This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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Ontario’s New Democratic Party is all set to start its convention today, which will bring Andrea Horwath’s leadership automatically in question. Most prominently, Horwath’s recent decisions regarding party position and her bid to stay on as leader will come under review this weekend, along with the goals and plans for the next campaign platform.
Although, Horwath has public admitted to have “learned lessons” from the last Ontario election, there are several party members that want a change in strategy. Chair of the NDP’s socialist caucus, Barry Weisleder, commented that “it was a dreadful campaign and the leadership of Andrea Horwath and her braintrust had no mandate to veer to the right of the Liberal party to wage a campaign that was basically oriented towards Conservative voters and the business class.” Weisleder stated that “instead of advocating penny change on minor reductions in the HST on fuel charges and on auto charges, what we really needed was a new ambitious plan to deal with a lack of affordable housing, to deal with transportation, gridlock, to deal with increasing poverty and the growing gap between the rich and the rest of us.”
In addition to that, Weisleder alleged that “that of course also necessitated a turn towards a serious increase in progressive taxation. So it was the wrong campaign for the wrong time, and it was an election that was triggered a year late.” In order to stay on as leader, Horwath needs a confidence vote of at least 70 per cent and quite noticeably, last time, she only acquired just over 76 per cent approval vote.
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