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Hampton's penchant for hydro issues boosts party in advance of election
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| Last Edited | User 13 Sep 02, 2003 02:18pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, September 2, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In some ways, NDP Leader Howard Hampton is a study in contrasts: an Ivy League scholar who has attended no less than nine universities but comes from small-town, working-class roots.
An avid hockey player who still hits the ice a couple of times a week, Hampton recently found time to pen a book on his favourite topic: the merits of public power.
It's a topic the New Democrats have seized on, relentlessly attacking the Conservative government's decision to deregulate the electricity market and blaming the Tories' energy policies for the massive blackout that recently left much of Ontario in the dark.
Those efforts have given the NDP a distinct bump in the polls and boosted Hampton's profile, but it's not clear whether the party's far-left platform can connect with voters.
"Everybody I talk to who knows him or who has met him through me says 'if only he was leading a different party; he would be the premier for sure,' " says Chuck Higgins, Hampton's roommate from his days at the University of Ottawa law school.
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