Lisa Gretzky is the last New Democrat standing west of London, Ont., surrounded by a sea of Progressive Conservative blue.
And now her Windsor West seat is under threat as the Progressive Conservatives target that region of southwestern Ontario in this election, hoping to complete the push that started years ago to turn union-backed NDP strongholds blue.
Gretzky said the main concerns she's hearing from voters are about the state of health care, housing, the affordability crisis and the threat of tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump, who is targeting Ontario's auto sector. After an NDP query about construction workers' unpaid wages during question period in mid-December, then-labour minister David Piccini unloaded on Gretzky.
The PCs have been coming for seats in the region. In 2007, all ridings in London and every riding southwest of the city were Liberal, save for a lone blue seat in Sarnia-Lambton held by Bob Bailey. Insiders and pundits credit former Progressive Conservative labour minister Monte McNaughton, who represented the Lambton-Kent-Middlesex riding, for thawing relations with unions as part of his broader strategy to woo blue collar workers.
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