Wynne Liberals set to be wiped out in election

[Gone_Fishin]

Ontario PCs poised to win 'super-majority': Forum poll


SHAWN JEFFORDS, POLITICAL BUREAU CHIEF
Feb 25, 2017
Last Updated: 6:51 PM ET

TORONTO - Kathleen Wynne and Ontario’s Liberals could be on the verge of electoral disaster in 2018, according to a new poll.

The Forum Research survey, provided exclusively to the Toronto Sun, shows that if an election were held today, the Patrick Brown-led Progressive Conservatives would be poised to win a “super-majority” with 84 of 122 seats in Ontario’s newly expanded legislature. Andrea Horwath and the New Democrats would form the Official Opposition with 27 seats.

The Wynne-Liberals would be the rump of the house, relegated to third-party status with 11 seats.

Forum Research President Lorne Bozinoff said that with the vote 16 months away, there is still a lot of time for the mood of the electorate to swing. But it’s hard to say what the Liberals could do to change voter’s minds, he said.

“It does show the Liberals really have their work cut out for them,” Bozinoff said. “They’re skating on thin ice right now. They’re down to their base in, not even in the GTA, but in the 416.”

The poll shows the Tories have 44% popular support, the NDP have 25%, the Liberals 24% and the Green Party has 6%. But when those numbers are applied on a riding-by-riding basis, it paints a stark picture, he said.

“The Liberals are about to lose 40% of their previous vote,” he said. “That’s a big chunk.”

When the poll is broken down regionally, the Tories lead in all parts of the province except the GTA where they are statistically tied with the Liberals and in Northern Ontario where the NDP hold a six-point lead.

The poll also shows that Premier Wynne’s personal approval rating has sunk to a new all-time low – 11%. In all, 77% of respondents said they disapproved of the job she is doing as premier, with 12% saying they didn’t know. Even amongst Liberal supporters Wynne is a polarizing figure, with 42% approving of her leadership and 40% disapproving.

“This hydro rates thing is killing the Liberals,” Bozinoff said. “I don’t know if they have a solution for it. It’s a major, major drag on their popularity.”

“They need a major reset or reboot to turn this around. It’s not an incremental thing,” he added.


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[The Green Barbarian]

Let's hope that the PC's in Ontario don't pull a Dix on this one and get clobbered on Election day due to doing something stupid. The Liberals in Ontario are one of the most corrupt governments Canada has seen since the days of Chretien in Ottawa, and they deserve to be turfed out, but by a government that actually has ideas and a platform. Just saying "vote for us because those guys are bad" is a lazy strategy, that just doesn't work. Too bad the NDP in BC never figure that out.

[Rwede]

How much taxpayers' money will Trudeau spend trying to keep his BFF Wynne in power?

Recall that he went and campaigned in by-elections for her, on our dime?

I expect he will blitz Ontario with time and huge gobs of money, trying to set Wynne up as responsible for bringing in the dough, and we'll be just that much further in debt.

Billions? Oh yes, very many billions.

The Liberal name is badly tarnished in Ontario because of Wynne, and it sure shows in this poll. Trudeau will spend whatever he can to try and dazzle voters into forgetting just how vile, corrupt, and incompetent the Wynne government is.

[Jx3]

The Wynne-Liberals would be the rump of the house, relegated to third-party status with 11 seats.

What I found truly astounding in that article is that there are still 11 ridings that would vote for Wynne!! Unbelievable!!

[The Green Barbarian]

What I found truly astounding in that article is that there are still 11 ridings that would vote for Wynne!! Unbelievable!!

Kind of like the riding in Vancouver that keeps electing Jenny Kwanumist, no matter if it's a provincial or federal pension that she is angling to suck down. Unbelievable! And don't get me started on the mass of boneheads who keep re-electing Elizabeth May in Victoria. Just the dumbest people.

[Merry]

The size of folks Hydro bills is definitely what's killing the Ontario Liberals. And, in fairness to Wynne, it was Dalton McGinty who was the one most responsible for the current debacle. But regardless, the issue will probably put the Party out of office for many years to come.

Maybe there's a lesson here for the other Canadian Governments (both Federal and Provincial), that you can only take the "Green Energy" thing so far before people start to rebel.

Everybody wants to be as environmentally responsible as possible, but not to the point that they can no longer afford to support their families. There has to be some sort of "balance" to make the "green energy" idea sustainable, otherwise there could be a backlash that will set the environmental agenda back by years (look at what's happening in the U.S.).

[rustled]

"Agenda" being the key word.

We'd dealt with the worst of pollution and created the recycling program monster, so now concern for the environment is merely a useful political thing, a "popular cause" complete with mindless lip service and policies to match, and no genuine willingness to deal with the remaining issues.

It's all about the "agenda" now, and it's becoming clear the real agenda is, as usual, money.

Small surprise it's beginning to blow up in their faces.