Horwath’s MPPs had not objected, and “York students could have been back at school.”At Seneca College, Horwath blamed the strikes on Wynne, saying the Liberal government “squeezed” funding for colleges and universities, forcing them to resort to more part-time and casual instructors.“I’m not going to take any advice from Kathleen Wynne and the Liberals, who for years now have been toe-to-toe with the doctors creating a lack of stability for patients,” said Horwath, who has increasingly become the target of attacks from the Liberals and Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford as her situation in the polls has improved.The latest Ipsos poll for Global News has Horwath neck-and-neck with Ford, with the Liberals trailing.Horwath staked out her opposition to back-to-work legislation — even in school strikes — in a meeting Tuesday with the Star’s editorial board, saying “it is very much against our values” and that workers should be free to engage in collective bargaining.Wynne said she’s glad to see New Democrat policies being put under a microscope.“Goodness knows there’s been scrutiny about what we’ve done,” she said. “That same scrutiny is now being applied to the NDP, and that’s as it should be.”Ottawa-area Conserv ...
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