A couple of election candidates in Nipissing have officially kicked off their campaigns. PC Incumbent Vic Fedeli and Northern Ontario Party Leader Trevor Holliday held campaign office openings on Friday.

Fedeli says a Ford government is committed to more long term beds to improve the hallway health care crisis.

“We’re going to open 15,000 long term care beds in the first 5 years and 30,000 in the first 10 years and that’ll alleviate the strain in hospitals,” he says.
Fedeli says the PC’s will decrease taxes for the middle class by 20 per cent but that’s not all.

He says there’s a major rebate on daycare coming.

“This can be in independent daycare homes. It covers newborns to 15 so it’s a very extensive plan. So you can use nannies anything that you’re paying your daycare with and it’s up to $6,750 per child, Fedeli says.

Holliday says it’s important someone represents the north. He says he’s concerned about physician recruitment and getting docs to stay here.

“What incentive is for them to stay here. In transportation, our highways are privately maintained by contractors so there’s less reason to provide the high standard that we’ve had,” he says.
Holliday says southern Ontario politicians on a wide range of issues including gas prices aren’t paying attention to the north so there’s a need for the Northern Ontario Party.

“You don’t see any of the big parties saying we can make a difference because they could have already done that at Queens Park. They could have introduced bills. Hydro prices are going through the roof,” Holliday says.
Ontarians head to the polls on June 7th.

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