Saturday, mid -morning. The blue glow of the tablet explains its sharp look. Surrounded by her close advisors, Andrea Horwath awaits a charter flight for her trip to northern Ontario. A colleague approached and suddenly raised his head.
The device has a mechanical problem. The chef’s face flushed.
Why, it’s really embarrassing.
The NDP leader, who has been striving to become Ontario’s premier for 13 years, has temporarily fallen from his seat. Another setback. He immediately pulled himself up and was swallowed by a Tambit chocolate.
It is too early for a New Democrat?, joking question of whoever gave him bad news. (The unofficial cocktail of the campaign is an orange gin and tonic.)
The grounded plane, is that a metaphor? The oldest campaign leader shrugged. A useful character trait to keep smiling in the face of the deluge of questions from journalists about his third position in the polls, his campaign that seems to be treading water and his political future if he is defeated.
Ms. wants to talk. Horwath is about dental care, the lack of care, the opioid crisis. In a hurry, his team set up near the tarmac at Pearson airport for scheduled press briefings in Sault-Sainte-Marie and Thunder Bay. You have to settle for Zoom.
Just over a week before, Ms. had another wrong start. Horwath for Northern Ontario: the same morning he tested positive for COVID-19. He had to isolate himself for a few days.
It was incredibly frustrating, because I was able to avoid COVID-19 for two and a half years, and then it hit me right in the middle of the campaign.he says. The first two days were horrible, I was bedridden.
Did you break the glass, pare? My unorthodox question is funny.
I admit to wondering if I wasn’t spelledhe went down.
Plan B : The kitchen
Surprise stop to Windsor, our new destination. The Horwath group is confident they can win the three constituencies that the Progressive Conservatives nearly won in 2018.
Kitchener South — Hespeler, where the NDP lost by less than 800 votes, Kitchener — Conestoga, the seat held by Mike Harris, the son of the former prime minister, and Cambridge, the home of New Blue Party co-founder Belinda Karahalios. The new Democrats are hoping the small right-wing party will cut enough votes from Doug Ford to allow them to interfere.
The three NDP candidates from the region are mothers. So they are in a good position to convince other mothers, one of the voters likely to move from one party to another, is excited by one of Ms.’s advisers. Horwath to me.
The chef was greeted by a dance party spontaneous of about thirty partisans. A woman, late forties, the apostrophe. His rent went up again, his salary was very low. He needs help. Mrs. nodded enthusiastically. Horwath and told him he was beats for people like him.
Analysts are united: it will be difficult for NDP to win on June 2nd.
But the Horwath team assures me that they will prove the polls wrong, even as contests are close by in the Toronto area, where NDP won seats in 2018. It is possible to earn 10 other riding, his advisors told me, for example in Ottawa West — Nepean and Brantford — Brant.
When I tried to talk about it with the chef, he said to leave the strategy to the strategists. He doesn’t read polls or opinion pieces. This is important for my mental health, he said bluntly. He didn’t even know his itinerary more than a day in advance.
Back on the coach, we were joined by Lady Gaga, Kim Mitchell and the Indigo Girls in Windsor.
Day 2: Windsor
Who left me this flower?, asked Andrea Horwath, more awake than us, who were riding the bus. He branded a small purple clematis that reporters accidentally missed a few seconds ago.
The sun is shining in the automobile realm and the chef will soon have more, again, health announcements. The dominant question, according to him.
First stop: Essex. If there’s one riding Doug Ford who wants to steal from the New Democrats, it’s this one. Outgoing MP Taras Natyshak did not stand. This is a personal matter: Mr. Natyshak has the ability to irritate the outgoing prime minister with his attack targets during interrogation.
But also, the victory in Essex would be a signal that the Progressive Conservatives would have won the bet to attract blue-collar workers, similar to what Boris Johnson did in the United Kingdom.
A long-term strategy, led by Labor Minister Monte McNaughton, that has slowly wooed construction unions and worked to promote and fund the training of trade-skilled workers.
Recently, Doug Ford flooded the investment region. The opening of the country’s first battery plant for electric vehicles, announced with great joy with Justin Trudeau before the campaign, will create 2,500 jobs by 2024. It’s not nothing.
Doug Ford ignored the place until recently, response to candidate and outgoing MP for Windsor West Lisa Gretzky. She knows something about it: her husband has been a worker at the Windsor assembly plant for more than 20 years.
When the factory threatened to remove the third shift, Doug Ford did not bother to answer calls or emails from the president of Unifor Local 444. When [l’usine d’aluminium] Nemak decided to close, Doug Ford did nothing. Andrea fought for these workers in the Legislative Assembly.
Her boss gives her an encouraging pat on the back.
After June 2
It’s all or nothing: if Ms. doesn’t win. Horwath on Thursday night, it’s hard to imagine he will remain the leader of the party where he has thrived since the 1990s. he refuses to think about the outcome of what he describes as the work of [sa] life.
Let the Ontario people decide on June 2. I will continue to fight until the last day. And when that day comes, I will accept the result.
I felt no disappointment in her voice. Serenity, perhaps.
Hours later, the campaign bus stopped outside Queen’s Park, the last stop for journalists. A cloudless twilight greeted us.
Andrea Horwath’s team greeted us and the vehicle continued, an orange flash at night.
Source: Radio-Canada
