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Gerard Kennedy may be Ontario Liberals’ best hope
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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy Oct 25, 2012 08:47pm |
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| Category | Opinion |
| Author | Bob Hepburn |
| News Date | Wednesday, October 17, 2012 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Tim Hudak and Andrea Horwath surely must rub their hands in glee as they look across the aisle at Queen’s Park and eye the Liberal cabinet ministers being touted as possible replacements for Dalton McGuinty as party leader.
The reason the Conservative and NDP leaders are so happy is because they feel they could easily beat the Liberals if a current McGuinty minister leads the party into the next election.
It’s easy to understand their thinking.
Even before the election, the pair will hammer the Liberals as an ineffective government burdened by a bitter wage-freeze fight with teacher unions and by scandals ranging from eHealth to ORNGE air ambulance and the costly political decision to cancel two power stations in Mississauga and Oakville.
And if the next Liberal leader is a current minister, Hudak and Horwath will smear them as being part of the team responsible for the mess the government is now in.
That applies equally to cabinet ministers Dwight Duncan, Deb Matthews, Kathleen Wynne, Chris Bentley, Laurel Broten, Glen Murray and Eric Hoskins.
All are possible candidates. All would be easy targets, even if they weren’t directly involved in the scandals.
That’s why the Liberals might be smart to take a serious look outside the cabinet for a new leader, one who isn’t tainted by the current scandals.
It could be a wise move because although the Liberals are trailing in the polls, there’s the possibility that having chosen the right leader the Liberals could come up the middle and squeak out a win in the next election. |
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