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Thursday, January 24, 2013

Haroon Siddiqui: Nightmare scenario for Sandra Pupatello (in The Toronto Star)

"The first priority for the new premier should be to recall the legislature and try to make it work.

"Kathleen Wynne is best positioned to do so. She has a seat, unlike Pupatello, who has to engineer a byelection and win it.

"Finance Minister Dwight Duncan is ready to resign his Windsor seat for her. But there is no guarantee that this cynical political ploy by the party establishment would not engender voter backlash.

"The nightmare scenario for the Liberals would be that they would have sacrificed their ace finance minister for a leader who failed to win a seat."

Full article: Siddiqui: Nightmare scenario for Sandra Pupatello.