Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne must make her daily decisions with her Ouija Board. You would think she could make decisions and stick to them but no such luck. She has now decided that it is no skin off her nose if Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown has a by-election in the middle of a federal election campaign. It seems to prove how little she really knows about real politics.
Wynne spoiled a perfectly good long summer weekend when she announced in Penetanguishene that she had recanted and would allow an immediate by-election in Simcoe North riding to let Patrick Brown run for a seat in the legislature. It was an arrogant amateur performance and convinced even more Ontario voters that she does not know what she is doing.
To be fair, she obviously does not know Patrick Brown the way people in Barrie know him. He seems to have Toronto handlers now who are working on getting the small town out a small-town boy. They have got him a Toronto haircut and the right stuff to slick it down. They have obviously burned his cheap suits and stuck a good-looking blonde at his elbow. Their only problem is that they have not had time to get his adenoids out. He is still a nerdy mouth breather.
But with a good-looking blonde at his elbow, maybe nobody will notice.
Mind you, Wynne’s epiphany on letting the little nerd have his by-election might have included her revelation on the Liberal opponent in the by-election. Whoever it is to be, he or she will have very little time to convince the voters that they are the second coming. The sympathy in this area will be to get rid of Brown and let him go to Queen’s Park. He did nothing in Ottawa for nine years. Why not let him go and do nothing at Queen’s Park?
Brown claims that he needs to be in the Ontario Legislature as soon as possible so that he can ask questions of Premier Wynne. Yes, he will ask questions; when someone writes them for him.
But his campaign will certainly screw up the plans of all party’s candidates in the federal ridings that now share pieces of the old riding of Simcoe North. Ontario has not redistributed their ridings to being the same as federal boundaries. Wynne does not worry about that. She hardly worries if the voters are confused. Ontario’s jogging granny also spends time confusing Liberals.
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Copyright 2015 © Peter Lowry
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