“We don’t have a firm date,” Wynne said at a campaign-style stop in Windsor on Monday, where former finance minister Dwight Duncan stepped down as the MPP for Windsor-Tecumseh last month.
She called Windsor “the best-kept secret in the province.”
Wynne heads to London on Tuesday, where the riding of London West has been vacant since beleaguered former energy minister Chris Bentley resigned on Feb. 14.
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath also stops in London on Tuesday.
The Liberals aren’t ready in Windsor because the party doesn’t have a candidate now that Sandra Pupatello, the popular former Windsor West MPP who placed second to Wynne in the party’s leadership race in January, has declined to return to politics.
“I don’t even think the riding association knows exactly who is going to put their names forward,” Wynne told reporters.
A recent Forum Research poll suggested the NDP is poised to take Duncan’s seat without Pupatello running as a Liberal.
“It’s a riding that’s in play,” said New Democrat Taras Natyshak, MPP for neighbouring Essex, adding that he thought Wynne was “clearly feeling out the territory.”
While Wynne has until mid-August to call the two byelections, Queen’s Park insiders aren’t expecting any sudden moves with her minority Liberal government waiting to see if its spring budget passes, which would avert a provincial election.
There are rumblings that other Liberal MPPs, such as former premier Dalton McGuinty (Ottawa South), may resign after the budget, allowing Wynne to call a spate of byelections all at once.
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Source: thestar.com
Author: Rob Ferguson
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