2013 Elections in Canada

[lilTommy]

Any idea where Kennedy will swing his "king maker" support?

In the end, it usually works best for the NDP anyway as per the last time he backed a winner

looks like a battle between the more Centre-right Pupatello and the Centre-left Wynne... everyone else will be blurred out, Murray is probably the first of the rest to drop (Kennedy will be the last if he even does)

[lilTommy]

Doesn't seem implausible to me: NDP can't vote for Grit budgets forever. However I'd think fall or perhaps early next year more likely.

The ONDP naturally cannot vote for Grit budgets "forever" - so far they have voted for exactly ONE - one year ago. But I suspect that unless Kathleen Wynne inserts some sort of a poison pill in the budget because she actually wants to engineer her own defeat - and I doubt that - the budget will probably be something the NDP can at least tolerate. No one wants an election now, all the parties are broke. If you're the NDP why not abstain, concentrate on winning the Windsor-Tecumseth and London West byelections and then look to an election another year down the road?

I might be wrong, but the ONDP from my memory abstained at the last budget. So in fact they haven't yet voted in support of an OLP budget. I remember cause an OLP friend of mine made a big stink about how they (OLP) gave the ONDP so many concessions then didn't vote for it.