By Pepper Parr
BURLINGTON, ON March 9, 2011 – There’s that pretty face again – Brian Heagle, but this time he’s not with his trusty old Liberal buddies, instead he’s with Chris Cottingham, President of the Progressive Conservative Youth Group – and they aren’t’ out on a tag sale. Rene Papin is in the picture to give it authenticity. Just standing there looking all friendly like.
What would have normally been a solid red Liberal background looks as if it is becoming Tory Blue. Talk about changing colours.
Brian Heagle with his new friends. PC Youth President Chris Cottingham and long time Tory Rene Papin.
But, if Heagle can get the Progressive Conservative nomination that is up for grabs now that Joyce Savoline has opted for the gold watch, and then win the election October 6th – well you never know. Thus guy has the potential to make Cabinet once he’s warmed a back bench for a bit – but I don’t see him being all that comfortable sitting at the table with PC leader Tim Hudak. Retiring MPP Joyce Savoline wasn’t all that comfortable with Hudak.
But Burlington is Tory country and the natives may not yet had enough of that Tory Blue.
The picture is coming into focus. Brian Heagle with his really decent guy looks want to be what Bill Davis was to the Tory’s. Bit of a stretch? Perhaps.
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ONE OF Hudak’s four-point plans:
“Hudak also promised he would take the idea of a mid-peninsula highway off the shelf where the Liberals have parked it. The highway was conceived as running from Fort Erie to Burlington, south of Hamilton airport. The government now says it won’t be needed until sometime after 2031”
The maybe-designated driver (Heagle) is definitely going to be swimming against the current on that one. When we were looking around Burlington for a place to settle, that was the one issue everybody, north and south were prepared to talk most about.