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OTTAWAConservative MP Eve Adams is in a tough fight to run as a candidate in Oakville North-Burlington in 2015, but a poll this week is showing that the real Conservative battle in this new riding will be against the Liberals.

Forum Research Inc. polled more than 500 voters in the new riding of Oakville North-Burlington and found Conservatives were essentially tied with Liberals for support with 45 per cent saying they would vote Liberal and 42 per cent saying they would vote Conservative if an election was held today.

One-fifth of former Conservative voters in the riding said they would switch their votes to Justin Trudeaus Liberals, Forum found. The New Democrats had the support of just 8 per cent of the people polled.

Adams and local chiropractor Natalia Lishchyna are facing off on May 24 for the Conservative nomination, which has been dogged by controversy. Adams, the MP for Mississauga-Brampton South, has moved to this new riding as part of the large electoral-boundary shuffle looming for the next election when 30 new seats will be added to the Commons. Half of those new seats are in Ontario, especially in the burgeoning suburbs around the GTA, seen as crucial to all parties hopes for gains in 2015.

Adams fiance, Dimitri Soudas, was forced to resign as national director of the Conservative party after Prime Minister Stephen Harper learned that his former communications director had been interfering in the nomination race.

Soudas was out knocking on doors on Wednesday in the riding on Adams behalf and told the Star that he remained confident in her ability to win the nomination and the riding.

She is a strong workhorse with a track record of winning every election she has fought, Soudas said in an email. Eve has been door-knocking in Oakville North-Burlington for over a year.

With an election at least a year away and parties still lining up candidates for the new ridings, its likely too soon to see any local polls as a prediction of future results.

But the sampling of 530 voters opinions in Oakville North-Burlington does give a report card of sorts to the leadership of the three main parties.

Harper gets a 52-per-cent thumbs-down response to his leadership compared to 39 per cent who approve. Trudeau has a 47 per cent approval rate, compared to 40 per cent who disapproved of the job he was doing.

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NDP Leader Andrea Horwath says the Liberals are in the pocket of big insurance companies and could care less about the motoring public.

People are paying too much for insurance, she told reporters Tuesday at a campaign stop in Scarborough.

We are quite concerned the Liberals are more interested in keeping the insurance companies happy than they are about bringing down rates for drivers.

Howarth said the 15 per cent auto insurance reduction promised the 2013-14 budget has failed to live up to its billing.

And Horwath said if she was to become premier she would bring the industry to heel.

We do want to drive some changes in the auto insurance industry, she said, including forcing the industry to share the wealth.

I have been hearing all around the province people are not seeing a significant reduction in their auto insurance rates. Some people are seeing their rates go up, she told reporters at Malvern Town Centre.

The budget called for an average 15 per cent cut to premiums to be phased in over two years.

According the government, insurance rates on average have gone down 5.67 per cent as of April. The NDP wanted the 15 per cent decrease implemented all at once.

Horwath said that among other things, a NDP government would reduce the time it takes for government rate changes to be realized by the consumer.

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Ontario opposition parties are taking aim at Liberals and a bungled e-Health program that left doctors in the dark, patients at risk and tax dollars spent for naught.

Its another example of how wasteful the government is, NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said.

The program was supposed to enable hospitals in Southwestern Ontario to reduce medical errors and improve care by instantly sending electronic discharge records to family doctors.

But five years and millions of tax dollars after the program was launched, the records of two-thirds of patients are still taking more than 48 hours to get to their doctors. Such delays compromise care and increase the risk of error, family doctors say.

E-Health has been a colossal failure, said Kitchener-Conestoga Conservative MPP Michael Harris.

Liberals pushed through programs so quickly, They forgot to put standards in place, he said Tuesday.

Doctors concerns are showing in a troubling trend: A growing number of patients return to hospital less than 30 days after they were discharged.

The problem with the Southwest Physician Office Interface to Regional Electronic Medical Record System SPIRE for short led those who dole out health-care dollars in the region to insist each hospital report how well or poorly they are at getting discharge records to family doctors.

Asked about problems with SPIRE, Health Minister Deb Matthews praised it and encourages its use.

We are committed to supporting a seamless transition for patients as they go from hospital to the community. Thats why tools like SPIRE are important they help physicians share information about patients quickly, resulting in more appropriate care in the community, she wrote in an email to The Free Press.

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