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RSS FeedsMPPs return to Queen´s Park - and radically altered political landscape
(The Star Books)

 
 

20 february 2018 12:18:52

 
MPPs return to Queen´s Park - and radically altered political landscape
(The Star Books)
 


What a difference 10 weeks can make.When MPPs rose for the winter break on Dec. 14, Patrick Brown was leader of the Progressive Conservatives.Brown’s election team and his carefully crafted People’s Guarantee campaign manifesto were intact; the Liberal re-election effort was being led by Patricia Sorbara; and the New Democrats’ campaign hopes lay with Michael Balagus.Fast-forward to Tuesday as parliamentarians return to Queen’s Park and all of that has changed.Read more: Half of Ontarians would vote for PCs in next election: poll Opinion | Thomas Walkom: Veer to the right in Ontario PC leadership race risks party’s election chancesPatrick Brown buoyed by supporters as he launches comeback bidBrown was forced out as leader early on Jan. 25 just hours after his senior aides resigned en masse after CTV News reported allegations of sexual impropriety involving teenage girls.Premier Kathleen Wynne has replaced Sorbara, one of her most trusted aides and a key architect of the Liberals’ 2014 election win, in a campaign shake-up.NDP Leader Andrea Horwath has placed Balagus, her chief of staff and campaign director, on a leave over accusations he did not take women’s complaints about a groping cabinet minister “seriously” while chief of staff to Manitoba premiers Gary Doer and Greg Selinger.All of this tumult has happened against the backdrop of a looming June 7 election.But no party is in more turmoil than the Conservatives.The Tories have been thrust into a March 10 leadership race where former MPP Christine Elliott, runner-up to Brown in the 2015 contest, ex-Toronto councillor Doug Ford, rookie PC candidate Caroline Mulroney, anti-sex-education activist Tanya Granic Allen, and, in a bizarre twist, Brown, himself, are vying for the crown.All except Brown oppose the carbon tax that bankrolled the big-ticket promises in the “People’s Guarantee,” including more funding for mental health, child-care br ...


 
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