Will John Tory’s ‘prudent’ leadership be tough enough to tackle Toronto’s big issues if he’s re-elected?
He’s running to lead the Conservative Party, so what a campaign he is.
The Ontario premier who faced a leadership challenge from Rob Ford, who is now dead, is running with a vision for the party and a message about what is going to happen in the coming years. His campaign includes a focus on housing first, investing in small businesses and putting the middle class and the poor ahead of the wealthiest among us. It’s a strategy the party desperately needs if it is to reverse the economic crisis that is tearing Canada apart today.
Toronto is Toronto, a city which is the cultural, political, economic, social and global centre of our country. I watched Tory in the debate with Michael Chong on CTV this afternoon and I was impressed with his vision. In fact, he is a vision in which I will believe in the year ahead and not only believe in, but vote for. Tory is a leader who has got what it takes, in all the right ways.
“While I’ve never been a person to shy away from controversy, the one thing that unites us is our support for Canadian family values and our commitment to helping create a world that’s kinder, fairer and more just,” Tory said in a statement. “Family is the bedrock of Canada’s national identity, and we must all work together to preserve what precious values we have as a country.”
Tory is running on a platform which sounds very much like the one he talked about a couple weeks ago when in his first leadership debate with Tom Mulcair, he vowed that there will be no carbon tax, no tax on any Canadian’s income or anything the federal government would introduce in Canada.
“I will not be a Conservative leader who will be a liar and a cheat,” he said.
Tory said that he’s not a fan of the Conservative Party’s current leader, Michael Ignatieff, but it’s clear that he believes in him. He even said that although Ignatieff would be a good leader
