Leaders on campaign trail last weekend before vote

On Saturday, Andrea Horwath was hugged by tearful supporters and serenaded when she stopped by Hamilton’s farmer’s market for the 55’th anniversary of Sam’s Cheese and Meats.

“Andrea Horwath is a homegrown Hamiltonian, and we expect her to be down here with the rest of us and we love her to death,” said one supporter.

Horwath wants the legislature to hand over more OPP-requested gas plant documents before the election on Thursday. She says she is not nervous that the Liberal leader has spent so much time in Hamilton.

“The election is a referendum on corruption, and not a single Hamiltonian I’ve talked to in the market was thinking anything other than getting rid of Liberal corruption, said Horwath,

PC leader Tim Hudak stood in front of the now-empty lot where the Mississauga gas plant was to go, with pallets filled to look as if they contained bundles of hundred dollar bills.

“Here’s what a billion dollars actually looks like,” said Hudak as he motioned at the fake bills. He is calling for a judicial inquiry into the scandal.

From her first Hamilton stop of the day, Kathleen Wynne said her opponents have nothing better to talk about.

“People who don’t have a plan, all they can do is create controversy and sling mud,” said Wynne.

Some candidates are getting their first taste of nasty. Burlington Liberal candidate Eleanor McMahon says she doesn’t need to apologize for using a quote from outgoing PC MPP Frank klees on her campaign brochure. She also used NDP quotes from her time working at Queen’s Park. Klees called it unethical and sleazy manipulation.

“I think the people of Burlington understand there’s a difference between an endorsement of my candidacy and support of the work that i’ve done, which as the widow of an OPP officer, I’ve been very proud to do,” said McMahon.

The Liberals have also released tweets from Ancaster NDP candidate Alex Johnstone posted during the Liberal leadership in January 2013 when Johnstone was a trustee. She wrote that Wynne was the best education minister the province ever saw.

“We can have an even better education minister with an NDP government,” said Johnstone.