His political platform also plans to lower business taxes.

“There’s no doubt that we need tax relief, we need that because it’ll spur the economy and encourage people to spend and businesses to hire again,” said Hudak.

“There’s no doubt we’ll have to make tough and long overdue choices to rein in spending. The government has to spend within its means and put behind us this sort of waste and self-interest the Liberals have displayed.”

McKenna says it’s time to “turn this province around,” referring to the high debt and deficit of $12.5-billion the province is currently facing.

“It’s an economic disaster, that’s not economic growth. We need to turn that around. For Burlington, most people leave to work (outside the city) and we want to get people to work, live and play here.”

Although Burlington has a history of voting Conservative provincially for the past seven decades, the idea of the Conservative party being a minority government is a possibility, but that doesn’t faze McKenna or Hudak, in fact, McKenna said at least they’d be governing.

“For the past 11 years we didn’t have governing with the NDP; their policy is just to spend where our policy is to get the debt under control and create the environment that people want to stay here and be here.”

Hudak says they’d still get the job done if put in a minority government situation.

“We’ll be highly effective because we’ll focus on what’s important to people in Burlington and across the province and that’s jobs,” he said.

“I’m going to work hard each and every day. If you want to see a premier that’s focused on short-term popularity and making all kinds of promises on spending they can’t afford then don’t vote for me. You’ve got two choices. But if you want somebody focused like a laser on jobs that has a turnaround for Ontario look to me and look to my plan.”

Voters head to the polls June 12.