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Tim Hudak’s plan for Ontario is bold but it is not clear.

You find this out if you try to make sense of the numbers of jobs he says he’d cut and the ones he says his policies would create.

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Hudak says, in his I’m-a-reasonable-man voice, that he’d cut 100,000 jobs from a public payroll of a million.

To arrive at that tally, though, the Tories have to include nearly 275,000 people who work for local governments across the province. There’s no other way to make the numbers add up. The province’s direct employees and the “broader public sector” of school boards, universities, hospitals and Crown corporations only add up to about 775,000.

If the Tories are going after cities and towns, that opens whole new vistas of potential service chops and — perhaps more politically importantly — drags influential local politicians into the election. Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion signed on with the Liberals the other day over transit funding, for instance.