MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Positive reinforcement motivates the five-year-olds his wife teaches in the classroom, and now Premier Dalton McGuinty says he'll employ the same technique to push the prime minister for more money for Ontario.
McGuinty was reacting today to a series of pre-election funding announcements for Ontario's troubled auto sector made by the federal Conservatives just days before an expected election.
He said he'll take his cue from his schoolteacher wife in addressing Prime Minister Stephen Harper's handout to a closed engine plant in Windsor.
He says he'll "positively reinforce" Harper's announcement, the same way his wife Terri encourages her five-year-old pupils.
Harper is expected to announce the funding this afternoon at Ford's mothballed Essex plant.
The announcement comes amid a flurry of pre-election spending the federal Conservatives chastised their predecessors for.
McGuinty says it's good news for Windsor, but it still doesn't address Ottawa's unfair treatment of the province.
