Have you ever noticed how vague to Ontario NDP's election platform is on progressive social change? The following article suggests that Andrea Horwarth is a de facto operative for a far right conserative agenda, and has apparently hijacked the Ontario NDP.

Only their mothers can tell them apart.

Ontario Liberal candidate Kathleen Wynne said Saturday that NDP Leader Andrea Horwath and PC Leader Tim Hudak are joined at the political hip, voting the same way 183 times in the Legislature.

“Both Horwath and Hudak voted against Second Career for retraining Ontario workers, they both voted against infrastructure projects that created 70,000 jobs, they both voted against the HST, now they’re offering unfunded tax giveaways and neither of them have committed to repealing the HST,” Wynne said. “So their election platforms are kind of moving in lock step with each other.

“While we might have expected this from the PCs, this kind of simplistic short-sightedness, I think it’s really disappointing to hear it from Horwath’s NDP,” Wynne added.

Wynne said a recent Sun Media story, that revealed that Horwath would not rule out propping up an Ontario Tory minority government, shows the two are too close.

To make their point, the Liberals made up a mock “Hudak Helper” poster, modelled on the Hamburger Helper box, that features the two opposition leaders together.

A fired-up Horwath ripped the Liberals for their “Hudak Helper” attack, using some of her strongest language yet on the campaign trail.

“I’m tired of the name calling, I’m tired of the way the Liberals have decided to run this campaign,” Horwath said. “(Voters) have had a status quo for eight years that hasn’t been working for them, their lives have become less and less affordable, they can’t make ends meet, their healthcare system is eroding...and all the Liberals can come up with is name calling and scare-mongering?”

While Horwath distanced herself from Hudak by poking holes in his platform, she refused to clearly rule out working with a Tory minority government.

Current polls show the Tories and Liberals are in a dead heat which would likely put the NDP in the position of picking which of the two parties would form the next government.

Internet site reference: http://www.lfpress.com/news/ontarioelection/2011/09/24/18734351.html