LONDON, ONT.—In the final few days of the election campaign, NDP Leader Andrea Horwath says voters need to think about life under a PC government and what its $6 billion in “efficiencies” will mean.And she said regardless of the outcome of the Thursday’s vote, she won’t work with the Liberals — or the Conservatives.Read more:What’s at stake for Toronto in Ontario’s electionFacing defeat, Kathleen Wynne shifts to legacy modeNDP eyes sweep of Toronto’s downtown ridings“Even Kathleen Wynne is not endorsing Kathleen Wynne anymore,” she quipped, referring to the Liberal leader’s concession on the weekend that her party could not win the June 7 election. “But that does leave people with a very obvious choice to make…and I just want to ask people who have not made up their minds to imagine what Friday might look like with Doug Ford at the helm.“… This election is just a couple of days away, and it is coming down to the wire,” Horwath said at an early morning visit to the campaign office of London North Centre candidate Terence Kernaghan, a seat the NDP hopes to gain from the Liberals, alongside London West incumbent candidate Peggy Sattler.“The two choices that people have could not be more different.”Horwath has a busy couple of days scheduled, with five stops alone on Monday throughout southwestern Ontario.She said the Progressive Conservative plan, which makes spending and tax cut promises without any details on how they will be paid for, will mean billions in cuts to services.“That’s not what the people of Ontario need or deserve,” she said. The NDP is promising universal pharmacare, child-care and injecting billions into hospitals, among other things, and has said it will run a deficit to do so.Although the PCs have been hammering at the NDP for “radical candidates,” on Monday allegations surfaced about another Tory candid ...
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