Posted on Wed, Jan 12, 2011, 5:27 pm by Maria Babbage KITCHENER, Ont. – Premier Dalton McGuinty is giving voters a taste of what’s to come in the lead-up to the October election.
Looking much like Al Gore in “An Inconvenient Truth,” McGuinty stood in front of a giant screen Wednesday to make an elaborate, campaign-style pitch to a Kitchener business crowd.
But unlike the former U.S. vice-president, the premier used his slide show to paint a rosy picture of Ontario’s future under Liberal rule as photos and graphics flashed up on the screen behind him, including a picture of the youthful, long-haired McGuinty boating on Lac St. Pierre in 1973.
“It was a constant battle with my parents though, I can tell you that much,” he said later of his long hair.
McGuinty touted his government’s policies — from full-day kindergarten to green energy _during the 28-minute speech, as well as plans to develop clean-water technology and the Ring of Fire chromite deposit in the north.
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