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RSS FeedsChantal Hébert: Liberal collapse in Ontario gives rise to an unsettling feeling in Trudeau´s Ottawa
(The Star Television)

 
 

26 may 2018 02:33:24

 
Chantal Hébert: Liberal collapse in Ontario gives rise to an unsettling feeling in Trudeau´s Ottawa
(The Star Television)
 


Reason suggests Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland does not seriously think Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals are headed for a “triumph†on June 7. Justin Trudeau’s go-to minister on the Canada/U.S. file predicted a big Liberal election victory at a GTA rally on Thursday. But if Freeland really does believe that, she may have had her hands too full on the foreign policy front to give her rose-coloured glasses a cleansing.With less than two weeks to go, the polls all suggest the Ontario Liberals will be lucky to avoid a rout of historic proportions.By the same token, the prime minister who set aside time in his schedule to vote at the Ottawa-Vanier returning office on Friday certainly knows a show of support via a photo opportunity is unlikely to trigger a game-changer of the magnitude Wynne’s Liberals need to reverse the tide.On a strictly rational basis, there is no reason why Trudeau’s Liberals would not be content with the election of an NDP government in Ontario next month. From their governing perspective, that would be immensely preferable to a Tory victory. If he becomes premier, Doug Ford has signalled his intention to go to war with the federal government over its national carbon-pricing strategy. Losing Ontario’s support in that endeavour could tilt the provincial balance toward failure.Trudeau is also more likely to get buy-in from an Ontario NDP government for the national pharmacare program some Liberal strategists see as a centrepiece of the 2019 Liberal platform. And the two at least share a common belief that governments have an active role to play on the social policy front.Horwath was a keynote speaker at the February NDP national convention. Given the partisan venue and the location of the gathering, just a few blocks from Parliament Hill, her speech was remarkably free of frontal attacks on the federal government.As events have since demonstrated, that made strategic sense. If the Ontario NDP leader d ...


 
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