Ontario NDP become target over nuclear plant closure plans

Ontario’s Liberal and PC leaders took aim the province’s New Democrats over an NDP plan to start decommissioning the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station this year. PC Leader Doug Ford said the move would put thousands out of work. (May 22, 2018) 1. SOUNDBITE: Andrea Horwath, Ontario NDP leader 2. SOUNDBITE: Doug Ford, Ontario PC leader 3. SOUNDBITE: Kathleen Wynne, Ontario Liberal leader PLACELINE: Toronto; Pickering, Ont. CREDIT: The Canadian Press STORYLINE: Both the Progressive Conservatives and the Liberals set their sights on the NDP on Tuesday as new polls suggest the party is tied for the most support in the Ontario election. Premier Kathleen Wynne _ whose Liberals have fallen to third place in recent polls _ appeared to concede that it is not going as well as she might have hoped for her party, which has been in power for 15 years. ``I'm not under any illusion that this is not a challenging election for us,'' she said during a campaign stop in Toronto. ``I absolutely get that...It's a really, really important election for this province because it is an election about what our province is going to look like going forward.'' Two recent polls suggest that the NDP now has the most support in the election, along with the Progressive Conservatives.