Horwath campaigns in Wynne’s territory

NDP leader made visit to premier’s riding of Don Valley West

Days after Kathleen Wynne campaigned in Andrea Horwath’s riding of Hamilton Cen- tre, the NDP leader returned the favour by stumping in the Liberal leader’s home turf of Don Valley West.

“People are prepared to do something different this time,” Horwath said Friday at the Bayview Ave. campaign office of lo- cal NDP candidate Amara Possian.

“So it doesn’t matter if it’s a Conservative-held riding in the past or whether it’s a Liberalheld riding in the past — in both scenarios our candidates and our campaign volunteers are saying ‘we need some help because there’s something rollin’ here and we need to take advantage of it.’ ”

Her comments came as she was heading off to St. Catharines, which has been represented by Liberal Jim Bradley for the past 41 years.

“I’m going as leader to every riding I possibly can to show the people of those ridings as well as our candidates that we’ve got one couple last of push, days which leading is the up next to Thursday and we can do this. We can make the change that Ontario needs — change for the better.”

On Wednesday, premier Wynne took her own electoral campaign to Hamilton Centre to stump directly against her NDP rival.

In the wake of an investigation by the Globe and Mail that former Liberal cabinet minister Glen Murray, who retired from Wynne’s government last sum- mer, pressured the then mayor of Caledon in 2013 to back a Bolton property development, Horwath promised action if elected June 7.

An NDP administration would strike an all-party committee to take a look at the “improper influence” of the spending of public money.

Taking aim at Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford’s problems with candidate nominations, one of which is under investigation by the police in Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas, Horwath said that she would recommend necessary legislation “to get the corruption out” of candidate elections.