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Executive Committee

Nicole Pereira - Chair
Cambridge Centre Honda So, I bet the current situation in Ontario Tory wanted to make every school pub-
chair@cambridgechamber.com
Stephen Witteveen - Past Chair Politics has got you thinking now! I’ve licly funded, and Tim Hudak, wow, two in
Pavey Law LLP been around the political game for years a row, the last maybe the worst. With 4
Terry Kratz - Treasurer
Hemmerich, Flanagan, Kratz, McRae & Wilson LLP and I have to say, never have I seen any- months to go before the election, he had
Uel McFall - Executive thing like what we are seeing play out about a 14-point lead and he managed to
Deltro Group
Cory McRae - Executive right before our eyes. A leaderless party only keep the Liberals to a minority gov-
Hemmerich, Flanagan, Kratz, McRae & Wilson LLP holding on to the lead, a fractured leader- ernment. Remember that campaign? “The
Lorne Wallace - Executive
Lone Wolf Technologies ship race, a controversial winner, yet still Million Jobs” campaign where the first
holding a very comfortable lead in the order of business was to terminate 100
Directors polls, however, those are just polls. Polls thousand Provincial Bureaucrats, I’m still
Mike Doersam - Vision Travel Solutions just generate hope for some, and concern trying to figure out how that message was
Darren Drouillard - Powerline Logistics Services Inc. for others, but in the end, it is election developed.
Sarah Colvin- ecobee, Inc.
Dr. John Tibbits - Conestoga College day’s poll that really matters.
Jason Warmington - Hallink RSB This latest implosion on that party has
Muuray Smith - The Achievement Centre So how did we get here? We probably written the book
have to understand that for on “The People vs Politics”.
the most part, once you’re It seems with or without a
Staff elected, your popularity, Leader, with a kind gentler
Greg Durocher - President & CEO more often than not starts leader or with a leader, let’s
president@cambridgechamber.com
to decline. You can’t please just say, who has an inter-
Scott Bridger - V.P. Membership Services and Engagement everyone, you can’t solve esting biography, seems the
Brandi Sinclair - Business Development Manager
Lisa Durocher - V.P. Marketing, Events and Member Enrichment everybody’s problems, and foot-hold of change is in the
Melissa Davidson -Event Enrichment Manager the media is, for obvious wind. That is the beauty of
Hayley Davidson - Member Enrichment Advocate
Jeanette Mahoney - Visitor Services Supervisor reasons, tougher on the democracy, just when you
Donna Gravelle - Physician Recruitment elected than the non-elect- think you’ve got this all fig-
doctors4cambridge.com
ed. The old saying is so very ured out, the People set you
true, you are never elected “INTO” office, straight.
you are voted out!
Spectrum is published four times per year by the Cambridge So, what turns this tide so abruptly that
Chamber of Commerce and distributed to all Chamber members.
Opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and With that in mind, the Liberal Government the average Ontario voter would be will-
do not necessarily reflect the policy of the Cambridge Chamber of
Commerce, Spectrum, its publishers or employees. The Chamber has been running things at Queens Park ing to vote for a party who didn’t even
cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions that may
occur in this publication. The sale of advertising space in Spectrum for nearly 15 years now, that is quite a run have a leader. In fact, this was so odd,
does not constitute endorsement by the Chamber. Spectrum reserves
the right to edit any material submitted. actually, and probably if the PC’s hadn’t the parties polling went up when Pat-
shot themselves in the foot over the last rick Brown stepped down in late January
Find us on: three elections, they might be running over alleged inappropriate behaviour, the
things. In the last three elections the PC’s PC’s were actually more favoured with-
Cambridge Chamber twitter.com/My_Chamber were favoured to win a Majority Govern- out a leader. I should think, this might
of Commerce
ment within months of election day and be a very clear message to the governing
Design & Layout Printed by: some how, were able to snatch defeat out party, that, well the party is over, no pun
of the jaws of victory. The last time this intended. This just proves that everyone
Province was run by the PC’s it was Mike has a best before date, and everyone date
Harris. I recall his first win with a major- comes up. However, it is early, too early to
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ity, “The Common-Sense Revolution”, a make defined assumptions, the Union’s
Printing of the Spectrum complies with: masterful campaign, from third to first in who actually carried the election for M.
about 4 weeks. So, what got him the win Wynne the last go-round, are very pow-
and successors to follow couldn’t do it. erful in Ontario, in fact have notoriously
Ernie Eve’s, blundered the hydro file, John been more supportive of Liberal govern-

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