Horwath Disregards Party Rifts, Says Election Was Necessary

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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New Democratic Party leader, Andrea Horwath, has disregarded growing reports of rifts in her party ranks as good old fashioned democratic debate. Horwath repeated that her decision to reject Kathleen Wynne’s left-wing budget was compulsory because she had to “shut down corruption” in the Liberal government.

Addressing a rally in Windsor on Saturday, Horwath stated that “the great thing about our party is that it’s very democratic and people have the right to voice their opinions.” Only a day earlier, 34 party members accused her in a letter of abandoning her party’s socialist roots by voting down the budget. According to Horwath, Ms. Wynne’s spending plan would have created a new provincial pension plan and redirected a billion dollars into social programs, and in addition to that, she alleged that it had to go because of the Grits’ spending scandals, including the costly cancellations of two gas-fired power plants.

Horwath explained that “if there’s one straightforward, up-front job that progressives have, it’s to shut down corruption and get rid of the kind of behaviour that we’ve seen from the Liberal government.” Furthermore, she elaborated that “when I made the decision I made, it wasn’t an easy decision to make. But when I heard the feedback from Ontarians, I heard the disgust with the way that the scandals had been rolling out with the waste of their money.” Horwath has been facing criticism from grassroots party members for moths, who blame her for trading big picture policy for small ball populism.