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Nepean-Carleton Inside debate focuses on NEWS jobs, hydro rates Jennifer McIntosh jennifer.mcintosh@metroland.com
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Meet the candidates: A look at the people running in Nepean-Carleton. - Page 25
News - Rookie NepeanCarleton Liberal candidate Jack Uppal was on the defensive during a televised debate that aired on Rogers, May 29. Uppal said the Liberals did very well coming out of the recession, but incumbent Lisa MacLeod said the Liberals budget is not workable. “Ontario has the highest annual deficit and accumulated debt of any province,” she said. “Since the Liberals took office in 2003, the number of public sector workers has grown by 300,000. That’s happened while we continue to lose jobs in the manufacturing sector. Their plan is not workable.” Ric Dagenais, the NDP candidate also took some criticism for what MacLeod called enabling the Liberals. “Their platform is a mirror of the Liberal budget,” MacLeod said. Dagenais and Uppal in turn attacked the Conservatives million jobs plan.
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“The mathematics on the plan are wrong,” Uppal said. Green Party candidate Gordon Kubanek said their needs to be a middle ground between the Conservatives “slash and burn” plan and overspending. He called the province’s deficit a disaster, but said there needs to be a more balanced approach to get the province back on track than the one the Conservatives are proposing. The candidates spent a lot of time hashing out rising hydro rates , with Lisa Macleod blaming the Green Energy Act and utility companies like Hydro One and Ontario Power Generation for driving prices up. Kubanek said green energy wasn’t to blame. “Green Energy can help reduce cost, but it was the policies of the Liberals that are to blame here,” he said. Dagenais said the NDP planned to take HST off Hydro bills and get rid of the debt retirement charge. He moved the topic to transportation, saying staggered work hours, four-day work weeks and expanding telecommuting would mean people would use electricity at off peak hours and save money. Uppal said the Liberals support every kind of mass transit. Kubanek said urban planning and intensification are some of the ways we can improve mobility. Macleod said growth in Riverside South and Barrhaven are what prompted her to fight for funding for the Strandherd-Armstrong Bridge and she promised to “fight like heck” to make sure Ottawa got its fair share of provincial transit funding.
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