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RSS FeedsOntario PC turmoil is `bad for all of us,´ Liberals and NDP say
(The Star Canada)

 
 

24 february 2018 02:47:03

 
Ontario PC turmoil is `bad for all of us,´ Liberals and NDP say
(The Star Canada)
 


The controversy roiling the Progressive Conservatives is not a source of joy for the Liberals or New Democrats — even with the June 7 election fast approaching.“This is bad for all of us,” a high-ranking Liberal insider confided this week of the PC saga transfixing the province since former leader Patrick Brown was forced to resign Jan. 25 amid allegations of sexual impropriety.“If General Motors’ marketing plan was ‘Fords crash and will kill you,’ that’s bad for the entire car industry. Well, this is bad for politics.”NDP Leader Andrea Horwath agreed Friday that “people are feeling pretty cynical about politics in Ontario right now.”“They have a deep sense of disappointment. The (Progressive) Conservative party is in no shape to govern itself, let alone our great province,” said Horwath, mindful that the current climate presents an opportunity for the New Democrats.The trouble is that the Brown soap opera — widening to include questions about his personal finances and suspect membership numbers — is hogging so much media attention that it’s hard for other parties and PC leadership candidates to get their messages out.“This certainly isn’t the time to be distracted by one person’s problems,” leadership candidate Caroline Mulroney said Friday, urging Brown to drop out of the March 10 race for his old job after being kicked out of the party caucus at Queen’s Park.Liberal MPP Deb Matthews, co-chair of Premier Kathleen Wynne’s re-election campaign, said she finds “the whole thing very troubling.”“I don’t think anybody is enjoying this. It’s not good for democracy when we’ve got this kind of activity going on in a party that had a proud history in this province. That’s disappointing for us all,” said Matthews.PCs privately fear they could, once again, snatch defeat from the jaws of victory ...


 
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