Hudak moves quickly
OTTAWA — After his third-ballot victory on Saturday, the newly anointed leader of the provincial Progressive Conservative party is taking little time in preparing for his shift to power.
Tim Hudak, who is promising to steer the Conservatives back to the political right, will meet with interim party leader Bob Runciman on Monday to go over the transition process, according to a release. Hudak vowed throughout the campaign to focus on middle-class values as leader of the opposition, a title he hopes to change in the next provincial election in 2011.
Election readiness will be the focus of a strategic planning meeting scheduled for next month that Hudak asked party president Ken Zeise to convene, the release added.
Hudak also said he is seeking “meaningful” involvement from his three rivals in the leadership race — Frank Klees, Christine Elliott and Randy Hillier — and will meet with each in the coming days.
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Mac Says:
Decent article… better than I expected from the Citizen…
Posted on June 29th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
UV Says:
The liberals in my area are jumping for joy as on 640am John Oakley this morning Tim Hudak said that hes bringing back the Common Sense Revolution.
Summary:the common sense revolution was a good idea but poorly executed plan for political change.
As time went on the plan changed to the detriment of Ontario voters.
Ontario government decided to close hospitals even though the population was increasing and this dramatically increased emergency room wait times. They closed them near senior citizen areas and all they said is they just have to travel further for help.
Ontario government then decided to make bigger cities so they amalgamated six cities around Toronto, Hamilton and Ottawa and the cities affected did not want this change.
The voters of Ontario got so mad at the Conservative government that Mike Harris resigned before an election was called and left a respected PC politician Ernie Eves holding the bag.
Lets hope that there is not a repeat of this, or Hudak will join John Tory as a radio talk show host.
Posted on June 29th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Joanne (T.B.) Says:
<i>After his third-ballot victory on Saturday, the newly anointed leader of the provincial Progressive Conservative party is taking little time in preparing for his shift to power.</i>
Shouldn’t that be’ newly-elected’, not appointed?
They must have been thinking about Iggy.
Posted on June 29th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
UV Says:
Good catch & response Joanne.
Posted on June 29th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Sandy Says:
UV — While I respect you immensely, I have to acknowledge that you have a major blind spot about the Common Sense Revolution. You were personally affected. I understand that. But, sometimes change is necessary even when people don’t want it. That is leadership. As I wrote in my piece yesterday, you can’t reduce the size of government without reducing it and that means jobs.
McGuinty and company, you will note, hasn’t changed anything back to the way it was because the amalgamations needed to be done. Moreover, the McGuinty government is STILL closing hospitals. Just talk to the good folks in Fort Erie and Port Colborne. Yet, you don’t hear the same hue and cry you did when the Hospital Restructuring Commission was closing hospitals — NOT the Harris government.
Moreover, Harris did not leave Ernie Eves holding the bag. I belonged to the PC party. It was the party who wanted Harris to retire — a change they just didn’t broadcast publicly. But, they were wrong and I was wrong when I voted for Eves over Flaherty.
Why? Because Eves was not respected enough to win the next election. Whereas, I have no doubt Harris would have won a third majority.
So, lighten up my friend. Instead of complaining about the past, let’s all work towards the future.
Posted on June 30th, 2009 at 11:41 am