The election against Mike Harris 's Conservative government was McGuinty's first "baptism by fire. However, Harris may inadvertently have done McGuinty a favour. During the next four years in opposition McGuinty worked to shed the "nerd" image that the Conservatives had helped to foster and developed a program of ideas that challenged prevailing Tory policies.
In the meantime the Tories were having serious troubles of their own. Public support for the Tory gospel of tax and spending cuts was falling, and the Walkerton scandal of appeared to spotlight dramatically the risk of such cuts to public welfare.
In April Harris stepped down and was replaced by his former finance minister, Ernie Eves. Over the next year the Tory government was plagued by a series of troubles, including power shortages and an outbreak of the SARS virus.
Going into the fall election, the Liberals were once again leading in the polls. McGuinty's well-organized campaign directly challenged eight years of Tory policies. He pledged, among other things, not to implement reductions in corporate and personal income taxes promised by the Conservatives and to boost the tax on corporations to its former level of 14 percent from 12 percent , and to increase spending on health care and education.
He also promised to rescind policies that favoured parents with children in private schools and to increase taxes on tobacco. Surprisingly, McGuinty's approach was supported across income and age groups. On 2 October , McGuinty led his party to a majority government - the first time the Liberals had defeated an incumbent Conservative government since Mitch Hepburn led the party to victory in It was also only the second time in half a century the last time was in that the Liberals had won an election outright.
The Liberals gained seats in every part of Ontario, including a majority in the Toronto area, leaving the Tories with a largely rural base. CKBW CKDJ The Coast Piikani Nation Radio CKSY CKUT CKUW Classic Rock Cool Coast John's Add this station to My Stations.
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Max Mix MIX Moose Moose FM - John Add this station to My Stations. As Ontario took a sharp right turn under Premier Mike Harris, the political centre has also moved right. Now the Opposition Liberals have chosen a leader who fits squarely in that new centre. He's a backbencher from Ottawa named Dalton McGuinty, a criminal lawyer who has condemned teachers' strikes but also spoken out against child poverty.
After defeating Gerard Kennedy, his left-leaning rival for the Liberal leadership, McGuinty's first task is to heal a rift in the party. It took five ballots before he finally emerged as the winner at a. The former director of Toronto's largest food bank and a newcomer to the party, Kennedy had won Bob Rae's old NDP seat in a by-election just six months earlier. In Mr. McGuinty they are appealing not to the underclass of the New Democrats A journalist asked McGuinty, "One of your first acts was to try and put your brother on the Queen's Park payroll Do you think you've demonstrated to Ontarians that you have the right stuff to be premier of this province?
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