{"id":14606,"date":"2014-06-12T01:10:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T17:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=14606"},"modified":"2014-06-12T01:10:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T17:10:42","slug":"liberal-apologizes-for-flyer-depicting-hudak-laughing-as-hospital-explodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/12\/liberal-apologizes-for-flyer-depicting-hudak-laughing-as-hospital-explodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal apologizes for flyer depicting Hudak laughing as hospital explodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11455\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11455\" style=\"width: 621px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Tim-Hudak-e1400694214546.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11455\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Tim-Hudak-e1400694214546.png\" alt=\"PC Leader Tim Hudak. Photo courtesy of Hudak's Facebook page.\" width=\"621\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Tim-Hudak-e1400694214546.png 621w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Tim-Hudak-e1400694214546-300x229.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11455\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PC Leader Tim Hudak. Photo courtesy of Hudak&#8217;s Facebook page.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO &#8212; A Liberal member of the Ontario legislature is apologizing for distributing flyers showing Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak laughing as a hospital explodes in the background.<\/p>\n<p>The flyers imposed Hudak&#8217;s image over top of the Joker character from the Batman movie &#8220;The Dark Knight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With just 24 hours until polls open, Liberal Steven Del Duca took to Twitter to say he was sorry to Hudak, calling the flyers &#8220;a mistake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/timhudak\">@timhudak<\/a> Please accept my apology. The flyer was a mistake for which I am sorry. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23onpoli&amp;src=hash\">#onpoli<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23voteon&amp;src=hash\">#voteon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steven Del Duca (@StevenDelDuca) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StevenDelDuca\/statuses\/476690919781986304\">June 11, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But deputy PC leader Christine Elliott calls the flyers a deliberate, &#8220;sickening&#8221; attack, and says it was fear-mongering at its worst to scare voters into voting Liberal.<\/p>\n<p>She says such tactics should be beneath the Liberal campaign team or any politicians.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberals and Conservatives are believed to be in a virtual tie heading into Thursday&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n<p>All three leaders are putting in one final push on the last full day of campaigning, with Premier Kathleen Wynne staying in Toronto but focusing on NDP and Tory-held ridings.<\/p>\n<p>NDP Leader Andrea Horwath has stops in Mississauga, Brampton and three ridings in Toronto, plus three ridings the NDP does not hold in Oshawa, Belleville and Kingston.<\/p>\n<p>The Tory bus also starts out in Mississauga, but Hudak then heads south to Waterloo, Niagara Falls and Jarvis, where he&#8217;ll wrap up his campaign with a town hall meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8212; A Liberal member of the Ontario legislature is apologizing for distributing flyers showing Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[552,1112,3036],"class_list":["post-14606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","tag-elections","tag-ontario","tag-tim-hudak","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}