Opinion: Leader Steven Del Duca, trailing Doug Ford and tied with Andrea Horwath in the polls, finds himself in a position similar to Justin Trudeau in 2015.
An election approaches for the leader of a Conservative government in the first term of a majority. He’s a divisive figure, but benefits from a divided opposition. The NDP leader enters the race as Opposition leader following a massive growth in seats in the last election. The Liberals, decimated in the last election, enter this one with a new leader themselves and the longest road ahead to victory.
For Steven Del Duca and the Ontario Liberals in 2022, there are lessons to be learned from the 2015 federal campaign if they want to return to a prominent place in Queen’s Park following this year’s provincial election.have been relatively consistent with Premier Doug Ford and the governing Progressive Conservative party showing a solid lead over the Ontario Liberals and the NDP.
In 2015, Trudeau’s Liberals kept their sights on the party they were trying to defeat, not the party they were trying to beat for second. Other than oneon the debate stage, Trudeau rarely came after Mulcair, keeping his focus on Harper’s record instead. . Their platform included the Canada child benefit, the Canada Infrastructure Bank, legalizing marijuana, electoral reform and a commitment to raise taxes on the wealthiest Canadians. The Liberals may not have reached all those goals yet, but how many parts of the NDP platform in 2015 does anyone remember?