Canada’s political parties need to rediscover the missing middle ground
Bonnie Crombie, mayor of the Toronto suburb of Mississauga, announced last week that she was considering a run at the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party. She added that, if she did run, she would do so on a platform of moving the partyIn Newfoundland, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, the old Liberal, Progressive Conservative and NDP dynamic continues to hold, generally speaking. In PEI, the Greens have replaced the NDP but are competitive.
It became so nakedly obvious what Ms. Wynne was up to that in 2017 this space ran an editorial headlined, “.” Policies like expanded rent controls, a sharp and rapid jump in the minimum wage and the promise of pharmacare for people under 25 were last-ditch attempts by a premier with a 12-per-cent approval rating to salvage a few seats for her doomed party.
Ms. Crombie hasn’t provided specific details about how she would shift the Ontario Liberals to the centre, other than to say she hopes to attract “Red Tories and Blue Liberals back to the party.” And she hasn’t officially entered the Liberal leadership race.
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