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Wednesday May 16, 2018

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Wednesday May 16, 2018

Ontario election: NDP overtakes Liberals as the ‘Anti-Ford’ party, according to Ipsos poll

NDP’s Andrea Horwath is jumping ahead of Kathleen Wynne and the Liberals one week into the 2018 Ontario Election.

According to an Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News, the NDP is gaining ground with 35 per cent of respondents saying they would vote for Horwath’s party – that’s up six points from last week’s polling. The Liberals would only garner 22 per cent, down four per cent from last week.

But Doug Ford and the Progressive Conservatives are still ahead, with 40 per cent of respondents saying they would vote PC if an election were held tomorrow. That number is unchanged from last week.

Only three per cent say they would vote for other parties (including the Green Party).

“Normally you would expect the NDP not to be a factor in that the fight would be between the Liberals and the Conservatives,” pollster Darrel Bricker, CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs, explained. (Source: Global News) 

 

Wednesday October 2, 2004

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Wednesday October 2, 2004

McGuinty’s Taxing First Year

A year ago Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty solemnly pledged to Ontarians in prime-time TV election ads that he would make Ontario a better place without raising taxes.

A year later, Ontarians who voted for the “choose change” motto and believed the party would follow through on its election commitments face a harsh and opposite reality.

Instead, over the next four years Ontarians will be paying $9 billion more in taxes thanks to a hefty health premium that now-Premier McGuinty continues to insist he had to implement because a huge deficit left him with no choice.

“You bet that put a crimp in our plans,” McGuinty said, still blaming the derailing of the rookie government’s plans on the multibillion-dollar deficit left behind by the previous Conservative government.

“We made a very difficult decision, not a popular decision,” McGuinty acknowledged in an interview as the Liberal government arrives at the first anniversary of its election today.

“It wasn’t the kind of thing designed to boost our political popularity,” he said with a smile of resignation after facing months of relentless criticism for breaking his marquee election promise. “It was designed to get more money so we could invest and improve the quality of our health-care system for Ontarians,” he explained.

“I’m proud to report we’re making some real, measurable progress.” (CP)