Ontario made the right call in voting out Liberals, interim leader says
TORONTO — The interim leader of Ontario’s struggling Liberals said Saturday that voters made the “right call” in stripping them of their power — and official party status — in the last provincial election.
John Fraser, who was one of only seven Liberals to win a seat in June’s vote that gave Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives a majority government, told the Ontario Liberal Provincial Council the party must acknowledge and learn from its mistakes.
“The truth is last June voters told us in pretty unequivocal terms, they’d had enough of us. That after 15 years, they wanted change,” Fraser said.
“They put us in the penalty box. Time will tell for how long. And, frankly, they made the right call.”