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Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Christine Elliott has released her economic plan, saying she would cut the corporate tax rate.

Elliott says Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne has “no coherent plan” to eliminate the province’s $12.5-billion deficit, which the premier has vowed to do by 2017-18.

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Elliott says to get Ontario’s economy “back on track” she would lower the business tax rate from 11.5 per cent to 10 per cent over three years.

She says she would provide incentives to students and employers to get more young people into skilled trades, including making apprentices eligible for student loans.

She also says she would create a fund to support development of manufacturing technology and divest assets that don’t serve core functions of government.

Elliott is the only one of the three candidates who has not released the number of party memberships her campaign has sold, saying she is waiting for the official results to come out.

Barrie MP Patrick Brown, the only candidate without a seat in the Ontario legislature, says he sold more than 40,000 of the $10 PC memberships, which entitle people to vote for the new party leader in May.

London-area MPP Monte McNaughton boasted sales of just under 20,000 memberships, but a party source put that figure closer to 6,000.