Time to put those Sandals away and get your boots out! I was so confused on reading our MPP Liz Sandals’ comments about the results of the two recent byelections in Kitchener-Waterloo and Vaughan (Tribune, Sept. 11).
She makes assumption that the elections reflected poorly on the PC party and our leader.
In typical Sandals fashion, she forgot to mention the real reason why we had byelections in the first place. It was because her leader, Premier Dalton McGuinty, is one critical seat short of a majority government. Then, and now.
Sandals’ party baited longtime PC MPP Elizabeth Witmer to be chair of the WSIB, hoping and praying they could pick up that seat. In a surprise move, Greg Sorbara stepped down in Vaughan, because he knows the Liberal McGuinty ship is sinking and he thought he would save face.
Just watch between now and the next general election how many Liberal MPPs will not seek re-election after the debacle with teachers and the massive debt they have run up. Most are aware getting an office back at Queen’s Park is going to be nearly impossible. The Liberal Party of Ontario needed Kitchener-Waterloo in the worst way.
They are no further ahead than they were before they started. Sandals has to attack PC party leader Tim Hudak, because she knows he has the best chance to become premier in a general election.
So before Sandals starts pointing the finger at who did well, who won and who lost, we should all ask ourselves this: will she have the courage to stand for election and most likely be booted out of office in the next election by the people of Guelph?
Or will she pull a Greg Sorbara and leave quietly from her back-bench desk in the Ontario legislature?
Allan Boynton
Guelph