Trudeau and Scheer attack Ford and Wynne in battle for bountiful Ontario - 2019-09-23

Trudeau and Scheer attack Ford and Wynne in battle for bountiful Ontario September 23, 2019, Mike Blanchfield, Canadian Press, CityNews

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Ontario leaders — old and current — were pinned firmly in the crosshairs of Justin Trudeau and Andrew Scheer's federal battle Monday for the vote-rich province that represents the gateway to victory.

Trudeau fired the first shot, telling its voters not to "double down" on a Conservative government after they elected Doug Ford as premier. Trudeau used a new promise of a national pharmacare program to portray Scheer as a faithful Ford follower who won't defend people's interests in fighting for better access to doctors, drugs or mental health counsellors.

Scheer, meanwhile, evoked the vanquished Ontario Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne, and her predecessor Dalton McGuinty, linking her political demise to a federal leader he branded as corrupt and incapable of telling the truth. Scheer promised to make it cheaper for Canadians to buy a home, pledging to resurrect 30-year mortgages and ease the so-called stress test on new-home borrowing, while accusing Trudeau of digging Canadians deeper into debt.

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