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The governing B.C. Liberals ended a 20-year-long debate on Saturday about their identity, as delegates strongly rejected a motion to change the party name.

The party launched a review at the request of Premier Christy Clark, reflecting unease with the "Liberal" tag in a coalition party that is home to a large segment of federal Conservatives.

Ms. Clark launched the review two years ago, when her party was struggling to renew that centre-right coalition. A year later, the B.C. Liberals won a fourth consecutive provincial election, effectively ending the question of whether the Liberal brand was a problem at the polling booth.

"It's a good brand," said Rich Coleman, a senior cabinet minister who represents the party's Conservative wing. "We can win in 2017 with the B.C. Liberal label."

Former MLA Colin Hansen, who was appointed two years ago to look at the issue, told delegates only 288 members bothered to respond to his consultation.

And even then, he noted, there was no easy alternative because so many other possible names have already been taken.

Liberal MLA John Martin, whose defection from the B.C. Conservative party on the eve of the last election helped patch up the fractures in the Liberal coalition, told delegates that a name change now "would be the most foolish thing the party could do."

With the tone set and almost no further debate, the delegates overwhelmingly voted down the proposal to look at a name change by a show of hands.

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Jonathan Sher, QMI Agency May 24, 2014

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LONDON, Ont. - Tory Leader Tim Hudak stepped up his attacks on the Ontario Liberals Friday, accusing them of showering business buddies with corporate welfare in a way that invites corruption.

We will end these corporate handouts because they are economically disastrous, and morally wrong, Hudak told those at a London Chamber of Commerce lunch.

This crony capitalism big government getting into bed with big business is how corruption starts, he said.

The location of his attack was no surprise. No region in Ontario has been harder hit by or slower to recover from recession than the southwest.

And Hudak has ground to make up, according to QMI Agency poll done by Abacus Data that found that only 26% of Ontarians think Conservatives are the best party to manage jobs and the economy five points behind the Liberals.

The McGuinty-Wynne government just allocated an astonishing $2.5 billion twice as much as the gas plant scandal to a corporate welfare slush fund to be handed out at the sole discretion of Liberal politicians. There are no criteria. There is no accountability. There are no rules. The application process is to hire a Liberal insider to lobby, he said.

If the Tories form the government, the gravy train would stop and savings would be used to cut corporate taxes to 8% a rate he says would be the lowest in North America.

Also gone would be the practice of using economic development funds to prop up specific businesses no chance for Kelloggs to take millions for its Belleville plant only to kill more jobs closing its London factory.

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Will Campbell, The Canadian Press Published Saturday, May 24, 2014 12:09PM EDT Last Updated Saturday, May 24, 2014 4:19PM EDT

TORONTO -- Liberal Finance Minister Charles Sousa is accusing the Progressive Conservatives of using "voodoo math" to colossally inflate the number of new jobs a Tory government would create.

The Conservatives have made jobs the centrepiece of their campaign, promising to create half a million additional jobs over eight years with their cost- and tax-cutting policies

They'd hit their "million jobs" target by tacking that number onto the 523,000 new positions expected from normal economic growth over the same time period.

But Sousa said Saturday that PC Leader Tim Hudak's plan is riddled with mathematical inaccuracies and numbers that simply don't add up.

Sousa pointed to a Conference Board of Canada report commissioned for the Ontario Tories that helps underpin their employment projections, and said that it uses a different definition of employment than Hudak's plan -- resulting in what the Liberals call an eight-fold overstatement on jobs.

"In other words, Hudak didn't double count. He counted them eight times," Sousa said.

Sousa's own party has come under fire for questionable calculations in the past, particularly on its estimates for how much it cost to cancel two gas plants in the Toronto area in what the opposition parties have charged was an attempt to secure Liberal seats in the last provincial election.

The Liberals originally claimed the cost of scrapping one of the plants in Oakville would cost $40 million, but an investigation by the province's auditor general found the decision will cost at least $675 million, and possibly as much as $810 million.

Sousa, however, brushed off questions about how voters could trust Liberal math on the PC's platform.

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