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“I guess Democrats just worry about money in their pocket, what they and their friends are doing. They’re not worried about us small people,” Miller said.

“The Republicans, they are the ones that know… raised up like we have, you know. Know what it’s like, what we need, what shouldn’t been taken away,” Miller added.

“If there weren’t government programs, it would be a ghost town,” Miller said. He gets $380 on the sixth of every month, and with that he has to support himself and his girlfriend.

“One of the main reasons I came down here was to find workers,” Mr. Guimond says. “A lot of that has to do with Alberta, with young people in New Brunswick moving out West where the better money is, and so there is a dwindling population.

“But then when you can also get $400 a week back home for doing nothing, why would you go to work for me for an extra hundred bucks? That’s the mentality back home. And it is a shame. But that is what it is. There are some really great workers there, but the unemployment rate during winter — it’s got to be north of 20%.”

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne raised the spectre of the Walkerton water tragedy Thursday, warning that the Progressive Conservatives’ plan to cut 100,000 public sector jobs would have consequences.

In education, the Tories say they’ll increase class sizes, change staffing levels in full-day kindergarten classes and kill a 30% tuition grant for post-secondary students.

They’ll also raise targets for reading, writing and math, have a standardized test for Grade 8 science and bring in financial literacy curriculum.

Alberta baby names 2013 list reveals kids called Kindle, Lava, Daenarys and Peeta, but Olivia, Liam still tops