Liberals from across the province are gathering in Hamilton to vote on proposed changes to their process of picking a new leader and restart the rebuild of a party with just eight seats
The joke at Queen’s Park has long been that Ontario’s Liberals, with just eight MPPs, could hold their caucus meetings in a minivan.
The stakes are high. Many Ontario Grits acknowledge that they simply cannot afford another leader who produces an electoral disaster. The catastrophic loss after the province soured on Ms. Wynne five years ago revealed a party in shambles, with a large number of riding associations essentially defunct. The pandemic then hampered efforts to rebuild under Mr. Del Duca.
They note that even though they won just eight seats, the Liberals earned slightly more votes overall, at 1.117 million, than the NDP last June. And they see an opening with Mr. Ford’s PCs on the defensive over their move to open up parts of the Liberal-created protected Greenbelt area to developers.
And Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie, a former Liberal MP, is being wooed to run by some in the party and is attending this weekend’s AGM, where she will hold court in a hotel hospitality suite. She said this week that calls for her to run are “flattering” but that she is “solely focused on the priorities of Mississauga.”
But many in the party’s old guard want to preserve the existing system. They successfully killed the idea before the last leadership race. In 2019, a similar reform earned 57 per cent of the vote but still died, as such measures need two-thirds to pass. Voting results on the issue this time are expected on Saturday evening.
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