Liberal victory in Ontario is a victory against 'cramped, mean notion of what government can do'

Source: Toronto Star
Editorial

Kathleen Wynne has pulled off an extraordinary political victory, one that has implications far beyond Ontario.

Despite the burden of past Liberal misdeeds and bungling, she has secured a majority mandate for her party and a personal mandate for herself as premier. It is a resounding tribute to her political skill and her own integrity, and it is well deserved.

More importantly, Wynne campaigned and won on an unabashedly progressive agenda, rejecting the rush to austerity promised by Tim Hudak’s Progressive Conservatives. Ontario’s voters had a rare chance to pass a straight-up judgment on two radically opposed visions of government. To their credit, they chose the more optimistic, constructive path.

This message should be heard across the country, and especially in Ottawa, where a cramped, mean notion of what government can do has been entrenched for the past eight years. The voters of Canada’s biggest province have made it clear that is not the path they want to travel.

Read more: http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2014/06/12/kathleen_wynnes_victory_sends_a_strong_message_editorial.html
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Once again, Kathleen Wynne settles the debate
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-votes-2014/ontario-election-2014-once-again-kathleen-wynne-settles-the-debate-1.2674369

... When former premier Dalton McGuinty stepped down, many Liberals approached Wynne, asking her to consider a run for the leadership of the party.

She did consider it and she ran, even though there were Liberals who privately worried that, while they liked the idea of a female leader, she could win the leadership but not the province in a general election because she is a lesbian.

With an open and impassioned convention speech, Wynne became Liberal leader — and last night, Ontario's first elected female premier.

Her choice to go public on what could have easily remained a private issue has now ended that debate.