Horwath Makes Impressive Speech Prior to Leadership Vote

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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New Democratic Party leader under question for her leadership, Andrea Horwath, made an impressive half-hour speech on Saturday morning, explaining why she should stay on as leader. Delegates are anticipated to vote on her leadership later in the day, in accordance to party rules after a losing election.

Horwath’s speech seemed more like a campaign speech rather than one seeking support for the leadership vote. Horwath alleged that “we are the only functioning opposition party in Queens’ Park,” adding that “we play a critically important role there, speaking up for the values and goals that I have just been talking about, fighting the agenda that Tim Hudak promised in the last campaign and the Liberals are implementing and keeping this government accountable.” She acknowledged that the party needs to at least double the 1.1 million votes acquired in the last election in order to form government.

Horwath received sheer criticism from the left wing of her party for swaying the party away from its traditional social justice roots and making the election platform about pocketbook issues. She mentioned that “we owe the generations to come a socially and economically much more equal society,” adding that “people who have treated themselves and their friends to a 20-year fiscal drunken orgy financed by debt and service cuts to pay for billions of dollars in tax cuts for people, who need them the least, have no business lecturing us about the budget.”