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RSS FeedsLiberals fall further from official party status after Ford government raises the bar
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13 november 2018 22:38:07

 
Liberals fall further from official party status after Ford government raises the bar
(The Star Movies)
 


The decimated Liberals will be further away from official party status — and the taxpayer-funded caucus budget that comes with it — as Premier Doug Ford’s government raises the threshold.Thursday’s fall economic statement from Finance Minister Vic Fedeli will require political parties to have a minimum of 12 MPPs for official party status, up from eight, as first reported by CTV.The move comes as Interim Liberal Leader John Fraser, whose party under Kathleen Wynne was reduced to seven seats in the June election, has been pressing the Progressive Conservatives for official status based on the 19 per cent support Grit candidates received from 1.1 million voters.Read more: Liberal MPP Des Rosiers calls for changes to Juries Act to ensure more Indigenous participationLiberal MPP Nathalie Des Rosiers moves to limit government’s overriding of Charter rightsBut Government House Leader Todd Smith said the change to 12 seats is fair because the legislature increased to 124 seats for the June vote, an increase from 107 after new ridings were added.“It just seems to make sense at this time because there have been so many questions about it.”Critics charged the Conservatives are changing the rules in mid-game, given the June election was fought with eight seats as the bar, to prevent an opponent from gaining any advantages that could lead to a rebound in support. “Fiddling with the rules at this point is a slap in the face of democracy and shows, once again, that they are sore winners,” Green Leader and Guelph MPP Mike Schreiner said of Ford’s PCs, who have mocked the Liberals as the “minivan caucus.”Fraser said Ford is being “a bully” by changing the rules now instead of having them take effect for the next provincial election in 2022.“The government is saying ‘we’re going to move the goalposts.’” Just one seat shy of the eight-seat benchmark that has been in p ...


 
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