As she takes on the leadership, Stiles has a chance to become Ontario’s next premier — but only if she can widen the appeal of a party that lost ground in the last election.
From a small family farm on the East Coast where goats ran around the living room to a fashionable house in the Annex, incoming NDP leader Marit Stiles has lived in very different worlds.“I learned about hard work and responsibility — everyone plays a role and has a responsibility no matter how small you are,” she told the Star. “And you can’t live in Newfoundland without knowing both the power and fragility of nature.
“In the same spirit of collaboration, we sincerely hope that Ms. Stiles puts aside her blind ideology and turns the page on her long history of saying ‘no’ to work with us as we continue to build Ontario.” “My parents were very worried about the baby goats being too cold in the barn with their mother, which they then realized was absolutely ridiculous,” she said, laughing. “We literally had goats in the house for a few nights.”
Her parents had turned to family friends to help them name their first-born in 1969, after they were stumped on girls’ names. “In those days, we didn’t have cheap long distance calls or emails or FaceTime or anything like that,” said Stiles, “so I was very much on the other side of the world for my family for many years,” with her parents only returning in 2010.
“It was pretty clear that we had a shared interest in politics and progressive activism so in a way, the party brought us together 35 years ago,” he said. “We’ve remained loyal to the NDP, and to each other, ever since.” She also served as president of the federal NDP, taking over just as Thomas Mulcair was turfed as leader.
“She’s a natural — you get the thrill of her right away. People have a phenomenally positive reaction to her. She’s smart, she’s positive, she has a great sense of humour.”
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