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McGuinty Faces Leadership Review This Weekend

Posted By: Katie Franzios · 9/29/2012 3:26:00 AM

All eyes are on the Premier this weekend, as he faces his first leadership review since not only the provincial election last October but the recent byelections in Vaughan and Kitchener-Waterloo.

Dalton McGuinty has said to stay on as leader, just over 50 per cent support from the Liberals would suffice.

University of Toronto Political Science Associate Professor Nelson Wiseman says he doesn't think McGuinty will do as well as his opposition party counterparts, with the NDP's Andrea Horwath getting 76 per cent support from her party and Tory Tim Hudak getting almost 79 per cent.

However, he says because there aren't viable leadership candidates waiting in the wings, Liberal party members may back McGuinty with higher numbers than expected.

Nelson points out Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan has been trying to raise his profile lately, speaking at business leader engagements outside of the province. He says Duncan would likely make a bid to head the party if McGuinty steps down.

The Ontario Liberals are meeting in Ottawa this weekend, with the leadership voting taking place on Friday and Saturday.

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  1. gp posted on 09/28/2012 10:14 PM
    Ontarians would be God-blessed with second life if this "Mcguinty" quits on his own, rather than getting badly humiliated in the next election and tossed in the garbage bin.
    Who likes him??? Nobody other than “Toronto Star", who still tries to portray his potential, off course not as a "destroyer" but a "creator". The reverse is the reality. He whined the conservatives left the province 6.5 Billion in RED. Thanks to his astute financial management, in 8 yrs it ballooned to 15 billion. While the common Ontarians had been hit one after another, health tax, HST, Eco Tax and endless wastages , he doled away our dollars in millions(may be in Billion) to the Non-Ontarian entities, e.g. Samsung, TransCanada, Greenfield.
    He has no moral, no face to be a premier, and "HE MUST QUIT ON HIS OWN”.
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