TORONTO

Ontario Liberals and Progressive Conservatives are giving voters a choice between “bad ethics and bad math,” NDP candidate Jagmeet Singh says.

“We’ve heard a lot from cynics who insist in this campaign you don’t have a choice, that you have to choose between a Liberal party that doesn’t deserve re-election after 10 years of scandals or Tim Hudak’s plan to throw 100,000 people out of work,” Singh said Sunday. “That’s really not much of a choice is it?”

The Ontario NDP are launching a new ad just prior to the all-important televised leader’s debate Tuesday that pitches Andrea Horwath as a palatable option to the Kathleen Wynne Liberals.

Jagmeet Singh, the NDP candidate for Bramalea-Gore-Malton, said they want to tell people that they don’t have to choose between “Liberal corruption and the failed nonsensical ideas of Tim Hudak’s Conservatives.”

The ad features a number of voters explaining why “I’m voting for Andrea” and defends the party’s decision to oppose the last Liberal budget, although Wynne pulled the plug before the document got to a vote in the legislature.

The spot also builds on Horwath’s positive polling numbers for “honesty.”

Wynne criticized Horwath Saturday for failing to completely rule out a coalition to keep a minority PC government alive, calling it a “shock” and “outrageous” that the party of Jack Layton would even consider propping up the Tim Hudak PCs.

A vote for Horwath was a vote for Hudak, Wynne said.

Singh said Horwath is running to be premier, not to put someone else in that job.

On the “bad math” question, Nipissing PC candidate Vic Fedeli insisted Sunday that the party’s “one million jobs” plan is accurate.