As Ontario Liberals look to rebuild after their devastating result in last week’s provincial election, former finance minister Greg Sorbara says it’s time to consider what he admits is a “pie-in-the-sky” idea: merging his party with the province’s NDP.
The Liberals won just eight seats in the provincial legislature in last Thursday’s vote, after a crushing defeat in the 2018 election that propelled them from a majority government to a party with only seven seats and without party status. “If I could wave a magic wand, and given that both opposition parties are without leaders, I would be advocating that – and this is rather controversial – that each of the parties dissolve themselves and enter into a merger that would create the Liberal Democratic Party of Ontario,” Mr. Sorbara said.
He said the NDP simply cannot join forces with the Ontario party that, before being defeated in 2018 under Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne, privatized the province’s Hydro One power utility and laid off nurses from hospitals. “The party has to pick a leader with snap, crackle and pop,” Mr. Reid said. “It’s just that simple. Someone that can absolutely animate Liberals, someone that can appeal beyond the voter base, someone that can grow the party, someone that’s got a touch of celebrity or celebrity-to-be to them.”
Ashley Csanady, a Liberal and a former staffer for Ms. Wynne, said careful consideration will be needed on how the party selects a new leader in an effort to encourage engagement from members across the province.
globeandmail Good idea, should be looked at all over the country as well.
globeandmail Well you can't go further left than both these parties have become
globeandmail Yes.
Logic would have to be used for that to happen
Blah blah blah
Because it's an abuse of democracy
Only political losers 'mull mergers'. Cope.
Putting a rat faced Politician as your leader was your mistake !!!
Unrealistic as they have different donor bases. The NDP is the labour/union/workers party. The Liberal Party is going to be more corporate friendly by nature.
Just implement proportional representation federally (like with the STV) and then Ontario may implement the same system to be consistent & there would be less vote-splitting & no false majority governments
We need Proportional Representation not more consolidated power.
Proportional representation is what’s needed. We need to end the use of FPTP
Given that the NDP were able to elect more MPPs the name should be the New Democratic Liberal party, not the Liberal Democratic Party as suggested.
Media should not be paid by American hedge funds say Canadians blinked by CanadianMediaFailed, again.
Or we could get rid of first past the post?
Look my naked photo ❤️😘
'New Liberals' already sounds old and tired.
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