Opposition Criticize Wynne’s Bid for Horse-Industry as Too Little Too Late

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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The Progressive Conservatives and New Democrats have openly opposed Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s recent $400 million bid to save the province’s failing horse-racing industry. Both have alleged, along with NDP, that the industry was largely devastated by previous Liberal policies.

Tory Leader, Tim Hudak, dismissed the announcement made on Friday as too little too late. He stated that “they have displaced tens of thousands of Ontario men and women, tossed them out of work with horse-racing decisions they have made.” Hudak explained to reporters gathered at Queen’s Park that “now, two years later, they’re coming back with some temporary funding as a stop-gap measure,” he said, noting the Liberals have sounded “the final death knell for the Fort Erie” track in his riding. On the same lines, PC House leader, Jim Wilson, alleged that “you literally go along the highways and back roads and you see horse equipment, horse trailers, buggies, everything up for sale in the ditches. A lot of the farms have gone bankrupt and so thousands of people have been thrown out.” He stated that “it’s criminal what they did.”

Adding to the same prospective, NDP MPP, Taras Natyshak, alleged that along with Fort Erie, tracks in Ajax, Belleville, Dresden, Leamington, Ottawa, Peterborough, Sarnia, Sudbury, and Woodstock are also encountering an uncertain future. Natyshak stated that “Kathleen Wynne seems to think she should get credit for acting — but she’s a day late and a dollar short. That horse won’t race,” adding that “some of these tracks have over a hundred years of history and the Liberals are destroying a way of life.”