Unlikeable PC leader could be a ‘pathway to victory’ for Horwath’s Ontario NDP: Bricker

The New Democrats will have to make up ground during the campaign, when dust from the PC leadership contest has settled, say pollsters and NDP insiders.

Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath, pictured here during the federal branch of the party's policy convention in Ottawa, polls much better than rival and Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne, and PC leadership candidate Patrick Brown. She also polls much better than her own party.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

February 26, 2018

Forget about Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals. It’s the Ontario NDP that stands to gain if the public doesn't support the winner of the leadership brawl for the front-running Progressive Conservative party in Canada’s biggest provin...

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