We were starting to think of our naughty or nice list for the holiday and realized that we had written nothing about Andrea Horwath for many months. We are talking about the leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party. She has simply been missing from the news.
How do you decide if she is naughty or nice if she only communicates with her followers on Facebook and Twitter? Seriously, this is a breach of the politician’s oath! And if you ask Siri “Where’s Andrea?” the stupid voice will ask you “Andrea what?”
What did the Ontario NDP do? Did they take a page from the federal party’s book and fire their leader? And then forget to tell anyone? When is the leadership convention? Is anyone interested in running? Are things so bad that Andrea will have to run to succeed herself because nobody else wants the job? That looks like the situation with their federal friends. Tom Mulcair might just have to run to succeed himself.
Was this not supposed to be the time when everybody was to study the LEAP Manifesto? This document written by some Toronto intelligentsia was supposed to save the New Democratic Party? Is it forgotten? Was it overtaken by Justin Trudeau’s Sunny Days? Sunny days are so much easier to understand than some intellectual old manifesto.
Funny thing is that quite a bit of Trudeau’s Sunny Days is almost lifted from the LEAP Manifesto. The only clinker is that the NDP Leader in Alberta and Justin Trudeau went off script supporting a couple pipelines to get Alberta tar sands to the oceans so that Albertans can pay their carbon taxes.
And what are the Ontario New Democrats going to do about Kathleen Wynne’s Cap and Trade taxes and Justin Trudeau’s carbon taxes? Does Andrea even understand the difference and did you hear anything of interest from Andrea Horwath in the Legislature about that? And all we hear from is that putz Brown, Leader of the Ontario PCs, making hay with the voters while Andrea seems to be sitting on her hands.
All we are trying to say is that Andrea and the NDP seem to be keeping a low profile. While Premier Wynne is leading her Liberals lemming-like to the sea and Brown is trying to convince the voters that he is the Second Coming, Andrea Horwath does not even seem in the game. What is going on here?
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