Will there be any new pressure on any of the NDP members (or Conservative?) to take a cabinet post for defecting to the Liberals, now that Wynne has become the new Liberal Premier?
Premier McGuinty resigns
Sat, 2013-01-26 20:41
#202
Sat, 2013-01-26 20:46
#203
I think that Sandra's speech is what actually killed her chances after the 1st ballot - the line, to bring the opposition to their knees was just so out of line with this govts minority situation.
Wasn't it that kind of arrogance on McGuinty's part that was responsible for the Liberals falling to minority status in the first place?
Sat, 2013-01-26 21:21
#204
http://warrenkinsella.com/2013/01/its-going-to-be-tight/
Read the comments, they're funny.
Sandra's supporters seem convinced that this mean Hudak will be premier, ignoring Andrea's current lead and much greater personal popularity.
And the hate for Kennedy is funny, as if the other choice wasn't going to lead to the Liberal's defeat as well. The irony being Kennedy himself was the mostly likely to have kept the Liberals from a brutal defeat.
Sat, 2013-01-26 21:23
#205
Boom Boom
Kudos to Wynne for being the first woman premier of Ontario, and the first openly gay premier in Canada. Boos to Wynne for happily serving in McGuinty's rotten to the core government.
Sat, 2013-01-26 21:30
#206
Looks like 68 elected/ex-officio delegates didn't like the last two choices and didn't vote in the final round.
Sat, 2013-01-26 22:01
#207
Kudos to Wynne for being the first woman premier of Ontario, and the first openly gay premier in Canada.
It's exciting to have an openly gay premier! History! Let's hope she's better than McSquinty.
Sat, 2013-01-26 22:03
#208
Boom Boom
The only person I can see being worse than McGuilty is Tim Hudak.
Sat, 2013-01-26 22:08
#209
Boom Boom
Hopefully Hudak fades the f*ck away, and the next contest is between Kathleen Wynne and Andrea Horwath. I think Horwath will have no problem whatsoever in being more progressive than Wynne.
ETA: In her acceptance comments tonight, she heaped praise on McQuinty and pledged to build on his "successes". Question: did he have any?
Sat, 2013-01-26 22:13
#210
The Province has too many wingnuts for Hudak fade away completely and unlike Sandra, Wynne will have no appeal to Tories.
Andrea may be able to peal off some Tory Populist voters, but still a stand off between Andrea and Hudak is more likely at the end of the election, a stand off where Andrea will likely take a nice chunk out of the Liberals because nobody likes Tim Hudak, not even Tories.
Sat, 2013-01-26 22:18
#211
Boom Boom
This is what Wynne inherits (hell, she was a part of it):
Sat, 2013-01-26 23:48
#212
Some Liberals think she'll just make nice with the teachers and all will be forgiven, and that will be enough to sweep aside the NDP. It will not, there is too much built up rage and Wynne had a part in it and that fact will not be swept under the rug.
Tomorrow should be interesting once she has to deal with the Steel Town Scraper.
Sun, 2013-01-27 01:30
#213
ETA: In her acceptance comments tonight, she heaped praise on McQuinty and pledged to build on his "successes". Question: did he have any?
Other than being the most successful Liberal Premier of Ontario in modern history? He brought the Liberals back to power and won 3 elections in a row. No one had done that in over half a century.
Sun, 2013-01-27 02:00
#214
[url=http://ontariondp.com/en/ontario-ndp-leader-andrea-horwath-congratulates... Horwath comments on Wynne's victory[/url]
[url=http://www.ontariopc.com/news/statement-on-the-election-of-kathleen-wynn... Hudak on Wynne's victory[/url]
Sun, 2013-01-27 02:37
#215
autoworker
There is no good reason not to recall the Legislature by the end of next week. We'll see if Wynne shares McGuinty's contempt for Ontario.
Sun, 2013-01-27 04:57
#216
There is no good reason not to recall the Legislature by the end of next week. We'll see if Wynne shares McGuinty's contempt for Ontario.
Wynne set the date Feb 19 to recall the legislature. That's just over 3 weeks. Trade offices, draft a Throne Speech, select a cabinet, have a nice chat with Horwath and perhaps a not-so-nice chat with Hudak...
At least she hasn't come anywhere near Christy Clark's contempt for BC. Our legislature last sat at the end of May 2012. She cancelled the fall sitting, and isn't going to show up again until February, when an election is 3 months away. Compared to her, Ontario looks positively dutiful :P
Sun, 2013-01-27 05:10
#217
ETA: In her acceptance comments tonight, she heaped praise on McQuinty and pledged to build on his "successes". Question: did he have any?
Other than being the most successful Liberal Premier of Ontario in modern history? He brought the Liberals back to power and won 3 elections in a row. No one had done that in over half a century.
OK, he won three elections. As premier, he was just barely different than Mike Harris in terms of actual policy on the vast majority of the issues(especially the economic and social justice issues that really matter). So, beyond getting people to vote for his party, what, exactly, was he successful AT?
Sun, 2013-01-27 06:06
#218
autoworker
There is no good reason not to recall the Legislature by the end of next week. We'll see if Wynne shares McGuinty's contempt for Ontario.Wynne set the date Feb 19 to recall the legislature. That's just over 3 weeks. Trade offices, draft a Throne Speech, select a cabinet, have a nice chat with Horwath and perhaps a not-so-nice chat with Hudak...
At least she hasn't come anywhere near Christy Clark's contempt for BC. Our legislature last sat at the end of May 2012. She cancelled the fall sitting, and isn't going to show up again until February, when an election is 3 months away. Compared to her, Ontario looks positively dutiful :P
The LPO smells like fish.
Sun, 2013-01-27 08:13
#219
I think history will assess McGuinty as a premier with very meagre accomplishments. He won 3 elections by not beeing Mike Harris, yet did very little to repair the damage Harris did to this province.
When McGuinty won the leadership it was because the "Blue Liberals" rallied aroung him to prevent what they saw as a quasi New Democrat winning. McGuinty remained true to that faction in the party. His "accomplishments" were largely cosmetic things like renaming part of the 401 the "Highway of Heroes." It is hard to think of much else he did.
He also had such an ignominious end, proroguing the legislature to escape the gas planrt scandal and the chaos in the schools.
It's good to be rid of this cautious mediocrity.
Sun, 2013-01-27 08:34
#220
Boom Boom
ETA: In her acceptance comments tonight, she heaped praise on McQuinty and pledged to build on his "successes". Question: did he have any?
Other than being the most successful Liberal Premier of Ontario in modern history? He brought the Liberals back to power and won 3 elections in a row. No one had done that in over half a century.
So, he was Premier for three terms, and all he can brag about is being elected? What an asshole.
Sun, 2013-01-27 09:42
#221
ETA: In her acceptance comments tonight, she heaped praise on McQuinty and pledged to build on his "successes". Question: did he have any?
Other than being the most successful Liberal Premier of Ontario in modern history? He brought the Liberals back to power and won 3 elections in a row. No one had done that in over half a century.
So, he was Premier for three terms, and all he can brag about is being elected? What an asshole.
Yup. Every legacy program (except for winning elections) that he took on he bungled. We could call his style: "quiet incompetence" with a healthy dose of (sometimes arrogant) aloofness.
Sun, 2013-01-27 10:47
#222
The bungling of elections he left to his successor :p
I mean Dalton can't do it all himself after all, he's just one man :D
Mon, 2021-11-22 10:11
#223
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Sun, 2013-01-27 13:15
#224
I see Wynne as a real threat to the NDP. In the public mind she may represent a real break from the Mcguinty legacy. The Liberals obviously need to do that to remain viable.
Sun, 2013-01-27 13:30
#225
Boom Boom
On CTV's QP this morning, we were reminded that the Ontario Liberals are polling very low.
Sun, 2013-01-27 14:05
#226
Wynn polls poorly, it will take more then a pretense of,leftiness for Wynne to boost the,fortunes of the Liberal Party. She has to suffer the,consquences of the Dalton record to which,she was a party. Kennedy was out of provincial politics long enough that the stink didn't stick to him, while Wynne was an archtect of the anti teacher bill, voted for it and so on.
I'm so looking forward to next Ontario election. I hope Wynne makes a mistake and we have an election this spring. I want to see Premier Horwath asap.
Sun, 2013-01-27 14:35
#227
Boom Boom
I hope Wynne makes a mistake and we have an election this spring. I want to see Premier Horwath asap.
Horwath may be polling well right now, but Ontario remembers the NDP and Rae Days, and Ontario hates McGuinty - and presumably the Liberal party as a whole, opening an opportunity for Hudak to rise up between Wynne and Horwath. Some of the comments being tweeted last night during the convention suggest the reactionaries are gaining steam.
Sun, 2013-01-27 15:13
#228
I hope Wynne makes a mistake and we have an election this spring. I want to see Premier Horwath asap.Horwath may be polling well right now, but Ontario remembers the NDP and Rae Days, and Ontario hates McGuinty - and presumably the Liberal party as a whole, opening an opportunity for Hudak to rise up between Wynne and Horwath. Some of the comments being tweeted last night during the convention suggest the reactionaries are gaining steam.
Their liability is Hudak. Horwath is an asset to her party and Wynne is an unknown. On Question Period tofay craig oliver was skeptical of Wynne being able to distant herself from McGuinty.
Mon, 2021-11-22 10:11
#229
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Sun, 2013-01-27 16:16
#230
Wynne's already starting to blow it.
For all her talk of reconcillation she's already refused to tear up the contracts caused by that horrible bill, which means no peace with teachers and getting a deal with Andrea that much harder, and costilier, if its even possible now.
As for Hudak, he's a tool, Andrea's played him like a fiddle before and she'll do it again.
Maybe she already is. The Tories are already queing up attack ads attacking Wynne for her part in the Organ scandal, the teacher labour strife, Gas Plant Scandal, E-Health, and so on, much of which will help Andrea instead of Hudak. It will also reinforce Hudak's unlikablity so don't be surprised if Hudak's likablity numbers drop further.
Its like Hudak is Horwath's attack dog. If I didn't know better I'd say Hudak was an NDP plant whose job it was to sabotage the Tories :D
Victory is so close I can taste it!
Sun, 2013-01-27 16:29
#231
Ah the Rae Days - let's crawl back to 1990 - 1995 - only 22 to 17 years ago where many new voters have "no memory" of this, and besides Bob Rae is a big time liberal now. That said, Liberals have mismanaged finances so poorly that trying to bring out that "orange booegy" man will shine more of a negative light on them rather than the NDP.
Yeah playing the Bob Rae card at this point would be funny. It would create Federal/Provincial Divisions, would as you pointed out,highlight the Liberals current fiscal pickle, and and the NDP government is so far in the past as to be nothing, but echoes.
No the truth is the Liberal armoury for attacks,is pretty thin, empty really and there ripe for picking or manipulating depending on wheather Wynne folds.
Honestly I kind of wish the first woman and gay Premier in Ontario had been a New Democract instead of wasted on this undead Liberal Dynasty at the end of it tethor.
Sun, 2013-01-27 18:10
#232
Boom Boom
I occasionally hear references to "Rae Days" from some of those idiot panelists on 'Power and Politics'. They just won't let it die.
As for Wynne, since last night she's been praising the reign of King McQuinty. She was interviewed right after her win last night, and with reference to the teacher's and unuions, she said she will have an open door policy and will talk to them anytime. But then she went on to say that keeping a $12billion deficit is just not sustainable.
Sun, 2013-01-27 18:38
#233
Yeah Wynne is pretty screwed. She has nothing she can offer the NDP without raising taxes, which I doubt she'll agree too given the attitudude she's taking. If she does she'll enrage the blue grits and Hudak will have a field day.
She wants labour peace, but she won't dump the imposed contracts so good luck on that, given that that's a key demand.
If she cuts services and the like to appease Hudak she may as well declare Andrea the next Premier.
She's about to get slammed hard by attack ads from Hudak on issues she has no defence for.
Not to mention she'll have to choose wheather to give into opposition demands for investigations into various scandals or to look like she's hiding something.
What cards does she really have to play? A more friendly face won't cut it. Nor will Platitudes when the Province rots around her.
She's broke, surrounded by enemies on all sides, leading a party that's run out of steam, dealing with a public out of patience.
Sun, 2013-01-27 19:04
#234
Ah the Rae Days - let's crawl back to 1990 - 1995 - only 22 to 17 years ago where many new voters have "no memory" of this, and besides Bob Rae is a big time liberal now.
I've always thought that was a rather specious argument (that Rae is a Liberal, therefore you can't pin "Rae Days" on the NDP). Same with public auto insurance.
So are we to understand that Rae somehow singlehandedly made these decisions while every other person in the entire Ontario NDP opposed them?
Anyhow, it was a long time ago, as you say. But then again, I don't see the ONDP having moved to the left at all in the intervening years.
Sun, 2013-01-27 19:12
#235
Boom Boom
I think we should start a new thread since McGuinty is so passe'.
“We are calling on Premier Wynne to begin governing Ontario with the people of Ontario. Struggling families cannot continue to be the only ones making sacrifices during tough economic times while banks and corporations siphon billions of dollars from the public treasury due to a decade of corporate tax cuts,” said Ryan. “It is time for a fair and balanced approach to balancing the budget.”
“Ontarians need an industrial strategy that promotes job creation. We need labour law reform that protects workers’ rights to join a union and negotiate collectively with their employer. We need social program funding that pulls our hospitals, schools and universities out of last place. We need a poverty reduction plan that increases social assistance rates and provides a living wage for everyone. Most of all, we need fair taxation for banks and corporations and everyone earning over 250,000,” said Ryan. “The economy can’t recover unless everyone recovers.”
Sun, 2013-01-27 21:10
#236
Pundits mention 'Rae Days', but do they ever mention Grant Devine and the utterly corrupt Conservatives in Saskatchewan?
The media is anti-NDP, so don't bother wasting time and breath wondering why the NDP gets such poor coverage.
Mon, 2021-11-22 10:12
#237
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Mon, 2013-01-28 09:17
#238
Great post, Jan. Puts the Rae years into perspective.
Mon, 2013-01-28 11:39
#239
Boom Boom
Bob Rae was being interviewed on CBC, and said the federal Conservative attack team is already running ads against Wynne, even before she is sworn in. He said that's how the Cons operate: "attack, attack, attack".
ETA: it strikes me as odd that the federal Conservatives are attacking Wynne, especially as Harper on the weekend thanked McGuinty for implementing his so-called federal "Economic Action Plan" in Ontario - and Wynne was a part of McQuinty's government.
Mon, 2013-01-28 13:56
#240
http://warrenkinsella.com/2013/01/gomery-gauntlet-thrown-down/
Notice how the Liberals are villifying Andrea Horwath for wanting an inquiry into the cancelled Gas Plant deal. And notice how accountablity via the Gormery Comminision is protrayed as the evil victimization of the Liberals by the evil duo of Harper and Layton. As if Liberal corruption had nothing to do with it.
The whole throwing down the guantlet thing makes me laugh. Melodramatic. Liberals hate being held to account for corruption. Millions flushed down the toilet in the hopes of keeping a seat or two and we're supposed to believe its no big deal.
The Liberals are in shock, Wynne supposedly a left wing liberal, the NDP was supposed to just curl up and die, how dare they refused to do so :p
Mon, 2013-01-28 14:45
#241
Boom Boom
How is Wynne a left wing Liberal? I haven't seen one iota of evidence yet. Are people just making assunptions based on her gender and sexual orientation? If so, then that is just twisted.
Mon, 2013-01-28 15:07
#242
Compared to some of the supposed "Liberals" we've seen in recent years, she at least appears to be more of...a moderate, I suppose you could say. Not that that actually means a damn thing, natch. She didn't exactly distinguish herself when McGitty was declaring teachers to be Public Enemy # 1.
If anything, this situation reminds me of nothing so much as Kim Campbell left holding the bag when Brian "Scum-sucker" Mulroney didn't have the nerve to face the voters' wrath at the end of his reign. Of course, Mulroney then had the sheer, unmitigated gall to later claim the Tories would have coasted to yet another victory if only he had remained as PM! I wonder if McGuinty will pull the same stunt after the smoke has cleared from the next provincial election?
I think history will assess McGuinty as a premier with very meagre accomplishments. He won 3 elections by not beeing Mike Harris...
And I'm convinced the main factor in him winning the last one was that he wasn't Rob Ford. By then, a certain amount of buyers' remorse had begun to settle in about Ford, and people were waking up to the fact that, yes, we had an actual, factual far right nut in as the Mayor of Toronto. I'm certain that contributed to McGuinty's victory here in the city, at least.
Wynne seems like a nice enough woman, and it's a shame our first woman/lesbian Premiere has to be a representative from this Liberal Party. But if she bucks the rightwards drift of the Liberals, it'll be in word only.
Mon, 2021-11-22 10:13
#243
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Mon, 2021-11-22 10:13
#244
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Wed, 2013-01-30 05:22
#245
I find it funny how the Liberals think that just because they have a new leader, all thier troubles will drift away.
Not going to happen, the opposition parties won't allow it.
http://www.nationalpost.com/m/search/blog.html?b=fullcomment.nationalpos...
Wed, 2013-01-30 05:30
#246
And as for attacks, I'm thinking it's PC attack ads and not federal conservative attack ads.
Kathleen Wynne shrugs off Tory attack ads
Premier-designate Kathleen Wynne is shrugging off new Progressive Conservative radio attack ads now hitting the airwaves.
I find it funny that Wynne thinks the goal of the ads is to Bait her, when the goal of the ads is simply to link her irrevesibly to the Dalton legacy of shame.
I wonder if Wynne will give into Adreas demand for a public inquiry?
Wed, 2013-01-30 06:15
#247
autoworker
Wynne would be foolish to call an inquiry. We'll just have to wait for the auditor's report.
Wed, 2013-01-30 08:02
#248
Wynne needs a spring election. Barring that she has no mandate from the people.
Wed, 2013-01-30 15:45
#249
Wynne needs a spring election. Barring that she has no mandate from the people.
To be fair, by that logic Sask. NDP Premier Calvert had "no mandate" from 2001 to 2003.
Maybe this (Wynne and Horwath both talking welfare reform) makes a spring Ontario election less likely :
http://www.newstalk1010.com/News/localnews/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10497157
Wed, 2013-01-30 17:41
#250
Catchfire
Hi Socialist Feminist! Welcome to babble. I love your handle. When I lived in Scotland, the name of my football team was "Feminist Socialist FC."
Thu, 2013-01-31 02:59
#251
Where's Wynne going to get the money for this and transportation?
It'll be interesting to see if Wynne gives into NDP demands for tax increases. Who knows.
I do think that its a day late and a dollar short, if Dalton had resigned before the last election and Wynne had won, then yes the Liberals could have eaten the NDPs lunch.
All this will do is create the impression that the Liberals consider the NDP the greater electoral threat, which it is, but the fatigue with the Liberal Government has already set in to extreme levels.
I guess will see.