For the third time in a couple of weeks, Premier Dalton McGuinty was in Oakville.
Today he was announcing HOV lanes for the QEW, which will be ready, if he's re-elected, in 2011.
Having grown up in Oakville and driven on the QEW roughly 2 billion times, I can confidently say the QEW needs some work. But 2011? Is that really how long it takes to build highway lanes?
Putting that aside, I have been trying to figure out why the leaders have been spending so much time in Mississauga and Oakville.
While waiting for John Tory today, one PC worker told me he thinks the entire west GTA is in play. That may be wishful thinking on his part, but the leaders are certainly spending a lot of time here.
On the other hand, it might just be cheaper to stay in the GTA, near home base in Toronto, before branching out once the actual campaign starts on Sept. 10. Then, when the actual campaign starts, they can start using campaign cash to fund the trips.
The real indication of how close the parties think the west GTA is will come in September.
If they keep showing up here as they have been for the past four weeks or so, they're going to have to start paying property taxes for their campaign RVs.