I’m going to be honest, Bonnie Crombie throwing her hat into the ring convinced me to sign up to vote against her. Ontario does not need a Blue Liberal NIMBY today.
I’m going to be honest, Bonnie Crombie throwing her hat into the ring convinced me to sign up to vote against her. Ontario does not need a Blue Liberal NIMBY today.
Hopefully the new leader takes housing seriously.
It’s shaping up to be a two-horse race.
On the one hand you have Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie, who is running as a “Blue Grit” and campaigning on regret over the leftward shift under Wynne. Under her watch in Mississauga the city has repeatedly missed their housing targets, and the municipal government has constantly campaigned against Ford’s efforts to make them greenlight more housing as anti-democratic overreach.
On the other hand we have Federal MP Nate Erskine-Smith. Erskine-Smith is a policy-wonk type. The guy has a podcast and a substack. He’s an unrepentant YIMBY. If you follow Housing Twitter, the “upzone all the things!” types like him.
https://beynate.substack.com/p/build-dont-block
I mean, I have my bias… but yeah, this dichotomy is why I got a membership. The old-guard Boomer “we’ll vote for whoever if we think they can win” wing of the party is coalescing around Crombie.
Crombie will likely be an improvement over Ford, but I don’t think will be enough to repair the damage done after 8 years of #FordNation. Should the OLP win and not say ONDP, or … FSM forbid - Ford more years.
No kidding. And workers’ rights. Nate’s mentioned both in his trailer. We’ll see whether he gets the job or not and if he does, where his campaign goes by 2026. There’s too long till then. I’m hopeful that the ONDP might outpace the OLP by then anyways, but I’m not holding my breath.