Elizabeth Rowley, Leader, Communist Party (Ontario)

This election, we stand at a crossroads. We can move forward towards political, social and economic reforms, desperately needed after more than a decade of right wing governments. Or we can go back to the reactionary prescriptions of the Tories and the broken Liberal remedies that will erode democracy, privatize health care and education, shrivel social programs, destroy jobs and futures, and make civil, democratic and labour rights disappear.

The best outcome of this election would be a minority government, where the public could hold the government's feet to the fire, forcing it to enact essential legislation benefiting working people. The last minority government in Ontario -- a coalition government of NDP and Liberal -- ended 50 years of Tory government, and forced the delivery of some very progressive legislation.

To move in a new direction, Ontario needs a new balance of forces inside the Legislature. We need a strong progressive block of MPPs, including Communists, left-wing Greens and NDPers, and others; who can work together to break up the neo-liberal grip on the Legislature, and fight to implement a People's Agenda - policies aimed to meet people's needs, not corporate greed.

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