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Health care, tax cuts and Highway 401 tunnel focus of Ontario campaign trail

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 07 Feb, 2025 11:15 AM
  • Health care, tax cuts and Highway 401 tunnel focus of Ontario campaign trail

Health care, tax cuts and a pledge to build a tunnel under Highway 401 are the focus on the Ontario campaign trail today.

NDP Leader Marit Stiles has pledged to connect every Ontarian to a family doctor or nurse practitioner at a cost of more than $4 billion.

Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie also reiterated her pledge to get everyone a family doctor at a stop in Thunder Bay, Ont.

Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner says if his party forms government, it would cut income taxes for those earning less than $65,000 annually and raise taxes on those in the top tax bracket.

Meanwhile, Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford has pledged to build a traffic and transit tunnel under Highway 401 that would stretch from Mississauga in the west to Markham in the east.

The snap election called by Ford will be held Feb. 27, more than a year before the next fixed election date.

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