“Give me a level playing field in Niagara Falls and I win that seat.
Ever soon resume. once again afloat Pc#
On Friday, PC leader Tim Hudak came out swinging also, pointing to the massive resources unions had mustered there. In a general election, that union support would be spread over 107 ridings - and Gates might not get re-elected. Yet, Gates squeaked by Tory candidate Bart Maves by less than 1,000 votes. Unions threw massive support into the riding and boasted about having 1,000 volunteers there during the campaign. If that happens within the next couple of months, it would be tough for the NDP to hang on to Niagara Falls. David Onley and ask him to dissolve Parliament, triggering an election. Two things could happen: Horwath could bring down the government over the budget. The NDP’s Wayne Gates, the union activist who won the Niagara Falls beyelection, could end up as a footnote of history - one of the shortest serving MPPs ever. Horwath is walking into the trap many deal-makers set when they keep an unpopular minority government afloat: they get power hungry - willing to give up their core principles in order to support a corrupt government and cling to power. How can you complain about deleted e-mails or squandered money - and then vote to keep that government afloat?
The longer she props up the scandal-plagued Wynne government, the less credibility she has. It’s unbelievable that Horwath would support yet another Liberal budget.
At one point, she actually talked about “heading into an election.”Īs the legislature returns Tuesday after its Christmas Break, all eyes will be on Wynne and Horwath. In her concession speech at the party for Liberal candidate Sandra Yeung Racco, Wynne also appeared to be rallying the troops. Well, if I had a political weathervane, I’d say she went from scorching hot and rarin’ to go to a frosty “not-so-fast” Ice Maiden - all within half a day. What I’m going to talk about are the priorities of Ontarians,” she said. “The other two leaders might talk about elections all the time and whether or not they want an election or they don’t. Which actually wasn’t the message she’d given the night before. “That’s the message from last night,” she said.
“We’re going to be focused not on election fever like the other two,” Horwath told a news conference Friday. She was back to the old Andrea - the let’s-make-a-deal leader, who’s once again prepared to wheel and deal and blackmail the Liberal government of Premier Kathleen Wynne in order to give support in the spring budget. It was a rallying cry that sent a message to the other two parties: We’re ready to fight an election.īarely 12 hours later, when the cheers in Niagara Falls had subsided and the cold light of a February day had dawned, Horwath returned to Queen’s Park in a far more subdued fashion. The party will cap CEO salaries in the public sector, declared a feisty Horwath, as she went on to enunciate a laundry list of other pledges - tax credits for companies that hire young people as well as vague promises to make life more “affordable” for the average family. There was Andrea Horwath, jubilant on Thursday night after the NDP win in the Niagara Falls byelection, clearly outlining the party’s election platform.
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