Premier Kathleen Wynne is touting her ability to help people find jobs in a bid to keep her own.

The Ontario Liberals will hit airwaves across the province on Wednesday with a new 30-second TV commercial showcasing Wynne as a job creator.

Timed to coincide with five Aug. 1 byelections and narrated by the premier, the party-funded ad features gauzy shots of cavorting children, fast-moving night-time traffic, a farmer harvesting, and workers in offices and factories.

“Whether it’s your first day or your 35th anniversary, whether it’s in the city you grew up in or the town you’re raising your family in, on Main Street or the Tenth Line, whether it’s on the farm or the factory floor and whether it’s a starting point or your dream, it’s a job,” Wynne says in a soothing tone.

“I’m Kathleen Wynne and it’s my job to create more of them,” she says over scenes of her meeting with voters in a variety of campaign settings.

Interestingly, the ad echoes one her predecessor, Dalton McGuinty, did in the run-up to the October 2011 election.

That 60-spot, entitled “The Ontario Way,” depicted auto workers firefighters, doctors, and nurses doing their jobs.

“What defines Ontario? From Thunder Bay to Shirley’s Bay, Hammertown to Hogtown, what makes us who we are? I could sit here and tell you that it’s our ability to lead,” McGuinty said in the 2011 ad.

“But you already know that. You already know that we’re a province of hard workers, not complainers. When we get knocked down, we help each other up.”

The latest commercial — Wynne’s first since succeeding McGuinty five months ago — comes as the minority Liberals contest byelections in Toronto, Ottawa, London, and Windsor.

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