As the provincial election campaign enters the home stretch, the leader of the NDP paid her second visit to the area in the last few weeks.
Andrea Horwath stopped in Chatham on Sunday to campaign with Chatham-Kent-Leamington candidate Brock McGregor and Lambton-Kent-Middlesex candidate Vanessa Benoit.
“I think that people realize that this time is a chance to really send somebody to Queen’s Park that’s going to be a voice for the community,” Horwath said. “What we saw was life get harder over the last four years, life didn’t get easier and our access to things like health care became more difficult. People, I think, understand this time around we have to stop those cuts, and the only way to do that is to elect a New Democrat like Brock or like Vanessa in communities like this.”
Horwath says seniors in particular are concerned about cuts to health care and long term care and need greater supports to provide dignity and quality of life.
“What we know is we can provide better in smaller communities, we can provide for better home care, we can provide for better health care, and we can make sure people feel like they are part of the bigger province and that they’re not forgotten.”
Elsewhere on the campaign trail, Conservative Leader Doug Ford was joined by area candidates, including Monte McNaughton, at a rally in London.
Liberal leader Steven Del Duca was meeting supporters in Windsor on Sunday morning before heading back east to Toronto for a rally later in the afternoon.
