Kathleen Wynne’s budget: ‘it’s free, so vote for me’

Hopefully the small bump in the polls the Ontario Liberals received after tabling their budget isn’t a sign of the electorate’s collective amnesia.

Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath, left, must feel like she got mugged by Ontario Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne, right, writes Tim Powers, as both work to fend off PC leader Doug Ford, middle, ahead of June’s election. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade, Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

April 4, 2018

OTTAWA—Living in Ontario these days, it is hard not to feel the desperation of the governing provincial Liberals. Having been around politics for a long time, I have seen some pretty shameless pandering done in the interest of getting re-elected by all political parties, but the Ontario Liberals m...

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