ANALYSIS: Sudbury byelection trial & the unravelling of the promise of Kathleen Wynne
Wynne and the Liberals are likely to be found guilty in the more important courtroom. The court of public opinion.
ANALYSIS: Sudbury byelection trial and the unravelling of the promise of Kathleen Wynne
“I thought it was the decent thing to do.”
On the stand in Sudbury, Ont., Premier Kathleen Wynne told the court it was noble intentions that set in motion events that have resulted in charges of bribery against two Liberals – one from her inner circle. Similar good intentions, she told the media outside the courthouse after testifying, had brought her to the Big Nickel to set the record straight.
Those good intentions, and what voters think of them, are really what’s being judged here. The actual trial underway in the small Sudbury courtroom is about the narrow interpretation of the loosely worded Ontario Elections Act, the kind of thing that is so dull the Crown couldn’t even muster an attorney willing to stick the entire thing out. Vern Brewer, so mild and meek in speech that he’s continually asked to repeat himself, will retire before the case is complete.
But what is at stake in Sudbury has little to do with charges from a never before tested statute, and everything to do with the kind of leader Wynne promised she would be.
Defying the odds by skillfully dropping the heavy baggage of the McGuinty years, Wynne campaigned in 2014 on a promise of doing things differently. Dynamic leadership from Wynne combined with PC missteps put the Liberals back into majority, capturing seats that had eluded them for decades, with one standout failure. The long held Liberal bastion of Sudbury had gone orange.
The rest here.
https://globalnews.ca/news/3756503/kathleen-wynne-sudbury-byelection-trial-analysis/
Wynne and the Liberals are likely to be found guilty in the more important courtroom. The court of public opinion.
ANALYSIS: Sudbury byelection trial and the unravelling of the promise of Kathleen Wynne
“I thought it was the decent thing to do.”
On the stand in Sudbury, Ont., Premier Kathleen Wynne told the court it was noble intentions that set in motion events that have resulted in charges of bribery against two Liberals – one from her inner circle. Similar good intentions, she told the media outside the courthouse after testifying, had brought her to the Big Nickel to set the record straight.
Those good intentions, and what voters think of them, are really what’s being judged here. The actual trial underway in the small Sudbury courtroom is about the narrow interpretation of the loosely worded Ontario Elections Act, the kind of thing that is so dull the Crown couldn’t even muster an attorney willing to stick the entire thing out. Vern Brewer, so mild and meek in speech that he’s continually asked to repeat himself, will retire before the case is complete.
But what is at stake in Sudbury has little to do with charges from a never before tested statute, and everything to do with the kind of leader Wynne promised she would be.
Defying the odds by skillfully dropping the heavy baggage of the McGuinty years, Wynne campaigned in 2014 on a promise of doing things differently. Dynamic leadership from Wynne combined with PC missteps put the Liberals back into majority, capturing seats that had eluded them for decades, with one standout failure. The long held Liberal bastion of Sudbury had gone orange.
The rest here.
https://globalnews.ca/news/3756503/kathleen-wynne-sudbury-byelection-trial-analysis/
