Liberals and NDP were too busy promising to spend other people\u0027s money and fighting the wrong election
Of the three leaders, Del Duca appeared to have particular difficulty adjusting to the changing circumstances he faced. He chose to run the same sort of campaign his two immediate predecessors as Liberal boss had run. It worked for them — Ontario’s Liberals enjoyed 15 unbroken years in power by treating elections like Christmas in the Bezos family: nothing was two expensive, nothing too extravagant to wrap up in a neat little bow and toss towards the electorate as a campaign promise.of wonders.
It would be nice to think so, but it’s probably not true. Voters can still be bought, if not with their own money , then with their grandchildren’s. So Maybe it’s the mix you have to get right: the right combination of freebies and the right leader doing the offering. Horwath and Del Duca spent much of their time determinedly beating up on the old Ford, while the new Ford ignored them and stuck to his script. They assailed his plan to build a new commuter highway and ridiculed his decision to stop charging motorists for renewing licence plate stickers. They rolled their eyes at his eagerness to remove toll charges on some roads.
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