"[Ontario PC Leader Tim] Hudak said in February that he would not pursue right to work
legislation if he becomes premier. But now his claims for a million jobs
rely in part on right to work laws coming to Ontario. That means either
Hudak is still committed to the idea or the analysis is even more
deeply flawed. Either way, we can’t trust the numbers.
"The Conservatives’ own
analysis claims that Hudak’s regulatory changes would mean a one-time
boost of 10,600 jobs. But once the Conservative campaign team got its
hands on the research, the claim was inflated to 84,800 jobs, or 10,600
in each of the next eight years.
"That’s a far cry from the one-time boost their analysis predicted.
"So this is what we end up with: job creation numbers based on suspect
assumptions, stemming from a policy that Hudak claims he will not
pursue, and then multiplied by eight by the Conservative campaign team."
Anyone but Tim Hudak for Ontario premier | Toronto Star
Jerry Dias is National President of Unifor, Canada’s
largest union in the private sector. To see Unifor’s research into Tim
Hudak’s job plan, go to: http://www.unifor.org/sites/default/files/brief-statements/zycher_and_million_jobs_final.pdf
