By Pepper Parr
December 2nd, 2023
BURLINGTON, ON
Bonnie Crombie takes the Liberal Leadership on the third ballot.
First ballot votes
Third ballot votes -with more than 50% Crombie became the leader.
Crombie gave a barn burner of a speech – making it very clear what she was setting out to get done. Nate Erskine-Smith and Yasir Naqiv were both federal members and will continue their work in Ottawa. Ted Shu will end up with something in whatever Cabinet Crombie forms should she defeat Doug Ford.
No surprise. So, lets see if Ms. Crombie sticks to bringing the Liberal Party of Ontario back to the Centre. If so, welcome back. The Federal version of the party is currently to the the left of the NDP and is being propped up by Jagmeet Singh and the NDP. Ontario seldom votes to have the same party in power.
Bonnie Crombie has nice hair, great teeth, a bubbly and chirpy personality, and a lovely family. The only thing missing from yesterday’s photo op at the convention was the Golden Retriever, but I guess he’s back at the family compound guarding the slippers.
Sad truth though is that Bonnie Crombie is the mayor of the third largest city in Ontario which is also the home to some of the most bizarre, grotesque and obscene developments in the GTA. Crombie is essentially nothing more than a water carrier for developers, and for an electorate increasingly weary of Doug Ford’s intensification agenda and desecration of greenbelt lands she carries no credibility. She inherits a weak caucus and a Party with no money.
That leaves us with the NDP who have a strong and effective leader in Marjit Stiles, but who is saddled with the continually embarrassing Hamas-loving, anti-Semitic union rabble in her caucus, and New Blue who actually have an effective leader, but very limited prospects of getting elected, and who is eerily silent on the issue of land intensification and greenbelt protection.
I’m beginning to understand why the voters in Kitchener Centre elected a Green MPP. Mike Schreiner is starting to look better every day
Hmmm, I have never thought about Doug Ford’s teeth and hair…..I didn’t really think they were important. Will the nice hair and great teeth make a difference to Bonnie Crombie’s abilities?
I have no doubt that Bonnie Crosbie will mount a significant challenge to Doug Ford’s reign, if not depose him. Fair enough! I just hope that she doesn’t revive the Liberal brand for her disastrous federal counterpart in the 905/416. Justin Trudeau is the worst Canadian Prime Minister in recent memory (i.e. all talk & no delivery, other than in writing massive cheques on our grandchildren’s accounts), and must be shown the door in 2025, or mercifully earlier.
Mr Ford should be very afraid.