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MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak says his Liberal and NDP opponents are trying to turn the June 12 election into a popularity contest with promises Ontario can’t afford. However, a former top PC says the election is a popularity contest that Hudak can’t win.

Hudak says as far as he’s concerned it’s a single-issue election focused on job creation. At his first campaign stop of the day at a factory in Mississauga, he was light on details about how the Conservatives plan to lower electricity rates, reduce the debt and create one million jobs.

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Hudak could not avoid questions about his own popularity, however, after the Tories’ former finance critic, Peter Shurman, predicted on a Toronto radio station that the election will result in another Liberal minority government.

Shurman, who quit politics in a dispute with Hudak over expenses, said there is no doubt the election is a popularity contest and that’s why he thinks Premier Kathleen Wynne will win.