TRILLIUM TALK: ‘Identity politics is dead and buried,’ in accordance with Bonnie Crombie

Each Sunday morning, certainly one of our legislative reporters from The Trillium offers an inside have a look at the week that was in Ontario politics — and the week forward

Welcome again to Trillium Speak, your must-see briefing from Village Media’s crew of journalists on the Ontario Legislature. 

Each Sunday, Scott Sexsmith sits down with certainly one of our staffers at The Trillium to speak in regards to the week that was at Queen’s Park — and the week forward.

On the present at this time is Editor-in-Chief Jessica Smith Cross, who breaks down the important thing findings of the auditor normal’s newest annual report — together with blunt criticisms of the Ontario Place redevelopment, the province’s outdated opioid technique, and the prevalence of minister’s zoning orders (MZOs).

In non-AG information, Ontario Liberal chief Bonnie Crombie delivered some sturdy phrases of her personal, telling the viewers at a significant fundraising dinner that the trail to beating Doug Ford is down the center.

“If we’re going to win, we have now to cease training the type of politics that makes common folks hate us,” Crombie advised the gang. “If the outcomes of the U.S. election educate us something, it is this: Id politics is lifeless and buried. We have to speak about and give attention to the issues which might be actually holding everybody down.”

Let the election hypothesis proceed.

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