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Senior Member
I get a feeling that Wynne backed herself into a corner. I'm really confused by this far left (for big L Liberals) tax-and-spend budget. It's either:
1) Wynne threw a budget Hail Mary in order to get Horvath's and the NDP's support, even though they didn't express interest in supporting them this year.
or
2) Wynne is trying to squeeze out the NDP and take their votes in the inevitable next election by moving much further left into NDP territory. Since the Liberals are so far left now, the NDP becomes superfluous.
I'm thinking the latter, because it was already reasonably clear that Horvath wanted to trigger an election, and Wynne has just announced that they're going reintroduce that budget.
However, the reason I think she's backed herself into a corner is because it seems people are quite taken aback by this budget. The latest polls have PCs now in the lead. Yes, the Liberals have taken some shine off the NDP, but the PCs are the real winners in this Wynne budget fiasco.
Personally I think a smarter move would have been just to move a little bit left to catch those on the right edge of the NDP, while keeping enough of the centre-right voters to win again. Now, it seems that they've moved so far left that a good chunk of the centre-right will move to the PCs instead just to get Wynne out of power.
To put it another way, I think the PCs are sitting pretty, not because of Hudak (whom I don't like), but because of Wynne.
1) Wynne threw a budget Hail Mary in order to get Horvath's and the NDP's support, even though they didn't express interest in supporting them this year.
or
2) Wynne is trying to squeeze out the NDP and take their votes in the inevitable next election by moving much further left into NDP territory. Since the Liberals are so far left now, the NDP becomes superfluous.
I'm thinking the latter, because it was already reasonably clear that Horvath wanted to trigger an election, and Wynne has just announced that they're going reintroduce that budget.
However, the reason I think she's backed herself into a corner is because it seems people are quite taken aback by this budget. The latest polls have PCs now in the lead. Yes, the Liberals have taken some shine off the NDP, but the PCs are the real winners in this Wynne budget fiasco.
Personally I think a smarter move would have been just to move a little bit left to catch those on the right edge of the NDP, while keeping enough of the centre-right voters to win again. Now, it seems that they've moved so far left that a good chunk of the centre-right will move to the PCs instead just to get Wynne out of power.
To put it another way, I think the PCs are sitting pretty, not because of Hudak (whom I don't like), but because of Wynne.